Amanda Woodward is back. And her claws are sharper than ever.

Starting tonight, Heather Locklear reprises her role as the iconic bad girl on CW’s remake of Melrose Place (9 ET/PT). And as a PR firm partner, she’s ready to school junior publicist Ella Simms (Katie Cassidy) on the rules of the road.

Though both actresses say they’re not real-life vixens (they prefer slippers to stilettos), give them a short skirt and throw in a couple of ice-cold lines, and the pair embodies the femme fatale. Here Locklear and Cassidy reveal their rules of workplace etiquette, vixen-style.

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Katie has finally joined the Twitterverse and you can follow her updates at MzKatieCassidy!

Also, don’t forget to watch the second episode of Melrose Place tonight on the CW!

Melrose Place made its long-awaited comeback this week, and it proved to be just as steamy as the original. Not that much of the cast remembers the original.

“For the most part, this cast has no connection to the other one,” Laura Leighton, who’s reprising her role as the scandalous Sydney Andrews, admits in the fall TV preview issue of Entertainment Weekly. “They never miss any opportunity to tell me that they weren’t even old enough to watch the original show. Katie [Cassidy, sitting above] turned to me the other day and said, ‘So were you, like, on the old one?’ I have to keep my sense of humor intact because it’s been a series of humiliations, really.”

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, who turns 25 in October, admits she was too young to catch it the first time around, too. “I never really watched shows like this until I was pregnant,” says the singer-actress. “But they’re so much fun — they’re part of American culture.”

Source: NY Daily News

Screencaps from Tuesday’s episode of Melrose Place are in the gallery. What did you think? I really liked Katie’s character!

Katie Cassidy, Melrose Place
David Cassidy’s daughter will ditch Harper’s Island and her brunette locks for sun-kissed California blonde on Melrose Place. The actress, Supernatural‘s original Ruby, plays Ella Simms, a ruthless publicist who’s looking to be MP 2.0′s Amanda Woodward.

Don’t forget to tune into The CW and watch the first episode of Melrose Place 2.0 which stars our Katie Cassidy as Ella Simms!

The show airs at 9PM, right after 90210 – check your local listings!

And be sure to return again tomorrow for screencaptures of the pilot!

This fall, the CW network celebrates its third birthday by throwing its inner 18-year-old girl the best TV party ever.

When the CW’s 2009-2010 season debuts next week, there will be no comedies on the agenda, no grown-up outsiders on Sundays, and no grubby guys anywhere. From the returning “Gossip Girl” and “America’s Next Top Model” to the debuts of “The Beautiful Life, “The Vampire Diaries” and the “Melrose Place” remake, the network’s prime-time schedule is all pretty young people all the time.

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The gallery has been updated with the latest Ella / Melrose Place images. Melrose Place is scheduled to premiere on September 8, 2009 on the CW.