By: Vlada Gelman
This fall, the CW will reboot MELROSE PLACE with a whole new crop of fresh faces, but the series won’t be without some familiar faces too.
Laura Leighton’s Sydney is back to stir up trouble despite having died at the end of the original series’ fifth season.
“In episode three, we will take you back to that night and how it came about that she lived,” executive producer Todd Slavkin said at a recent Q&A for the new series.
“It was really important to have Sydney and Michael. They were the star-crossed lovers of that original series,” Slavkin said of Sydney’s resurrection. “When we went after them, we knew we had this albatross of she died in the original, but we felt like it was worth it. We convinced Laura that we have this great plan that she faked her death.”
And it looks like Sydney may have had some help.
“Something tells me she didn’t do it alone,” Slavkin teased.