Slumming
Tonight, a two-hour pilot kicks off the relaunch of Beverly Hills, 90210. The new show – the Walshes are now the Wilsons – is just going by 90210, skipping both the passé Beverly Hills shout-out and the tacky Next Generation tag used in early prep.
A batch of TV vets – Lori Loughlin (Full House), Rob Estes (Melrose Place), Jessica Walter (everything from Arrested Development way back to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) comprises the part of the cast whose names I recognize; the kids are vets of Degrassi, The O.C., and even The Wire in one case (Tristan Wilds).
I figure the folks who watched the first edition (which ran 10 years, fairly impressive for a high school show) are well past this, save an occasional guilty wallow in the first couple of seasons on DVD, and that the folks of the right demographic will stick with Gossip Girl.
A batch of TV vets – Lori Loughlin (Full House), Rob Estes (Melrose Place), Jessica Walter (everything from Arrested Development way back to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) comprises the part of the cast whose names I recognize; the kids are vets of Degrassi, The O.C., and even The Wire in one case (Tristan Wilds).
I figure the folks who watched the first edition (which ran 10 years, fairly impressive for a high school show) are well past this, save an occasional guilty wallow in the first couple of seasons on DVD, and that the folks of the right demographic will stick with Gossip Girl.
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