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For the original TV series, see Beverly Hills, 90210.
Not to be confused with 90210 (TV series).
BH90210
File:BH90210 Poster Art.jpg
GenreComedy-drama
Based onBeverly Hills, 90210 by Darren Star
Developed byMike Chessler
Chris Alberghini
Tori Spelling
Jennie Garth
StarringGabrielle Carteris
Shannen Doherty
Jennie Garth
Brian Austin Green
Jason Priestley
Tori Spelling
Ian Ziering
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Production companyCBS Television Studios
Original release
NetworkFox

BH90210 is an upcoming American comedy-drama television series set to air on August 7, 2019 on Fox. It is the sixth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. Original series stars Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling will return in the new series, playing themselves in a heightened version of reality that is inspired by their real lives and relationships, in which the actors deal with launching a reboot of the 1990s TV series, Beverly Hills, 90210.[1][2]

Plot

The series will focus on the original cast members of Beverly Hills, 90210 — Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green, Tori Spelling, and Shannen Doherty — playing heightened, fictionalized versions of themselves. Having parted ways 19 years after the original series ended, they reunite to get a reboot up and running, and must reconcile their new lives with the complications of their histories together.

Cast

Main

The main cast is composed of actors from the original series portraying fictionalized versions of themselves.[3] Their fictional characters and storylines are inspired by the actors' real lives.[4]

  • Gabrielle Carteris as herself:
    Carteris portrayed Andrea Zuckerman in the original series.
  • Shannen Doherty as herself:
    Doherty portrayed Brenda Walsh in the original series and the CW revival.
  • Jennie Garth as herself:
    Garth portrayed Kelly Taylor in the original series and of its several spin-offs. Developing a fictional version of herself required a lot of introspection, according to Garth, ultimately creating a character "in her ‘40s in a multiple-marriage situation, dealing with teenage girls, dealing with Hollywood, being in the limelight again and facing all those fears that were there when she was a young girl."[5] Ziering reiterated that Garth's character would have a storied love life, reflecting Garth's real-life marriages.[4]
  • Brian Austin Green as himself:
    Green portrayed David Silver on the original series. His fictionalized character is a stay-at-home dad.[6]
  • Jason Priestley as himself:
    Priestley portrayed Brandon Walsh in the original series. Priestley stated his fictionalized character "differs from [him] in every way," aside from his career as a TV director.[7] Ziering elaborated that Priestley's character only directs teen dramas, leaving him creatively dissatisfied.[4]
  • Tori Spelling as herself:
    Spelling portrayed Donna Martin in the original series and several spin-offs. Creating the fictional Tori character proved difficult for the writers, according to Spelling, due to the public fodder surrounding the actor's personal life.[5] The fictional Tori will have six children, whereas Spelling has five in real life.[4] According to Ziering, Spelling's character is "broke," reflecting the actor's alleged financial issues, and is thus the catalyst for getting the reboot off the ground.[8]
  • Ian Ziering as himself:
    Ziering portrayed Steve Sanders in the original series. Ziering's character on the show will be an entrepreneur.[4] He describes the character as "much more motivating and inspiring" than Ziering is in real life, adding that he is "very well off, lives in a beautiful home, he’s got everything he really needs — so we think."[8]

Guest stars

  • Carol Potter as herself:
    Potter portrayed Cindy Walsh on the original series.[9]
  • Christine Elise McCarthy as herself:
    McCarthy recurred as Emily Valentine in the original series.
  • La La Anthony as Shay:
    Brian Austin Green's fictional wife and a successful pop/hip-hop artist. She is the breadwinner for the family while Brian is a stay-at-home dad. She has grown accustomed to being the center of attention but remains down to earth.[6]
  • Vanessa Lachey as Camille:
    Jason Priestley's fictional wife and a high-powered publicist who desires to start a family.[10]
  • Ivan Sergei as Nate:
    Tori Spelling's fictionalized husband and an ex-hockey player with aspirations of becoming a professional sports announcer.[11]
  • Karis Cameron as Kyler
  • Evan Roderick as Chaz Bryant
  • Brad Bergeron as Matthew
  • Destiny Millns as Heather
  • Natalie Sharp as Anna:
    A writer on a successful new TV series.[12]
  • Denise Richards as herself[13]

