Original Flavor BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 Revival Greenlit With a Slightly Bonkers Twist

TV Beverly Hills 90210 about 5 years agoby Mily Dunbar

Fox has officially ordered a revival of Beverly Hills, 90210. Most of the original class — Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green, and Tori Spelling (RIP Scott) — are returning for an event series that will last six episodes and will air this summer (Looks like Brenda will be spending the summer alone in Paris while Dylan and Kelly hook up on the beach again). I jest, because this isn’t just a “Brandon has to move back into his parent’s old house with Brenda and Steve to reenact his entire childhood because he is a broke widow” kind of revival. Variety reports that things are going to get weird and wonderful:

The actors will not be playing their characters from the show, but rather heightened versions of themselves. Having gone their separate ways since the original series ended 19 years ago, Jason, Jennie, Ian, Gabrielle, Brian and Tori reunite when one of them suggests it’s time to get a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot up and running. But getting it going may make for more drama than the reboot itself.

So, basically, they are bringing the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 to remake Grosse Pointe*, and I am HERE FOR IT.

Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler will write and executive produce the revival. They produced the 2008 remake/sequel series that somehow ran for five seasons. That was a surprising stat. They had the idea with Garth, possibly while they were all working on the 2008 version, which existed in the same universe as the original. Carteris, Garth, Green, Priestley, Spelling, and Ziering will also get executive producer credits.

Beverly Hills, 90210 was sort of the ur-teen soap, and it was a huge property for Fox, but it has been close to 30 years since it premiered and the TV landscape has changed a lot. Nostalgia is a huge driver in TV right now, but I am excited to see how the show will be different. I think the show within a show approach is a fun, novel way to attack it. I can’t wait. They put out a teaser that reveals nothing, but I have included it anyway.

*Grosse Pointe was a sitcom set behind the scenes of a 90210-ish teen soap, and it was amazing and no one watched it and this is why we couldn’t have nice things in the early aughts. This is a tiny clip: