Knowing how eagerly we've all been waiting (OK, so maybe not) to find out if Shannen Doherty will play a part in the CW's new "90210," producers put us out of her misery right away.
Yes!
Doherty will indeed return to the role of Brenda Walsh, guest-starring as the director of a high school musical.
No, we have no idea where they got the idea of staging a High School Musical. Because it's been a whole couple of days since the Disney Channel was here.
Doherty's "Beverly Hills 90210" co-star Tori Spelling will also be appearing on the show, according to the producers, though one reporter tells them he spoke to Tori just last week and she told him there wasn't a deal.
They seem to be blaming that on postpartum confusion, which also perhaps accounts for their not seeming to know much about what it is Tori will be doing on the show, other than reminding people that her late father, Aaron Spelling, is the reason they're all here in the first place.
After the session, we're given a press release, headlined, "Brenda Walsh Is Back!" that tells us a little more about this breathless development. Seems that after she moved to London to study acting (Brenda, not Shannen), she became "a successful theater actress, splitting her time between London and New York" (again, Brenda, not Shannen) before "transitioning into directing for theater," something she was so successful at that West Beverly Hills High "has approached Walsh to return to her alma mater as a guest director for the school's musical production."
OK, enough about Shannen.
There's not much to say about "90210" -- for which no pilot is yet available -- that's terribly definitive, but it's at least interesting to see that "The Wire's" Tristan Wilds is playing a former foster kid who's been adopted by rich people and that "Arrested Development's" Jessica Walter is playing Tabitha Wilson, a grandmother with a drinking problem.
“Lucille liked vodka and Tabitha likes scotch,” is the way Walter explains it when asked about the difference between her last character, who also had a wee problem with alcohol.
“I’ve promised [her character's family] I’m going to try. Lucille never tried” to quit drinking, said Walter, who also sees the Wilsons as normal, relatively speaking.
On "Arrested," “the Bluths were so dysfunctional. Are still so dysfunctional – we hope we’re going to be making a movie,” she said.
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