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 […]
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