Episodes

No.Title [14]Directed byWritten byOriginal air date [14]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"The Reunion"UnknownUnknownAugust 7, 2019 (2019-08-07)TBAN/A
2"The Pitch"UnknownUnknownAugust 14, 2019 (2019-08-14)TBAN/A
3"The Photo Shoot"UnknownUnknownAugust 21, 2019 (2019-08-21)TBAN/A

Production

Background and development

From 2008 to 2013, a sequel series entitled 90210 aired on The CW. Jennie Garth returned in a heavily recurring role, while Tori Spelling and Shannen Doherty also made appearances and Jason Priestley directed an episode. In December 2013, Ian Ziering stated on Oprah: Where Are They Now? that he had attempted to sell a "loosely scripted" reunion special in which the original cast members appeared as themselves at a dinner party at his house, with a target airdate of September 2, 2010 to commemorate the show's numerical title; however, he failed to find a network interested in buying the project.[15] Ziering indicated that Hulu had expressed interest in a revival series with the original cast in August 2016.[16]

"It's not technically a reboot, because I feel like everyone has seen the reboot. We don't want to be the last ones like doing the reboot thing, and no one wants to see like old versions of ourselves, but they do want to see us playing our characters, so what we're doing is the entire cast is playing heightened versions of themselves. Think Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes, in an hour long show, and we're all playing heightened versions, so it could be fictional, it could be non-fictional, people will have to guess."

—Tori Spelling, on the series concept[3]

In March 2018, it was reported that Garth and Spelling had partnered with CBS Television Studios to produce a 90210-related series in which they would play "exaggerated versions of themselves."[17][18] The project came out of an initial meeting between Spelling and studio president David Stapf.[19] That December, Garth and Spelling shopped project to several networks and streaming services, and Deadline Hollywood confirmed the return of Priestley, Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, and Brian Austin Green, as well as Mike Chessler and Chris Alberghini, who created Spelling's sitcom So Notorious and also wrote on the CW's 90210.[20] That same day, CBS Television Studios confirmed the project was still in "early development" and called it "an untraditional take on a reboot with some of the original cast."[21] In February 2019, Deadline reported that Fox, which aired the original series, was among the outlets bidding on the series, with ABC, CBS, and CBS All Access also reportedly interested.[22] On February 27, Fox ordered the six-episode event series, then titled 90210.[23] Its short order reflected a shift in the company's mandate away from a traditional 22-episode order following Disney's acquisition of 20th Television, which rendered Fox as a stand-alone network.[24] In April, the series was retitled BH90210.[25]

Casting

Garth and Spelling, who spearheaded the project initially,[21] were confirmed to play heightened versions of themselves on March 11, 2018.[17] That December, Priestley, Ziering, Green, and Carteris were confirmed to have signed on, also playing fictionalized versions of themselves.[20] On February 1, 2019, Spelling said that Luke Perry would return for "as many [episodes] as he can do," given his prior commitment to Riverdale, and that there was "no status right now" as to whether Shannen Doherty would return.[22] On March 4, Perry died after suffering a stroke, and had not officially signed on,[26] although he had been involved creatively before his death.[5][27] On April 26, Doherty's return was confirmed.[25]

