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Courtney Thorne-Smith as "Alison." Andrew Shue as "Billy." Thomas Calabro as "Michael." Josie Bissett as "Jane." Doug Savant as "Matt." Grant Show as "Jake." Heather Locklear as "Amanda." Marcia Cross as "Kimberly." Laura Leighton as "Sydney." The place must be...Melrose Place
Those are just some of the names among the great cast of Fox Network's hot soap of the 90's, and fans have been waiting to get DVDs of this since TV-on-DVD took off. Now, it looks like their wish is Paramount's command!
Yesterday's edition of The Wall Street Journal (2/23/05, Section B) had a story by Merissa Marr and Joe Flint entitled "DVDs Are Finally Paramount." The article explains that previous management figures had a strategy of bringing titles - film and TV based - to DVD in a slow and steady fashion, and that new management in place now has a different plan of increasing the studio's revenue by way of cutting loose on the library.
Much of this has been reported already, at the time that the executives did their shuffle in recent months, and it wasn't exactly news we could use here at TVShowsOnDVD because no actual titles were brought up. But the Wall Street Journal story is naming names!
Mentioned in the story are a number of shows that Paramount intends to release in the near future, in order to drive their profits and therefore the stock value at parent Viacom. Melrose Place is mentioned as being among the titles they are planning to release, albeit later than some of the others talked aout in the story.
Nothing along the lines of a timeline was given, though, nor any other details. We're just happy here to know it's in the works...I was addicted to that show when it first aired, and I'll be grateful to finally get it on DVD. We know you'll be, too. Stay tuned for more!
  
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