Ashlee Simpson has reportedly been cast to star on the new CW remake of Melrose Place. So just in case you were thinking the show wasn't going to suck, now you can rest assured that it will.

The singer-actress has been tapped as a lead on the CW's "Melrose" update, returning to series television seven years after landing her breakthrough role on the WB's "7th Heaven."

On the CBS Par-produced "Melrose," Simpson-Wentz will play Melrose Place's newest resident, Violet, a bright-eyed but shrewd small-town girl and recent L.A. transplant who has come to town with a secret.

Her character draws parallels to the original series' blond, budding-Southern-belle starlet, Sandy Harling (Amy Locane). (The Hollywood Reporter)

I don't know what's more ridiculous, casting Ashlee Simpson as a lead actress or the fact that they're now doing another remake of a trashy 90's television show. Soon they'll start remaking shows that no longer make cultural sense, like The Jeffersons, except they'll put a twist on it and it'll be about a black descendant of Thomas Jefferson who is elected President and has to put up with all of the old racist white senators in Washington. Actually, that would be way better than another Melrose Place. If this trend continues they're going to have to put a colon after the HOLLYWOOD sign and then "OUT OF IDEAS" right beneath it.