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UPDATE: Tori Spelling To Join Jennie Garth For CW's New 90210!! ‘We’re Going To Take This Show To A Whole New Level!!’

Published at:  May 20, 2008 5:17:26 PM CDT

I am – Hercules!!

UPDATE!! Wanda Two Saints over at E! reports Tori Spelling is joining Jennie Garth for The CW's 90210 sequel, and that somebody named Ian Ziering wants in too. Read it all here.



The original “Beverly Hills 90210” was so poorly written even the series’ surfeit of fabulous young actresses could not keep me tuned in. Darren Star, who created the show, turned out to be the hackiest hack in hackdom. The show's enduring popularily continues to confound me.

Mind you, I thought perfectly viable the concept of following around a bunch of high school kids with more money than God.



A few months ago we got word that Rob Thomas, who created and oversaw two truly great series – “Cupid” and “Veronica Mars” – was creating a sequel to “90210” for The CW.

But when the CW announced its fall schedule last week, Thomas’ name was not on the press release. Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah, who rewrote Thomas’ pilot, are to serve as “90210” showrunners.



Sachs and Judah were on the writing staff of the short-lived and Judd Apatow-steered “Freaks and Geeks,” one of the funniest shows about high school ever forged.



But then Sachs and Judah went off on their own to oversee “Life As We Know It,” a shorter-lived high school hourlong I, for one, didn’t like nearly as much as “Freaks and Geeks.”

The crazy grandma from “Arrested Development” plays the horny grandma in the new show. The hot girl from “Full House” plays a hot mom. The kid who played Michael in the last two seasons of “The Wire” plays the adopted son of a rich guy.

See if the promo, which seems to contain zero footage from any episode, inspires anticipation or disdain:






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    Readers Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:11:55 PM CDT

    no subject

    by jbouganim1

    fuck this show

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  • May 19, 2008 4:12:10 PM CDT

    FIRST by the way

    by jbouganim1

  • May 19, 2008 4:12:30 PM CDT

    9021NO

    by arcadiands

    stupid idea. cancelled in 3 weeks

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:15:52 PM CDT

    Why, God, Why?!

    by sithdan

    Whyyyyyy????

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:16:18 PM CDT

    This is cool news because..........?

    by grando

    Really, I'm all out. Ideas anyone?

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:17:50 PM CDT

    bleh

    by snizitch

    like that needed to be brought back :(

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:26:25 PM CDT

    more like aintitGAYnews

    by mr.meanie

    am i rite?

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:26:30 PM CDT

    This show...

    by jimmy rabbitte

    ...will be gone in less than six episodes.

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 4:34:23 PM CDT

    I hate it already.

    by iammrmonkey!

    If I met any of these "wild!" "hip!" "independant" "fun-loving!" people then I'd instantly want to mow them down in the street with the biggest truck I could find.

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  • May 19, 2008 4:45:19 PM CDT

    i wonder...

    by bouncy x

    while they're using the old theme all over this thing, that it either wont be used at all for the actual show or they'll pull a knight rider and just use those first few bars and then it'll turn into some generation y type music thing.

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  • May 19, 2008 4:46:02 PM CDT

    Um...yeah

    by mnoelio

    How many cliches can one show have? At least it will be sexier and have storylines that are ALL intriguing with every character having a secret! Simply amazing. This will be mindblowing entertainment I am sure. Also, what the hell was with that gay slapping of the hands in the beginning? Do people still have sercet handshakes? My god...

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  • May 19, 2008 4:46:34 PM CDT

    I want to hate this sooo much...

    by ravex

    but just hearing that 90210 theme takes me back to when I was 11 and beverly hills was the coolest thing on tv.
    and jennie garth. my gods, jennie garth...
    so, damn you nostalgia, damn you to hell!

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  • May 19, 2008 4:50:10 PM CDT

    Sweet Jesus "Eden!"

    by red1701

    the slutty jail bait from Nip Tuck is in this show....NICE! that girl just wants to take her clothes off!

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  • May 19, 2008 4:50:13 PM CDT

    ANOTHER show like this?!?

    by playkins

    Yeah, good move CW, there TOTALLY aren't enough shows like this already. Just what I was afraid of, this making the original look tame.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Because now I might have to watch a few episodes.

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  • May 19, 2008 4:53:36 PM CDT

    I want to hate it too. I don't agree with most remakes.

    by happybunni

    I wonder how this will survive in an OC world? This has a good chance of failing miserably. As long as they create a world that people wish they were involved in, and heavily deveoped characters that people wish they knew, it could do well.

