This is even more exciting casting news. Reuters reports that Tristan Wilds, aka Michael on The Wire, has joined the cast of the 90210, as "Dixon Mills," the adopted son of the family that already includes Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes and Lori Loughlin.
I want to vomit with excitement. According to TV Guide, Jessica Walter, aka Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, has agreed to play what sounds like the same role on the CW's 90210 re-whatever.
Lori Loughlin has signed on as "Celia Mills," the new show's version of Cindy Walsh, according to this report. I don't know how I feel about this -- I sort of loved Lori Loughlin, circa Edge of Night, but her performance on Summerland freaked me out.
Meanwhile, according to TV Guide, Lizzie Maguire has turned down the role of "Annie," Lori's on-screen daughter, and the role has gone to Shenae Grimes of . . . wait for it . . . Degrassi: The Next Generation. Yay? I don't feel strongly one way or another about Grimes, who played Christian-ish cheerleader Darcy on DNG, but there's a certain weird, Canadian logic to the casting, isn't there?
According to EOnline, Hilary Duff is being considered for a lead role in the CW's 90210 remake/relaunch/sequel.
Dear Jenny,
How excited are you about the Beverly Hills, 90210 remake/sequel/adaptation/reimaginationation? A little? Moderately? A lot? As much as I am? I feel like I need to start documenting every new development, because all the news we've gotten so far has been really encouraging. 1. You know that Rob Thomas developed it for the CW, right? Good. 2. You read where Defamer got ahold of that memo listing the proposed central characters, right? And you ignored that one of the characters is going to be a video blogger named "Silver"? 3. Did you know that although Rob Thomas is going to be too busy with Cupid and Good Behavior to move beyond an initial treatment, the CW has hired Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah to write the pilot? This is, I think, very good news. We know Sachs and Judah from Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. I watched and mostly entirely liked life as we know it, the high school show they did for ABC a while ago. I can't speak to What About Brian. I watched maybe an episode and a half and I remember almost nothing about it, except that ABC kept it around a lot longer than you would think.
Love,
-- Pete
