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History repeats itself. Everything old is new again. You know the drill.

Those cliches are about as tired as TV and movie remakes, but they just keep on coming.

The CW has officially given the green light to yet another Fox rehash, "Melrose Place," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Our own Tracy Phillips already dropped the news last month that Ryan Eggold would likely be leaving the CW's current remake of "90210," where he plays teacher Ryan Matthews. There's still no word on the return of Heather Locklear to the new version, but Eggold said he thought she'd do it.

THR reports Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim will helm the new "Melrose," and he will serve as an executive producer along with Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin, who wrote the original series. Guggenheim is known mostly for darker and more dramatic work, like "Deadwood," "24" and "NYPD Blue," but earlier in his career he worked on lighter dramas, such as "Party of Five" and "Sisters." He won his Oscar for Al Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

In other remake/import news, THR also reports that Fox has cast Zosia Mamet, the daughter of writer David Mamet ("The Unit") to star in its remake of the British comedy, "Absolutely Fabulous."

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