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  • May 19, 2008 5:03:17 PM CDT

    This will be AWESOME!!!

    by knowitallfuckhead

    I'm going to watch this with a constant flow of beer and laugh my ass off

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  • May 19, 2008 5:06:31 PM CDT

    Ease up on the links

    by jinxo

    Okay, I am all for pimping the Amazon links to help make a little $$$ for the site. And on the New DVD release articles they can even be a nice help to head right over and order them asap. But this was crazy. Every time a show comes up in the piece you throw a huge intrusive link up right in the middle of what you're saying? Made it really annoying to try to read. I mean, you get a good head of steam going on what you're saying then HUGE INTRUSIVE LINK. Then you're back for as little as a sentence saying, "Then they worked on Crazy Teen Paradise." Then we get the giant link for that. And on and on. How about holding the links until the end or using some that are less intrusive. I know they are supposed to be doubling as article illustrations and not looking blatantly like ad links but they are just so intrusive.

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  • May 19, 2008 5:07:21 PM CDT

    ashoko

    by slkboxrman

    i dont know what ur smoking , but i hope ur sharing.... if u think this crap will even come close to killing LOST u must be retarded...even being bored couldnt get me thru even one minute of that 2 minute preview...id rather slit my wrists then watch the rest of it... i agree with those that say it will be cancelled after 3 weeks...the name 90210 wont save this vomit inducing crap...to me its just another "one tree hill" with rich kids instead of semi-rich kids..."all the characters have secrets" lemme guess theyre all whores ? theyre all gonna sleep with everyone on the show eventually...i dont understand the interest in the fictional lives of snobby rich kids at a high school....the original was horribly written as the reviewer said before just like 7th heaven and they kept that on the air way too long....even tho most of the world knew people didnt act like that family in real life....so knowing the WB/CW they prob will keep this on the air even if the rating suck

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  • May 19, 2008 5:07:55 PM CDT

    jennie garth

    by dradis contact

    they do know how to manipulate me

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  • May 19, 2008 5:16:31 PM CDT

    Never watched 90210

    by buffywrestling

    or Melrose Place. The Freaks and Geeks cred is nice but I don't know if it is enough to get me to tune in.

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  • May 19, 2008 5:23:35 PM CDT

    I'm sure this is Cool..

    by shogunmaster

    If you're a teenage girl. Gotta admit that Shanae Grimes does make my nethers' tingle though...

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  • May 19, 2008 5:24:27 PM CDT

    Run! Its the 7th sign of the Apocolypse!

    by machthree

    I mean really, could anything be more catastrophic to today's youth than a remake of Beverly Hills Freakin Nine-Oh-Two-One-Oh why me?

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  • May 19, 2008 5:25:16 PM CDT

    slkboxrman...

    by ravex

    epic fail dude.
    EPIC!

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 5:25:26 PM CDT

    She expresses her fierce independents

    by quin the eskimo

    by eating her own tampons. It's her way of saying FUCK OFF REPUBLICANS!

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  • May 19, 2008 5:27:46 PM CDT

    My god

    by bod33

    Why is this site plugging this piece of utter shit.

    There are far to many of these type of shows on tv anyway. No more please.

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  • May 19, 2008 5:36:29 PM CDT

    You people slam all Star Wars, the New Indy and more and think t

    by crankyoldguy

    This show was terrible then and it'll be just as awful now. The only good thing to come out of was the f-me in every orifice-look of Shannon D., and that wasn't until Charmed., anyway.
    Garth sexy? Please. Maybe cute, but that's it. Is this because you were all 12-14 then? How could anyway sit through the show? I'd flip by in the day and couldn't last a minute. And as someone able said, this is in NO WAY COOL NEWS. THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING 'COOL' ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SHOW YOU MORONS. Cool things in the 90s including Brisco County Jr., All things Whedon (on into the early part of this decade), and so on. But NOT 90210 or Melrose Place, for that matter. They were better than all 90s Trek? Stargate? What are you people doing on this site if you think 90210 was EVER good or worse important. If you liked it, then you likely have no male genetalia as pre-marriage, I knew only WOMEN who liked it. So if some of you posting are female, you get a little slack, but the show was and still is for idiots.

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  • May 19, 2008 5:41:20 PM CDT

    I'm glad they pointed out how cool they are.

    by pops freshemeyer

    Or will be. Or whatever. That was pretty damn whatever the opposite of cool is. And don't forget hip. This will be the opposite of cool and completely non-hip. The broad from Degrassi is pretty cute though...

