It certainly won't have the cameos of previous castmates to tempt an older audience (30-45 yr olds) the way 90210 did with Garth, Dougherty and Nat the Peach Pit owner. Rob Estes is already on the new 90210, Marcia Cross and Doug Savant are on Desperate Housewives, Kelly Rutherford is on Gossip Girl, Grant Show is on Swingtown (which got picked up by Bravo or A&E for a second season), Courtney Thorne-Smith is on According to Jim, which still has a pick-up order for this season, Andrew Shue has given up acting for non-profits, Jack Wagner has been on the Bold and the Beautiful for years now, even Josie Bissett is on ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager.
I hear Daphne Zuniga is free - she got dumped off of her role as Brook's evil mom on the CW "hit" One Tree Hill earlier this year. Perhaps she can reprise her role as Jo, the skulky photographer obsessed with Jake in the early seasons. And they might be able to get Heather Locklear straight out of rehab, but that would be tough for the producers to insure....
I didn't actually think this show had a strong enough premise the first go-round: a bunch of attractive young struggling 20 somethings live in an apartment building together. And there was too much fiction for me to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the drama - why was Heather Locklear living in a walk-up apartment on Melrose when she was the VP of a highly successful advertising company? Why did Dr Micheal live at the same shoddy apartment building? He was a surgeon for gods sake.
My suggestion to the CW: Leave well enough alone and be happy you actually got some traction on 90210.
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