Grant Show InterviewTVGuide.com: When you and I did that Swingtown video Q&A months ago, I joked — joked — about the CW pulling a 90210 and "rebooting" Melrose Place....
Show: [Laughs] And here it is! It all makes sense, though, doesn't it?
TVGuide.com: I even suggested Jake as "the sage pool cleaner." Have any exploratory phone calls come your way yet?
Show: No. I play golf with one of the executives at the CW, and I was on the 18th green and he was on the 9th. He goes, "Hey! Do you want to come on Melrose Place?" I said, "Hey, do you have $150,000 an episode?" He said no, so I go, "There's your answer!"
TVGuide.com: The original 90210 cast seemed to be of two minds: "Count me in!" or, "Not on a bet." Where do you fall with the new Melrose?
Show: Kind of neither. I don't think I want to do it. I don't think they need me. I'd just be "the old guy" on the show, and that's not the kind of thing I want to do. If it was something other than that, maybe I would.
TVGuide.com: See, I don't think the CW thought they'd ever need the "old" 90210 people. But once they saw that's what got the buzz, they had to realize, "This is our bread-and-butter, not the kids."
Show: As far as selling the show, yeah, it would help to have some of the original cast. But as far as work on a day-to-day basis, I wouldn't want my character to be there to support a bunch of kids. That said, if there was no contract and I could go off and do anything else I wanted to do....
TVGuide.com: And maybe if Heather Locklear also came back....
Show: Yeah. [Laughs] It's a possibility, but right now I'd have to say no. I absolutely love working with the Private Practice cast — they're all really good actors, the writing's fun, and I get to play this rakish cad — so I'm looking forward to doing more of that.
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