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  • May 19, 2008 6:05:51 PM CDT

    dumb asses shoulda grabbed all of the cast of degrassi

    by bacci40

    not just shenae, that skanky ho...oh, and way to go casting 20 somethings as teenagers....christ, are they ever gonna get this right? shenae cute??? she already has side boob pics on the net...according to someone from her acting class, she thought that getting on degrassi meant sure death for future roles (this was before she landed the gig)hey shenae....guess what, its gonna be your first gig on an american show that kills your future...this looks like some serious crap...but make laughlin go topless and maybe ill think about watching it online

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  • May 19, 2008 6:14:28 PM CDT

    the tag line

    by spacekicker2001

    made me want to shoot someone...if you want to live in the zip you got to live by the code...LOLOLOL

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  • May 19, 2008 6:20:17 PM CDT

    for the love of thor, eden's in this!

    by holodigm

    may our penises rejoice!

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  • May 19, 2008 6:25:42 PM CDT

    if i read lots of posts about how cute shenae is

    by bacci40

    im gonna fucking scream...wanna see cute? go check pics of cassie steele or miriam mcdonald...and its beyond me how both deana casaluce and stacie mistysin are now residing in los angeles and do not have roles on this show...these fuckers are totally missing the core audience factor here...degrassi will have its final year next season...best time to start grabbing audience...

    Reply to Talkback

  • May 19, 2008 6:29:25 PM CDT

    Prediction: Highest ratings for a show on CW

    by tehbigivan

    Followed by largest audience drop-off.

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  • May 19, 2008 6:35:43 PM CDT

    Why not...

    by wickedjester

    ....just have all the original 90210 people move into Melrose Place and be done with it?

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  • May 19, 2008 6:50:05 PM CDT

    got about 17 seconds into that promo....

    by chromedome

    ...could feel my life-force being drained, and my brain getting sucked out thru my ear.Fortunately, I stopped it just in time!Fortunately, I stopped it just in time!Fortunately, I stopped it just in time!Fortunately, I stopped it just in time!Fortunately, I stopped it just in time!

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  • May 19, 2008 6:52:17 PM CDT

    This makes me want to...

    by smact_again

    surgically remove the top portion of my skull with a dull Ginsu and slowly prod it with Tom Cruise's RayBan alien probing spectacles. Really... do any of these actors look like they could be in high school? I need to vomit now.

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  • May 19, 2008 6:57:35 PM CDT

    Wow. That was painful.

    by zerocorpse

    It was more by-the-numbers bullshit than I've seen in some of the worst promos.
    "Not your typical grandma." -- gag me. The whole thing played out like someone decided to take The Real World and cross-pollinate it with 90210, throwing in character archetypes that were designed by committee, approved by polling random teenagers in a mall in Malibu, and then re-submitted to the marketing department to design the "look" and "feel" of the characters so they'd fit on lunchboxes and t-shirts properly marketed at the 14-24 year-old demographic.
    They'll probably tie it into a text-messaging promotion of some sort (Text "SLUT" to "90210" to vote for Annie Mills spend the night with the cute guy she met. Text "BITCH" to have her best friend steal him away.) and the show will have LOTS of commercials (every 5 minutes, I'm thinking) which ALL suffer from a mini-cliffhanger and music swell before the break, followed by a lame continuation/resolution for the mini-cliffhanger followed by more posturing, posing, and preening.
    This looks like everything I hated about preppies when I was a teenager, thrown into a blender with a bag of Skittles and a Hollywood marketing firm, and set to frappe for 20 minutes.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:00:29 PM CDT

    CAN'T F'N WAIT!!!

    by skidmarkedundies

    Oh, this isn't the Crystal Skull talkback? IT'S FOR 90210!!!

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  • May 19, 2008 7:00:55 PM CDT

    Crankyoldguy...

    by zerocorpse

    Whedon was NEVER, EVER cool.
    . . .unless you're under 35, in which case your name isn't very appropriate.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:04:38 PM CDT

    Question: Didn't they try this already . . .

    by skidmarkedundies

    with the OC? We all saw how that turned out. Also, which one is supposed to be the bad boy rebel Dylan McKay-esque character? They all look like doofuses that Verne Troyer could beat up blindfolded.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:08:47 PM CDT

    The show's enduring popularily continues to confound me.

    by sylareatsbrains

    Do you mean 90210 or Buffy? Ba-dum ching.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:18:32 PM CDT

    Where

    by pennsy

  • May 19, 2008 7:19:04 PM CDT

    Where's the Gossip Girl talkback?

    by pennsy

  • May 19, 2008 7:19:12 PM CDT

    ZeroCorpse and SylarEatsBrains, you officially suck

    by willowfan2001

    And I can't understand why Herc didn't spooge all over this show. I do believe I caught a glimpse or two of that high school in Torrance that served as the face for Sunnydale High. That alone should have sent Herc's heart into overdrive.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:19:42 PM CDT

    90210-INO! 90210-INO! 90210-INO! 90210-INO!

    by pennsy

    In name only!

