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‘BH90210:’ S01.E06. “The Long Wait”
As the cast celebrates the wrap of the pilot, they nervously await news from the network.
Ian Ziering as fictionalised versions of themselves in the quasi ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ reboot ‘BH90210.’
The BH90210 first season came to an end Wed, 11 Sept 2019 with the Gina Lamar directed The Long Wait. Filming on the series pilot for a Beverly Hills 90210 reboot is done. All That remains is the studio signing off on the show going to series.
I rarely watched Beverly Hills 90210 because the series didn’t resonate with me. I like watching productions which speak directly to me as an individual. The original series didn’t do that. If there was a Scottish character on the show, I may have paid more attention to it.
Because Gabrielle Carteris, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, Ian Ziering, and Christine Elise are playing highly fictionalised versions of themselves rather than the original Beverly Hills 90210 characters, I must admit I find BH90210 far more entertaining than the few episodes of the 1990s series I did watch. The reason I know of each cast member is because of other productions they have respectively worked on since Beverly Hills 90210 ended.
In the season finale, we learn Fox Studios only had four slots to fill and the company quickly filled…