The CW Picks Up Melrose Place, Vampire Diaries, Beautiful Life

The CW has given series pickups to three dramas, Melrose Place, Vampire Diaries and The Beautiful Life, in advance of its 2009 Fall Lineup presentation.

The Melrose Place reboot was written by Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer. Like the original Melrose Place which aired on Fox in the 1990’s, the series revolves around a group of twentysomethings who live in a L.A. apartment complex, but with a murder mystery twist right from the get-go.

With Vampire Diaries, based on Alloy’s series of books about a small-town teenage girl in a love triangle with two vampire brothers, the network hopes to catch the vampire pop culture wave ignited by the success of Twilight and HBO’s True Blood. Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec wrote the pilot, based on the book series by L.J. Smith.

Beautiful Life revolves around a group of up and coming models in Gotham. The show was written by Adam Giaudrone and is executive produced by Mike Kelley and Carol Barbee.

The CW has the Gossip Girl spinoff, Light Years and Life Unexpected in consideration for midseason.