90210 Cast Shakeup
Date: July 2, 2008
Source: TV.Com

When the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise reboots this fall on the CW, most of the cast will be fresh-faced talent, a sort of 90210: The Next Generation.

However, producers are giving a shout-out to the source material, and will complement all the young ‘uns with some faces from the original program that captivated audiences in the ’90s. Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling were set to reprise their roles as Kelly Taylor and Donna Martin, respectively, but things are a-changin’ down in the B.H.

Spelling, who was supposed to appear in several of the first season’s early episodes, is pushing her debut back, says E! Online. The actress recently had a baby, and is not ready to return to work.

So with one old cast member indefinitely out of the mix, producers apparently have decided to add another–and it’s a doozy.

Details on her storyline are still being developed, but E! says the hope is to reunite Doherty and Garth onscreen, and hopefully the fur will fly. Doherty was rumored to leave the original show after four seasons because of on-set friction.

“Everyone has their take on what happened back in the day, and I think the feeling is that it’s time to move on,” a source tells E! “They were 19 and 20 when all of that happened and a lot has changed. And, you know, they’re not moving in together, just shooting together for an hour and a half.”