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  • May 19, 2008 7:24:40 PM CDT

    chromedome

    by slkboxrman

    me too, it was like being sucked into a black hole....i almost didnt escape the suckage....and RAVER X... was that a comment on how this show will do ?? "epic fail" ??

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  • May 19, 2008 7:27:22 PM CDT

    that trailer

    by alex138

    made me fucking puke. I can't believe that kid went from Michael on The Wire to this shit. He needs to get a new agent.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:33:05 PM CDT

    I thought that was a SNL sketch at first

    by slappy jones

    That was hilarious. especially when the voice over says "more provocative" and they cut to a girl in a pool with her head between a guys legs. That is fucking funny.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:33:54 PM CDT

    Georgina Sparks must go down, and she must go down hard.

    by pennsy

    You know you hate her; XOXO. ;)

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  • May 19, 2008 7:34:07 PM CDT

    Where Everyone has a Secret...

    by bradyboulanger

    Annie Mills is a Cylon.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:36:29 PM CDT

    Disdain...

    by digitalcos

    definitely disdain.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:36:47 PM CDT

    Huge!

    by pogue mahone

    This will rock. Hahahaha! If it's half as cheesy as the original then I'll tune in for a few episodes if for nothing other than nostalgia and brain candy...

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  • May 19, 2008 7:37:32 PM CDT

    Georgina is a fantastic bad guy though

    by slappy jones

    the show was getting a little to nice. even chuck bass had been neutered a little bit. Once Blair and Serena became friends again all the nastiness stopped so the past few weeks have been great. You have to have a villain.

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  • May 19, 2008 7:41:12 PM CDT

    "Whole New Level"

    by chromedome

    Whole new LOW level

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  • May 19, 2008 7:42:10 PM CDT

    Shenae Grimes: new Degrassi, new 90210, what's next?

    by flim springfield

    Dawson's Creek?

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  • May 19, 2008 7:44:46 PM CDT

    omg....that is michael

    by bacci40

    wtf???? from a cutting edge dramatic role to poor black kid, saved by great white father...the michael i know woulda already fucked half the cast and then out a cap in the rest of them

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  • May 19, 2008 7:55:50 PM CDT

    If they all live in 90210....

    by thehichhiker

    ...should they not be able to pay someone off to not be pushing 30 and still be in high school?. Seriously, are any of these actors within a decade of being 14?

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  • May 19, 2008 8:01:26 PM CDT

    gossip girl

    by jackdonkey

    the first couple episodes of gossip girl were pretty good. I can't stand Vanessa.. Dan, ok wait I only like Blair, Rufus, Lily, Jenny (barely), Nate, Chuck (barely). Now that Vanessa is with Nate that makes Nate suck since that idiot Vanessa is in a lot of his scenes. Fuck Vanessa is like a even shittier version of Michelle Rodreguiz and I didn't think that was possible.

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  • May 19, 2008 8:07:41 PM CDT

    TheHichhiker...here are the ages of the actors

    by bacci40

    shenae....19, annalynne...21, dustin...23, jessica...22, tristan...19....coulda been worse

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  • May 19, 2008 8:12:34 PM CDT

    I have to admit, I was curious about this show

    by big jim

    and planned on watching at least the pilot. That is, until I saw that promo. All I saw was every teen show since 90210 trying to be the new 90210. The only thing that makes this show different from the myriad of imitators & ripoffs in the past 15 years in the 90210 name. This show is trying way too hard to be "hip". "We're the coolest show on tv, and we're not even on tv yet".The guy playing the cool, young teacher looks like he's one of the students. Gee, I wonder if he will have an inappropriate relationship with one of his students.

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  • May 19, 2008 8:20:14 PM CDT

    I had sex with a dude today.....

    by lhombresiniestro

    ...and yet this was even more gay...

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  • May 19, 2008 8:20:37 PM CDT

    So , a bunch of 20 something's playing "kids"

    by thehichhiker

    I was slightly curious only because of Rob Thomas, but I don't think even he could save this. But hey, at least one good thing came from this article - I finally figured out where I knew that shrink from "Bones" from.

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  • May 19, 2008 8:35:22 PM CDT

    I lasted 10 seconds before I hit the pause button.

    by pennsy

    Couldn't watch it anymore. The CW will be out of business in the next 18 months. A prediction, then.

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  • May 19, 2008 8:40:57 PM CDT

    "We're gonna take this show to a whole new level..."

    by tylerzero

    "...OF COMPLETE AND UTTER SHIT."

