Help! Save Katie Cassidy From ‘Melrose Place’

How’s this for today’s controversy: someone needs to save Katie Cassidy from the sinking ship of television misery that is Melrose Place. Anyone, really. As social climbing junior publicist (and bitch-tastic Amanda Woodward protégé) Ella, she is by far the only bright point in an otherwise pointless hour of television. She’s impossibly gorgeous (we’d hate her if she wasn’t so awesome), and the best actress on the show. (Though when you’re playing against Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, that could be considered a backhanded compliment.) She deserves so much better than the ill-conceived Melrose Place reboot can ever give her.

Only 1.2 million people watched Melrose on Tuesday night. That’s as if the entire population of Dallas, the country’s ninth-largest city, watched the show. Conversely, American Idol, which won the night, had 22.8 million viewers. That’s as if the entire population of Dallas, plus the populations of the first- through eighth-largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and San Antonio) watched the show. In other words: Dismal. Horrendous. Horrific. You get the idea.

If the show is wisely cancelled, which we hope it will be, Katie’s schedule will be freed up for more worthy projects. But for now, Melrose is like Jack Dawson from Titanic: We loved it once, and we’ll never let go (metaphorically), but we have got to pry its icy grip from Katie Cassidy before she goes down with it.

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