Video: Beverly Hills, 90210 Promo Hits the Web
People TV Watch - 19th May 2008
Shenae Grimes: That was fast! A new promo for the CW's Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff has hit the Web and it promises the show will be “cooler, sexier and more provocative” than the original and that every character has a secret.
Watch as
Shenae Grimes,
Dustin Milligan and
Lori Loughlin talk about their characters. Then, meet the show's hot young cast and find out what they have to said about being a part of the new 90210 when they visited PEOPLE.
In This Story
Lori Loughlin Is 90210's New Cindy Walsh!
Sources confirm to me exclusively that Lori Loughlin has been tapped to play "the mom role" on the CW's upcoming 90210 update. She joins a growing cast that includes Runaway's Dustin Milligan and Nip/Tuck's AnnaLynne McCord.
Assuming CW doesn't veer too far from Rob Thomas' original vision — his pilot script is currently undergoing a rewrite by What About Brian's Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah — Loughlin, 43, will play Celia Mills, an ex-Olympic athlete who relocates to Beverly Hills with her husband (BH
Tori Spelling Returning to 90210
Looks like Jennie Garth isn't the only Beverly Hills, 90210 alum returning to her old zip code.
Tori Spelling – who played Donna Martin – has been tapped to co-star in the new spin-off version of the '90s hit teen drama, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com.
"She will be a recurring character," the source adds.
DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com first reported the news.
"I am excited about it," Spelling told Us in April when asked about the new version.
"In some way, every show that followed 90210
New 90210 Has Serious Daddy Issues
When the CW introduced the cast of its understandably overhyped 90210 update yesterday at its upfront, something — or, rather, someone — was conspicuously absent. No, not Joe E. Tata — the show's freakin' patriarch!
Yep, ignored amid all the hoopla at the quasi coming-out party was the fact that the core family, the Mills', is still without a father figure. Why? According to insiders, filling the role of Harry, pop to Dixon and Annie, and husband to Lori Loughlin's Debbie has been harder to do than