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  • May 19, 2008 8:42:11 PM CDT

    I hope it's ANIMATED!

    by mistergreen

    Animated soap opera would be cool.

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  • May 19, 2008 8:44:38 PM CDT

    So wait, this isn't a Dollhouse talkback?

    by chrth

    It's been two days!

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  • May 19, 2008 8:52:36 PM CDT

    Will the new intro have the manditory Brendan Walsh fist-pump?

    by tallboy66

    you know, the Dah-nah-nah nah-nah-nah-nah nah *CLAP CLAP - FIST PUMP* That shit is fucking key. Also, its kind of an oddity for the 9021 intro theme song itself in this day and age, considering how intros for shows today are, like, 5 seconds long, if that. *cough* L O S T *cough*

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  • May 19, 2008 9:13:04 PM CDT

    oh, my dear slkboxrman...

    by ravex

    this show will almost certainly suck. and yes, it will fail.
    but its failure will be very minor compared to your ability to detect sarcasm in Ashok0's post.
    followed only by your bad attempt on figuring out my handle.

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  • May 19, 2008 9:44:11 PM CDT

    From someone called "willowfan"

    by zerocorpse

    I take "you officially suck" as a compliment!
    The day Whedonites, browncoats, Buffywanks, cosplayers, furries, and weeaboos consider me cool, is the day I stop being able to live with myself.

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  • May 19, 2008 9:54:03 PM CDT

    So I guess...

    by don lockwood

    ...that means they're writing Darcy out of Degrassi. Mmm, Shenae Grimes. I liked when she became a bad girl, but she wasn't nearly as bad as Miriam McDonald or Cassie Steele were. Thank god nobody knows who I really am or they'd know of my secret Degrassi addiction.

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  • May 19, 2008 10:24:20 PM CDT

    I thought the title of the series was "Superficiality"...

    by filmcritic3000

    You'd think The CW would try to add shows about things other than text-messaging dead-behind-the eyes teenagers. Other than "Supernatural" and "Reaper", there's nothing to watch on the network. They need to get it in gear, or they'll be relegated to the dustbin of history next season, as either Variety or The Hollywood Reporter said recently.

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  • May 19, 2008 10:27:12 PM CDT

    Don Lockwood...all my friends watch degrassi

    by bacci40

    and we are nowhere close to the target audience...nothing to be ashamed of...that show fucking rox

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  • May 19, 2008 10:30:35 PM CDT

    Jessica Walter... noooo...!

    by iamnicksaicnsn

    Arrested Development to this? For shame...

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  • May 19, 2008 11:03:40 PM CDT

    ZeroCorpse - So, Whedon was never cool...and

    by crankyoldguy

    neither was Farscape, seasons 3-6 of Deep Space Nine and.... I'm sure you thought, what, West Wing was cool? Bored the piss out of me (though my sister, a year younger than me loved it. Then, she and her husband liked Hairspray, too yuck). Whedons shows were damn cool, damn smart, damn fun. And yeah, I'm well over 35, and don't watch much targeted to my CSI/Law and Order-generation demographic (though those franchises are okay, but hardly the stuff to make you want to record it if you're out, etc.).

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  • May 19, 2008 11:24:34 PM CDT

    And thus, a network implodes

    by harry weinstein

    Wow, this is pathetic. Reheated Fox leftovers, years past the expiration date. This must be some sort of new low for television.

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  • May 19, 2008 11:29:22 PM CDT

    Tssh!

    by ollerom

    I think I just died a little inside. 90210 in 2 different decades what are they trying to do kill us all.

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  • May 19, 2008 11:31:06 PM CDT

    The producers are overlooking...

    by snowpuff

    ...that Melrose Place took place in the same universe. They could reprise some characters from there as well in the same show. I wouldn't mind seeing if Josie Bissett is still hot.

    That being said, they must be absolute fucking morons to be negotiating with Tori Spelling to be on the show. With all due respect to Spelling, no one, NO ONE , wants to see Tori Spelling on this show. I mean, what the fuck could they be thinking?!

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  • May 20, 2008 12:08:31 AM CDT

    In one word: Fascist.

    by wowsah156

    Its shows like this that make kids angry and depressed. Totally vacuous, shallow and pointless, CW will help to contribute to more suicides and school massacres with this type of shit. I never saw one actor who came closde to looking and behaving like a REAL human being. Of course it will get high ratings, because there are enough kids out there who are sad miserable, depressed and angry who want to be like these aspiration pretty mouthed teens , but the more they watch it, the more angry and fustrated with life they will become , and the sound of the firing range will beckon. Mandatory storylines for the new "improved series" will include, "gang rape", "porno", drug habit", "daddy complex", "shiny new gun" corrupt cop", "wrong side of town" etc etc etc.

