Revisiting the reboot. The teen drama 90210, a CW spinoff of the original ’90s series Beverly Hills, 90210, followed the lives of wealthy high school students in the affluent California zip code.Although a September 2009 Entertainment Weekly review said the “new, trashier take [on the OG show] is working,” others felt that the soapy series never quite lived up to its predecessor.“We were on for 10 years, they were on for five,” Ian Ziering, who starred in the original Darren Starr series, said of the 2008 remake during an August 2019 Television Critics Association event. “No one’s going to make a remake of that show, with all due respect.
Often imitated but never duplicated.”90210, which aired from 2008 to 2013, was the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, following the original series, Melrose Place (1992) and Models Inc. (1994).
The show began with Harrison Wilson (Rob Estes) returning to his childhood home in Beverly Hills to care for his aging mother Tabitha (Jessica Walter), a former actress with a drinking problem.
He brought along his wife Debbie (Lori Loughlin), daughter Annie (Shenae Grimes-Beech) and adopted son Dixon (Tristan Wilds).AnnaLynne McCord played Naomi Clark, frenemy to Grimes-Beech’s character.
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