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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 112793" data-attributes="member: 673">I think FOX would&#039;ve stuck with the show&#039;s original tone and setup. In the mid-90&#039;s, CBS was the home of older skewing fare like Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder and Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. They were hungry for a younger audience and hoped that Central Park West would do the trick. When it failed to attract the numbers they hoped for, they panicked and tried to pull in their older viewers by shifting the focus to older characters like Allen &amp; Linda, who were previously on the sidelines, and the new arrived Adam &amp; Dianna. I don&#039;t think FOX would&#039;ve done a retool to that extreme. They might&#039;ve dropped a few characters like they did in the early stages of Melrose Place but I reckon they would&#039;ve kept the tone young.Regarding Mariel&#039;s departure, she apparently had an option to leave after the first thirteen episodes and she used this option. I&#039;m guessing she saw that Stephanie would be sidelined following the retool and decided to leave. If you watch the revamped episodes, the focus shifted to the Brock family while the likes of Rachel, Nikki, Alex and Peter often felt like spare parts being written into corners. I&#039;m guessing that Mariel didn&#039;t want to become one of those spares. Alternatively, being the biggest name on the show, Mariel may have gotten the chop to make way for the incoming Raquel&#039;s salary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 112793, member: 673"] I think FOX would've stuck with the show's original tone and setup. In the mid-90's, CBS was the home of older skewing fare like [I]Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder [/I]and[I] Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. [/I]They were hungry for a younger audience and hoped that [I]Central Park West[/I] would do the trick. When it failed to attract the numbers they hoped for, they panicked and tried to pull in their older viewers by shifting the focus to older characters like Allen & Linda, who were previously on the sidelines, and the new arrived Adam & Dianna. I don't think FOX would've done a retool to that extreme. They might've dropped a few characters like they did in the early stages of Melrose Place but I reckon they would've kept the tone young. Regarding Mariel's departure, she apparently had an option to leave after the first thirteen episodes and she used this option. I'm guessing she saw that Stephanie would be sidelined following the retool and decided to leave. If you watch the revamped episodes, the focus shifted to the Brock family while the likes of Rachel, Nikki, Alex and Peter often felt like spare parts being written into corners. I'm guessing that Mariel didn't want to become one of those spares. Alternatively, being the biggest name on the show, Mariel may have gotten the chop to make way for the incoming Raquel's salary. [/QUOTE]

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