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  • May 20, 2008 12:37:06 AM CDT

    I hope this is a forgettable failure.

    by pomophobe

    I really do, the only inspiration I feel from this is to not watch, I really hope this bombs like Bionic Woman.

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  • May 20, 2008 1:20:09 AM CDT

    Bring back Emily Valentine!

    by bauerjackbauer

    I love when she tied Brandon up and tried to set him on fire.

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  • May 20, 2008 2:53:09 AM CDT

    "My character has attitude! He's edgy, he's in your face!"

    by newc0253

    "You've heard the expression 'let's get busy'? Well, this is a dog who gets 'biz-zay!' Consistently and thoroughly!"

    Seriously, they booted Thomas? This thing is looking to stink like my ass.

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  • May 20, 2008 5:10:02 AM CDT

    If they bring this back then...

    by mrfan

    bring back Knots Landing.

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  • May 20, 2008 5:37:55 AM CDT

    Going from The Wire and Arrested Development

    by methosb

    ... not such a good career move.

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  • May 20, 2008 6:36:38 AM CDT

    Wraith of Brenda

    by dazzler69

    You know it's coming!
    I hope all the old cast pop up every now and then.

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  • May 20, 2008 7:08:31 AM CDT

    Ugh

    by sebilrazen

    that wardrobe is awful.

    Please tell me people don't actually dress like that.

    Oh no, this has done it, the new 90210 has made me gay.

    Not really.

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  • May 20, 2008 7:14:04 AM CDT

    90210 is decimated by Tony Almeida

    by turketron

    And Jack doesn't care. No silent clocks, but instead, cheering...

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  • May 20, 2008 7:54:38 AM CDT

    Ages

    by gdawgclt

    They aren't going to get actual teen actors, probably because of the federal law that prohibits actors under 18 from being in sex scenes.

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  • May 20, 2008 8:15:24 AM CDT

    hmm while i was alittle too young and black for 90210

    by thareign23

    i loved michael on the wire but common dixon looks like the wannabe toughguy from the oc could fukk him up. he needs some of that michael edge

    tristan wilds impressed me on the wire and michael turned out to be my favorite (new ) character . that scene when he fukked up kenard or the one when he stood tall when randy was being called snitch and he stood up all bloody was like damnnnn.

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  • May 20, 2008 9:32:11 AM CDT

    why not just change the name of the site to...

    by thebaxter

    AmazonCoolNews. at least it would be a more accurate represenation of your content.

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  • May 20, 2008 10:29:23 AM CDT

    square pegs > geeks n freaks

    by arcadiands

    how come there's never any love to the show that kick-started this whole genre?

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  • May 20, 2008 10:37:21 AM CDT

    Tristan Wilds as Dixon Mills

    by quemapueblos

    Though I find it to be a backward leap in career trajectory, exactly how much work do you think there is for a young black actor? The fact that he landed a role in a show that will be watched by a ton of people, despite its content, is a good move for ANY young, black actor! Tristan Wilds gotta eat!

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  • May 20, 2008 10:43:07 AM CDT

    TOO.....SOON.

    by skyfly

    Not cool.

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  • May 20, 2008 11:18:41 AM CDT

    ArcadianDS that show would be degrassi then

    by bacci40

    as square pegs was more of a comedy

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  • May 20, 2008 11:21:49 AM CDT

    SUPER-GAWD-DAMN-NATURAL is the best show on CW.

    by shermdawg

    And it will remain that way, as long as Ackles doesn't lose the wisecracks. Of course being chained up in hell will hamper that a bit.

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  • May 20, 2008 12:15:51 PM CDT

    ZeroCorpse, trust me...

    by willowfan2001

    The fact that you're okay with being insulted by people who like Joss Whedon shows, the vast majority of whom (including humble old moi) are smarter than you'll ever be, is just as okay with me as it is with you.

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  • May 20, 2008 12:16:00 PM CDT

    I wonder what she's talking aboot

    by freakemovie

    The first girl interviewed in that promo is from the last couple seasons of Degrassi. I wonder how noticeable her hilarious Canadian accent will be on the CW.

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  • May 20, 2008 12:18:04 PM CDT

    I weep for this generation.........

    by dirkangerreloaded23

    Between God-awful garbage like, the Hills, Gossip Girl, this new 90210 abortion, and pretty much any single show that "MTV" makes nowadays I have lost ALL hope for the new generation. All this shit is just downright unwatchable and I cannot believe that people are entertained by this crap. Maybe it is a good thing that we're all going down in 2012 cause if this is the future...........

