Earlier this week, The CW released this promotional picture of the 90210 regular cast. From left to right: Dustin Milligan, AnnaLynne McCord, Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes, Tristan Wilds, Lori Loughlin, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup and Michael Steger.
If you've been keeping up with information about the spin-off, you know that there is someone missing from that picture. No, it's not Jennie Garth or Tori Spelling since they will be recurring/guest stars. But it's the actor who'll play the pivotal character of Harry Mills, a father who relocates his family in Beverly Hills to take care of his mother.
According to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, the show has had a hard time finding the right actor to play the Mills patriarch. The problem is that filming of the pilot/season premiere will start soon so they have to hire someone ASAP. Supposedly, the executive producers are thinking of offering the role to Rob Estes without having him go through the audition process. Estes, who recently appeared in Women's Murder Club, was part of the first 90210 spin-off, Melrose Place. Personally, I hope that they offer him the role and that he accepts because the actor fits the role of Harry and that would make 90210 a very pretty zip code.
In other 90210 news, Entertainment Weekly learned that spin-off producer Gabe Sachs would not only like to use the original theme song but also have different bands record their own version of it each week. EW also reveals that the show is trying to get permission to shoot at Torrance High School, which was used to portray West Beverly High in the original series.
Finally, if you are nostalgic about the original series, go to Randi and Mike Lawson's MySpace page where you can listen to "Oh, Minnesota," a 90210 tribute song.
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5-15-2008 @ 12:33PM
Oreo said...
At least they are trying to make it a true spinoff.
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5-15-2008 @ 12:56PM
justelise said...
Wow! Shenae Grimes! I'm a fan of Degrassi TNG, so it's nice to see some of the cast members getting picked for high(er) profile roles as they get older. I'm also glad to see that the cast isn't completely Caucasian this time around.
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5-15-2008 @ 1:11PM
kevjohn said...
I won't be watching this show. But I had to say thanks for the laughs I got from that cast pic. :)
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5-15-2008 @ 2:33PM
Jeremy Lacey said...
Oh how I love the irony. 90210 was created because Aaron Spelling wanted his own Degrassi. Degrassi: TNG is created years later as a spinoff. Shenae Grimes is in D:TNG as Darcy; and now she's in the the spinoff of the Degrassi impersonator.
What does that mean for Darcy's character on Degrassi?! (P.S. TV Squad should cover Degrassi)
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5-15-2008 @ 2:37PM
MacGuffin said...
I predict they won't even make it through the front 13 episodes.
Especially since they don't have an Andrea Zuckerman or a geeky David Silver character. What about the Peach Pit???
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5-15-2008 @ 2:42PM
Ashley Boyd said...
Theres something very So You Think You Can Dance?/American Idol/Generic Lame Reality Show about that image.
Jessica Walter can do better.
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5-15-2008 @ 6:23PM
scotty said...
They may as well start writing the black kid off the show -- cynical me predicts his character will be severely under-utilized and confined to the background as the "smiling best buddy".
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5-16-2008 @ 12:22PM
Galley said...
I was about to say: "that is a whole lotta white people"!
5-15-2008 @ 6:30PM
scotty said...
And for you TV trivia buffs: Torrance High also stood in for Sunnydale High in the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Torrance High appears in A LOT of TV shows and movies. It's definitely a school campus worth checking out if you are visiting LA and want to see familiar Hollywood-set locations. (I would advise walking around Torrance High on the weekends or in the summer, when school isn't in session, out of consideration to the students and surrounding community.)
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5-15-2008 @ 6:51PM
Oreo said...
And they might send the school into lock down if strangers wonder in. :P
5-16-2008 @ 8:24AM
Alicia said...
(SHHH! I'm going to watch this train wreck.)
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