BEVERLY HILLS 90210: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

There’s been an INORDINATE amount of talk about who’s being brought back from the original cast in the CW’s updated version of Beverly Hills, 90210. Jenny Garth, Ian Ziering, and Tori Spelling have all agreed to come back but the big fat question remains: What about the most identifiable and memorable actor on the show? Shannen “Brenda” Doherty, of course! Her bad-girl exploits (tame compared to the bad girls of today) contributed enormously to making the high school drama a hit. But as Tori Spelling wrote in her book, the rest of the cast grew intolerant of Shannen’s lateness and attitude, and they pushed Aaron Spelling to fire her. Her departure was pretty much the kiss of death for the series. Shannen WOULD get a lot of people tuning in to the new 90210, but her name never comes up! How come?

22 Comments so far

1. By Anonymous
   On May 29, 2008 at

   JC, I do not believe this project is worthy of analysis or further discussion.
   Whether Doherty returns or not is not important.
   This television show is not important.

2. By Anonymous
   On May 29, 2008 at

   REALLY WHO CARES!! These people are all OLD!

3. By Halle Raspberry
   On May 29, 2008 at

   It would be a miracle if the series could be resurrected; and esp. without Shannen, it is dead. PS: Wow, what a large long forehead on Luke Perry.

4. By JIM J BUTTOCK
   On May 29, 2008 at

   SHE HAS ARSE STANK AND HERPETIC LESIONS ON HER TAINT

5. By Anonymous
   On May 29, 2008 at

   Really it’s not like she’s busy…

6. By Anonymous
   On May 29, 2008 at

   she has nothing better to do but im surprise they want her. shes bad news and a trouble maker. oh wait. thats why. good publicity for the show.

7. By Art Chic
   On May 29, 2008 at

   She was a hell-raising cokehead/booze hound and pissed off important people.
   Oh well thems the breaks!
   But if they wanna make more adverstising $$$ they’ll bring her on for, at least, a guest shot.

8. By Anonymous
   On May 29, 2008 at

   i think it would be great if Shannen joins

9. By Red Rooster
   On May 29, 2008 at

   Michael K of DListed has run non-stop entries bemoaning why Shannen Doherty has not been asked to return, along with clips of her in the original series. I haven’t owned a TV in 7 years, yet I know all about this. How pathetic is that?

10. By Anonymous
    On May 29, 2008 at

    Nobody will watch unless Brenda comes back to the zipcode.

11. By Anonymous
    On May 29, 2008 at

    They’re stupid for not approaching her simply because she’s was the only interesting one on the show. She’s soooooooo bad it’s good. Real good. Methinks she’ll be on the show somehow someway.

12. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    SHE HAS HAD MORE LUCK…AND JUST COULDN’T PLAY NICE….SHE SHOULD BE LOADED $$$…BUT PROBABLY ISN’T….LIKE A 90′S LOHAN…

13. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    i luve you shannen where ever you may be!
    i pray they beg you to come back to 90210!

14. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    6:40 Shannen still makes a percentage off the show Charmed and I believe re-runs of 90210. She’s not Lohan. Shannen has her own special spice that’s what made 90210 so damn good. Then she left and I had to look at Tori’s horse face and Jenny Garth’s boring ass……then I just stopped watching the show.

15. By gerard Vandenberg
    On May 30, 2008 at

    What about “swimming pool head”-spelling?

16. By Jana
    On May 30, 2008 at

    90210 was a tangled web of mish-mash stories. After a while, it was all too much bed-swapping. Tori is not a great actress, but she WAS Donna Martin. It would be interesting to see what they do with it.

17. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    It’s over.. dunzo.. non of the characters are worthy of admiration even by old fans.. and frankly that series was dumb and badly acted when it was first produced.

18. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    It’s over.. dunzo.. none of the characters are worthy of admiration even by old fans.. and frankly that series was dumb and badly acted when it was first produced.

19. By Anonymous
    On May 30, 2008 at

    janet you stole this post from the other blog

20. By Anonymous
    On May 31, 2008 at

    11:48 in case you didn’t know all bloggers post the same material. ALL OF THEM. It’s not an exclusive story, it’s been talked about for months.

21. By Warren Roller
    On June 2, 2008 at

    Please. The show hardly suffered when no-talent Shannen Doherty left. Tiffani-Amber Thiessen moved in, took over and the show went on for at least 4-5 more highly rated seasons!

22. By Anonymous
    On June 2, 2008 at

    Warren, I am old, and I got hooked on the show and never missed it. U R right about Shannen. Tiffani was much better.

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