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  • May 20, 2008 1:17:37 PM CDT

    Fuck all you haters.

    by sailor rip

    Let me tell you something, that episode where Luke Perry's girlfriend was killed was a good piece of tv.

    And I'll tell you something that ain't so funny, it made me cry like a little girl...well maybe it's a little funny.

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  • May 20, 2008 1:45:20 PM CDT

    Holy fuck that looks gay

    by iamagoodguy

    It really does, do you not all agree?

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  • May 20, 2008 2:41:24 PM CDT

    Hmmm

    by dancinggopher01

    Was that meant to make me laugh my ass off? If so then good job CW.

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  • May 20, 2008 3:42:16 PM CDT

    Where is Happy Days?

    by ebertsfatthumb

    This list is bogus!


    AAAAAAYYYYYY!

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  • May 20, 2008 5:35:19 PM CDT

    Shermdawg

    by quin the eskimo

    speaks the truth

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  • May 20, 2008 6:18:58 PM CDT

    This column

    by meshgearfoxx

    could not have been more disjointed thanks to those freakin links. Crap like that makes me open a new browser window, type in amazon and search there rather than clicking through.

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  • May 20, 2008 7:00:21 PM CDT

    raveX

    by slkboxrman

    whoops, sorry ashoko.....its hard to detect sarcasm in written form...lol..... o wow now tori(i got no talent but daddy loves me)spelling is in this crap fest too...i really think she was better at doing comedy playin the dumb ditz....what the CW is forgettin is that the original 90210 was prob one of the granddaddys of shows like the OC, one tree hill, etc, etc...the same old teen BS drama shows...except in this case itll be the whiny im rich and sexy but not happy storylines....

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  • May 20, 2008 7:00:38 PM CDT

    I wonder if Tori's dad is spinning in his grave.

    by theonecalledshoe

    I guess we'll have to wait and see upon how things go with the show. I'm wagering upon this will be like the Knight Rider reprise. Call it a hunch.

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  • May 20, 2008 8:20:19 PM CDT

    AICN = Chick News?

    by the podosphere

    Seriously, is any hetero guy going to watch this, ever, except at gunpoint???

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  • May 20, 2008 10:39:32 PM CDT

    Hot chick from Full House?

    by bass ackwards

  • May 20, 2008 10:47:10 PM CDT

    Ziering wants in, too...

    by jimmy rabbitte

    surprise, surprise...

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  • May 20, 2008 11:02:19 PM CDT

    AS IF I NEEDED A GOOD REASON NOT TO WATCH.

    by alice 13

    i hope there is an all new level of canceledness that im not aware of.

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  • May 20, 2008 11:19:33 PM CDT

    I Like Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars and Everything But

    by dkt

  • May 20, 2008 11:32:03 PM CDT

    just sad

    by necgray

    I wonder if Spelling and Ziering are aware that this is a NEW show and that the focus of the show will be the NEW characters. At least with Garth the show approached her. This desperate grab at roles just looks pathetic. I guess Tori needs money after her bed and breakfast debacle...

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  • May 21, 2008 1:09:41 AM CDT

    As excited as I am about this updated 90210...

    by pops freshemeyer

    I'd be much more excited about an updated Happy Days. Luke Perry can be Fonzie and Joe Tata (or whatever the hell his name was) can be Mr. Cunningham...

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  • May 21, 2008 2:52:58 AM CDT

    The teachers at West Beverly are HOT!

    by madeline ashton

    Oh wait those are supposed to be students?

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  • May 21, 2008 3:09:52 AM CDT

    This just in....

    by seniorspeilbergio

    Who gives a fuck? That's it. I'm out.

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  • May 21, 2008 3:41:44 AM CDT

    Gee, I wonderhow Tori Spelling

    by thegreatwhatzit

    bagged a role? (certainly not nepotism). Tori "My daddy didn't leave me enough money" Spelling. Never saw the series--never will, what with this gasbag tagged to it.

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  • May 21, 2008 6:00:24 AM CDT

    Wow fantastic casting news!

    by yeti

    Bet Tori and "I-an" had to completley rearrange their schedules for this oppertunity. Except not.

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  • May 21, 2008 6:02:29 AM CDT

    We’re Going To Take This Show To A Whole New Level!!

    by colloquiallyborn

    .. what level of mediocrity would that be?!?!

