We don’t know if you’ve heard, because there’s been very little publicity, but there’s a “spinoff” of teen classic Beverly Hills 90210 starting this week. Since there are huge banners in the mall showing characters names “Navid” and “Silver”, (really, producers Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, really?) we at spunkybean thought it might be fun to take a quick spin around imdb.com and see what the original cast has been up to in the ensuing eight years (or several more in some cases) since the original went off the air. Have we mentioned that you can’t technically do a spinoff of a show that’s been off the air for eight years? Because that really sticks in our collective craw!
supposed to be a spoof of her actual life. This attempt to reinvent her persona followed Tori’s many attempts at serious acting, from The House of Yes and Trick to
her numerous TV movies, featuring such awesomely titled gems as Coed Call Girl, Awake with Danger, A Friend to Die For and, of course, the classic Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
ended. As the congregation-bilking Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier, Perry spent half of his episodes in horrifying burn makeup. He later took on another HBO role on John From Cincinnati. Where he’d been a Christ figure on Oz, his character on John, Linc Starc, was believed by many fans of the series to be an earthbound, powerless Satan. Both roles were about as unlike Dylan McKay as he could get, as evidenced by the fact that neither of his HBO characters appeared on officially licensed Trapper Keepers. 
Tiffani Amber Theissen (Valerie Malone)After leaving 90210 in ’98, Jason continued the directing he’d been doing on the show and parlayed it into a BNL documentary called
Barenaked in America. He also starred in a silly Family Channel made-for called I Want to Marry Ryan Banks, which was a spoof on The Bachelor, plus the CBS show Love Monkey with Tom Cavanaugh (of Ed fame) and Judy Greer (of many awesome things), which was sadly canceled after eight short weeks. Most recently, he had a run on a USA show called Side Order of Life which we saw ads for, but never bothered to watch. Sorry, Jase. A low point of Priestly’s career, through no fault of his own, was his appearance on a season finale of The Apprentice. Utterly useless finalist Lee was tasked to present a charity hockey game, and he managed to lose Jason Priestly. The finale featured a good deal of security-camera footage showing Priestly wandering the completely unmarked halls of the arena.
Ian Ziering (Steve Sanders)
Still looking boyish at 44, Ian has spent most of his post-90210 time doing voice over work for things like Spider-Man and Biker Mice from Mars. He and former castmate Brian Austin Green played themselves in the Kiera Knightley erotic bounty hunter biopic, Domino. He also took a spin on Dancing With the Stars and finished strong, even though he didn’t win. He parlayed that into a hosting gig on the Freudian nightmare Your Mama Don’t Dance, which spotlighted fathers dancing with daughters and mothers dancing with sons, often in completely inappropriate ways. Ian may have his best role yet to come, however. On his imdb page, there is a credit listed as in production for a movie called The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, and Ian plays the character of Testiclees. How can that not be fabulous?
Brian Austin Green (David Silver)
The Notorious BAG, as he has apparently called himself at one time or another (and we hope never again) went across the pond for
his first post 90210 gig, in a teen drama called Stacy Stone that aired only in the UK. He then came back in the sitcom Freddie with–you guessed it–Freddie Prinze, Jr. It was an average show at best, but Brian was one of the bright spots. He’s now featured on the FOX show The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Of late, he’s also made a name for himself by publicly campaigning for the role of the Riddler in the next Batman movie. If he shows up for an interview wearing a green suit emblazoned with question marks, Green has a decent shot at becoming the 21st Century version of Sean Young.
Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea Zuckerman)
When she first left West Bev, Gabi was a hot enough property to get a self-titled talk show, but it was lame, and only lasted one short year. Since then, Carteris has raised a family and continued to work in many a guest starring role, including a Nip/Tuck episode where her character purposely and graphically broke her own nose, and a host of TV movies, as well as lots of voice over work for video games, including multiple appearances in the Spider-Man series, and as Elektra in last year’s best-selling Ultimate Alliance. If Andrea Zuckerman had access to an energy dart that, when properly charged, caused instant death in low-level enemies, she probably would have gotten her own spin-off.
So, there you have it. Will the new incarnation of the ’90s classic make it a whole decade? Will anybody ever wear a hat as awesomely bad as the beret Emily Valentine sported in San Francisco, or attempt to be Lucille Ball by wearing wacky prom dresses and Halloween costumes that they can’t move in like Donna Martin? We can’t say for sure, but we are looking forward to seeing if this cast can endear themselves to us the way that all of these actors did during their run. Yes, even you Shannen!