On May 30, La La Anthony became the first non-alum actor to be cast in the recurring role of Shay, Green's fictionalized wife.[6] The following day on May 31, Vanessa Lachey was cast as Camille, Jason Priestley's fictionalized wife, in a recurring role.[10] On June 5, Ivan Sergei joined the supporting cast as Nate, Spelling's fictionalized husband. Sergei had previously starred with Spelling in the 1996 television film Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?.[11] Christine Elise McCarthy, who reoccurred on the original series as Emily Valentine, joined the cast on June 17.[28] On July 15, it was reported that Natalie Sharp has joined the cast as a new character named Anna.[12] On July 30, Spelling announced that Denise Richards has joined the cast, also portraying a heightened version of herself. Richards had previously appeared on an episode of the original series as Robin McGill, Kelly's cousin.[13] Carol Potter, who starred in the original series as Cindy Walsh, was also reported to be making an appearance.[9]

Writing

Garth and Spelling developed the idea alongside Alberghini and Chessler.[20] According to Spelling, they wanted to avoid creating a traditional reboot in the vein of the CW series and create "something that would cause noise and be groundbreaking just like [the] original show was back in the ‘90s."[5] Garth and Spelling then approached the original cast about appearing, leading to months of creative conversations to flesh out the concept and develop fictionalized versions of themselves.[7] Ziering noted that the cast left themselves "vulnerable" and open to mining their real lives for storylines.[4] Priestley noted that while the meta show within a show premise differentiates the series from other reboots, it will still follow some traditional conventions in the current trend of reviving older shows.[29] While the writers looked to other shows with similar concepts, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Episodes, as examples, Chessler considered this series more challenging because it featured an entire ensemble playing themselves rather than just one actor.[19] The main cast remained creatively involved in the process and serve as executive producers,[5][25] On May 16, Paul Sciarrotta was announced as the series' showrunner, replacing Patrick Sean Smith, who left the series alongside two unnamed writers.[30] The writers' departures reportedly stemmed from disagreements with some of the actors and an executive overseeing the project.[31]

The writing staff had one week per episode to break the story and write the script.[32] Garth stated the new series would ignore the CW revival, on which she was prominently featured, as they aimed "to move away from that sort of image and go back to the original concept."[33] Sciarrotta said the writers were conscious not to make the dialog pertaining to television production "too inside baseball."[32] Doherty stated Perry's death would be addressed in the first episode.[34]

Filming

Filming took place in Vancouver, with production dates from May 21 to July 31, 2019.[35] Principal photography with most of the cast began on May 27,[36] whereas Doherty began filming on June 14.[37] Scenes taking place at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School were filmed at Vancouver Technical Secondary School.[19] Spelling later confirmed filming would wrap on August 2.[13] On set, the fictionalized characters were referred to by their initials to avoid confusion from the actors' speaking in the third person.[8] Costume designer Mandi Line collaborated heavily with each actor to develop their wardrobe, which included recreations of specific outfits worn on the original series.[38]

Future

Though BH90210 was advertised as an event series, Garth and Spelling have indicated that future seasons are possible.[39] They elaborated that future episodes or seasons would "delve into actual scenes" from the show within a show.[19] Ziering revealed that the original pitch suggested 13 episodes, the final of which would have incorporated this concept and would have taken place entirely in the world of the original series.[40]

Promotion

On May 8, an additional trailer depicting the cast reuniting for a table read of the first script and announc. TVLine called the teaser "nostalgia-drenched."[41] The official trailer premiered at the Fox network upfronts presentation on May 13 and showcased "the actors themselves going about their daily lives, with Doherty practicing yoga, Spelling making coffee, Garth blow-drying her hair, and more — as the beloved theme song comes back into their lives in unexpected ways."[42] On May 16, Fox reported that the trailer has amassed 18 million views and 140,818 shares across social media platforms in under 69 hours, making it the most-watched and most-shared trailer among all new series for the 2019-20 broadcast television season.[43] On June 6, another promo depicting the cast playing with authentic dolls modeled after their characters was released.[44] On July 11, the first trailer featuring footage from the series was released.[45] Additionally, Fox and PopSugar opened a pop-up restaurant modeled after the Peach Pit diner from the series in Los Angeles from August 1 to August 3, 2019.[46]

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