Last week, the CW gave the official go ahead for the new Melrose Place pilot episode.  The pilot was co-written by the Smallville producers Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin and will be directed by Davis Guggenheim, director of Al Gore’s award winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”.

Announcements are now being made as new cast members are selected.  The first announcement out the door is Michael Rady, from Swingtown and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  Rady will play Jonah Miller, an aspiring filmmaker a la Kevin Smith who really just spends his days as a video monkey for the rich, shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs.  This kind of reminds me of Billy in the original who was an aspiring writer.

Next, we have Katie Cassidy, recently seen in the movie Taken, daughter of David Cassidy (yes,from The Partridge Family).  Katie Cassidy will be playing Ella Flynn.  Ella is apparently an up and coming publicist and sexually confused sometimes lover of the much anticipated David Patterson character, son of Jake Hanson from the original series.

SWEET!  I can't wait to see who is next.