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  • May 21, 2008 6:09:11 AM CDT

    Oh and about that Ziering guy...

    by colloquiallyborn

    Of course he wants in... He tought he'd be the next big thing in Hollywood when the series ended, but found out that the big wigs in Hollywood didn't think the same way... even worse than Priestley and Perry who can do two expresseions, "angry" and "squinty eyes"...Now he wants back in so he can get the bills paid. Can't blame him for getting some of the fame back.. But it's always sad to see this ex-generation trying to get in on the revamped shows... I'm guessing the fans would love this.. but for the rest of us.. Do we really care about this new revamp version of the most idiot made for teens soap opera?

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  • May 21, 2008 7:24:42 AM CDT

    Paging Tom Bodet...

    by the selecter

    Where are you man?

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  • May 21, 2008 8:35:24 AM CDT

    Meh

    by geodesigns

  • May 21, 2008 10:40:20 AM CDT

    this has EPIC FAIL written all over it

    by mthrndr

    If Rob Thomas were still involved, I'd give it some benefit of doubt. But two people from the writing staff of freaks and geeks? who even knows if they had any input? This will tank hard.

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  • May 21, 2008 10:52:39 AM CDT

    It's the Knight Rider of high school shows!

    by christopher3

    EPIC FAIL indeed.

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  • May 21, 2008 10:55:20 AM CDT

    Regarding Ziering

    by big jim

    I guess his payday from hosting the very creepy Your Momma Don't Dance wasn't what he'd hoped for.90210, love it or hate it, was fairly original back in its day. Sure it took itself too seriously at times but it was for the most part campy fun. I guess reruns are popular because now it's nostalgic campy fun.Most tv execs don't know what makes a show good and rely on focus groups and marketing buzz-words. "It needs to be edgy and hip. I don't know what that means, but that's what I want". And from the promo it seems this show was created by committee; by people whose only creative talent is knowing when to use a pie chart over a line graph.I predict this show will be a monumental failure that will make the US version of Coupling look like the British version of The Office.

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  • May 21, 2008 11:23:35 AM CDT

    ZZZZ.....Needs giant robots

    by carmillavondoom

    There's your Tom Bodet comment

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  • May 21, 2008 1:04:37 PM CDT

    Lori Loughlin saying that the parents are

    by big jim

    as big a part of the show as the kids made me laugh. The parents on the original said the same thing. However, I think it was as early as Season 2 or 3, the mother was complaining that all her character did was say "good morning" or "how was school" as the kids came through the kitchen. And then by, what, season 5 the parents were sent to Alaska or went on 3 year round the world cruise or something, and were off the show for good.

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  • May 21, 2008 1:25:42 PM CDT

    so i'm totally gay

    by mr_x

    god damm i love that theme tune. that zip code has helped me immensely when filling out zip codes for junk forms on the web. pig nose tori spelling, guess shes gotta eat, but i thought she had her dads money by now. no one took her seriously. jennie garth on the other hand is totally hot. bring back steve! he was totally the funny one. hmm and there's a black guy amongst the Beverly hills crew set. who would have thought eh?

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  • Something tells me Tori inherited some sort of rights to this show and used that to bludgeon her way on screen here. At least we won't be subjected to David Silver's DJ-ing skills now that BAG is busy as Derek Reese on Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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  • May 21, 2008 1:44:33 PM CDT

    Crossover with Sarah Connor Chronicles

    by the gipper

    Brian Austin Green returns to 90210, revealing that he is really named Derek Reese. Suddenly, killer robots controlled by SkyNet come and level the zip code. Judgment Day has come to Beverly Hills...

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  • May 21, 2008 11:57:32 PM CDT

    the subject cut off the rest of the quote

    by palooka_boy

    We're going to take this show to a whole new level...of retardation.

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  • May 21, 2008 11:58:02 PM CDT

    and TheGipper

    by palooka_boy

    I just fell out of my chair laughing. thanks!

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  • May 22, 2008 12:03:07 AM CDT

    Ian Zering

    by vandarkmoor

    Considering that he just recently played a lousy Cortes on Aztec Rex playing Steve on 90210 again would be a leg up for him.

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  • May 22, 2008 10:38:28 AM CDT

    9021Oh NO!

    by frakthetoasters

    So Donna Martin is back on 90210. She's probably a 39 year old spinster with cats since David "D-Rock" Silver dumped her for all the 19 year old groupies who thought his white boy rapper act was brilliant. Then Eminem came along and smashed David. David is now a dental assistant in his dad's office.

    I can understand Jennie Garth coming back and that is good because well Jennie is still smoking hot after all these years. But Tori? She was horseface back then and she's horseface now.

    P.S. The Lone African American guy's storyline is EXACTLY like Ryan's from The O.C. Only he's African American. I wonder how his face punching skills are?

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