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It's been eight years since we waved goodbye to the residents of Beverly Hills, 90210.
Back when we left them, eterna-virgin Donna and music man David had just got hitched and blonde beauty Kelly had hooked up with bad-boy Dylan (again).
What have they been doing since? We
may never know, but its time to say hello to a new bunch of residents. Television's most famous post code is back.
America's CW network has been hard at work developing a new spin-off of the much-loved teen drama, simply named 90210.
The new series centres on the Mills family who move to Beverly Hills from Kansas so father Harry Mills can take up a role as principal at the original gang's former school, West Beverly Hills High. Like the original, the new series will feature Midwest-raised teenagers - Mills' children - learning to navigate the Beverly Hills social scene (What to wear!, who to make friends with!).
A new promo clip (watch below) declares the new season will be "cooler, sexier, more provocative."
Hello? Don't they remember the episode where Brenda lost her virginity to Dylan, when Ray threw Donna down a flight of stairs, or the one when Kelly's mum was hooked on coke?
From the original cast, only Jennie Garth (Kelly) has been confirmed for a recurring part in the new series, but Tori Spelling is reportedly in talks to reprise her role as Donna. Ian Ziering is also said to be keen to return as Steve Sanders.
Garth will play a guidance counsellor at West Beverly. No word on whether Dylan rode off into the sunset in his Porsche.
The producers have also managed to snare a former cast member of 90210 spin-off Melrose Place for the new show. Place regular Rob Estes, who played Kyle McBride, has been cast as the principal of the high school and father of the Mills family, who the show centres on.
Tori Spelling - whose father, TV mogul Aaron Spelling, was the brains behind the original show - says she would love to be involved in the new series.
She said: "I would love to be a part of it. I think it's a really good idea. 90210 was really the first of its kind, the first teen drama. It kind of laid the way for other shows like Dawson's Creek and The O.C.
"Who would I play? I would play the sexy mom obviously! Every teen drama has a hot mom - a stepmother, of course, because I couldn't possibly have a teenage daughter!"
Who would we most like to see return? The feisty Brenda Walsh, played by Shannen Doherty. We're sure her calendar is free, apart from a short run in drama Charmed in the late 90s, her only work has been failed TV pilots and made-for-TV movies. We're not too hopeful though, Doherty's is one of the only names that hasn't been mentioned in connection with the new series.
