The New '90210' (CW Network)

Sad, shmad, whatever.

I don't care about Tristan's work.

I'm lookin to see something that pushes the envelope.

 

Me too,I want that envelope being pushed like a IR beyond the Gray's Anatomy mode.

 

Envelope has been pushed on primetime TV to an extent. Save the hopes and aspirations for the big screen where the true hurdles mostly remain standing.

 

Nah, no need to save my hopes. Movies have come a long ways as well.

No matter what, it's nice to see, period.

 

As you all can tell from my Playboy90210 screen name, I am a huge huge fan of this series (the original). Beverly Hills 90210 was MY LIFE growing up. I could talk for days and days about the show but I doubt anyone in here is a big a fan as I was so i wont bore you all with my insane knowledge of the show LOL. I was obsessed with the show and being a fan of course, I did NOT support them doing this new version. Usually these "next generation" spin off series' are pure failures and just leave a stain on the memory of the original series. Just look at Saved by the Bell: The New Class. It was a joke.


.....BUT, then I heard about the black Dixon character and thought, this could be pretty cool if they throw some IR in there. In the TV ads promoting the Sept. 2nd premiere, they show clips of Dixon dancing with some blonde at a dance/prom and him kissing her from behind with his arms around her and I was like HELL YEA!!!

On a cable channel we have here in NY (and canada) called The N, there are really really good teen drama shows like Degrassi and South of Nowhere and The Best Years (a show based around an IR black guy/white girl couple which sadly has been cancelled after 1 season but there's rumors it MIGHT be back, coincidence right?) that come on late at night that really show IR the way it should be shown, like one of my fave all time films THIRTEEN. They also deal with gay/bi/lesbian relationships, suicide, drugs, sex, etc. in a realistic, non-sugar coated way that of course you can only do on a late night cable network.

I've been waiting for a network tv station to show IR the way the movie Thirteen did and the way shows like degrassi, the best years, and south of nowhere did. Sitcoms like What I Like About You touched on it with Wesley Jonathan and Allison Munn and One Tree Hill made a joke of it by their sad attempt at IR with Skills (Antwon Tanner) and Bevin Prince. I hope this new 90210 takes it serious and gives him some serious storylines and serious relationships and treats him like the other (white) guys on the show. I will be looking forward to this. Will it be a classic like the original series? Of course not. But hopefully it will break some IR ground and be entertaining and live up to its name....

(and personally I don't find the girls on the show THAT cute. they are ok but they dont hold a candle to the chicks on the original 90210 or even the girls on ABC family new teen show The Secret life of the American teenager. And the white girl who plays the black guy Dixon's adoptive sister is Shenae Grimes, she was one of the stars of Degrassi and left the show for 90210).

 

From what I seen of the previews looks like they gotten rid of all the black characters . . . but then again I could be wrong.

 

Canadian-produced movies & TV series will have IR. I made a thread about The Best Years.

The Kid Rasta 8)

 

If any of y'all wanna write to the producers to encourage them to do IR...here's the address:

Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah (producers, 90210)
Sachs Judah Productions
500 S Buena Vista St
Burbank, CA 91521

The Kid Rasta 8)

 

Like that is going to work screw TV keep it alive in your real life.

 

Kid to contact them is like trying to find your e-mail addy or website. Like I said before they will not respond to me or any other member of this website.

 

If the producers get enough letters, they certainly will respond.

The Kid Rasta 8)

 

IR on TV is not some magic bullet to get white chicks to run up on just because they have seen it on 90210 and wold you want a chick like that anyway. I say don't be a fad my brothers get down with chicks that are into brothers without having to coached by a TV show.

 

True,but I wished there is more deep IR on this show.

 

So I saw the 2hr premiere tonight. I must say, it was better than I expected.

I'm not sure how it will all play out but I could see it lasting for a while.

 

yup, a bunch of homos.

join the club.

 

Tristan Wilds: a Beverly Hills Dominican
Lee Hernández

Wednesday, September 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM

Remember “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the syrupy, angst-ridden 1990s hit series set at fictional West Beverly High School?

Well, it’s back with more upscale boutiques, classic Corvettes and romance — and a little bit of color.

“I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don’t look Latino enough,” says Tristan Wilds, who debuted last night in a lead role, as African-American Dixon Wilson, in the CW revival “90210.”

The son of a Dominican mother and African-American father, Wilds, of Staten Island, got his big break as troubled youth Michael Lee on the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire.”

Next month, you can see him in movie theaters in “The Secret Life of Bees,” co-starring Queen Latifah, an adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s book about racism and segregation in the ’60s.

Meanwhile, he’s having a blast working on the updated, more provocative version of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the show that all but invented TV teen drama.

“We are a close cast. It’s like a fraternity, like being back in school,” he says.

His character, a teenager with behavioral problems, ends up adopted by an Irish family in Kansas and given a second chance.

“They basically save him,” says Wilds. “And then he has to adapt to life in Beverly Hills when the family moves to California to take care of an alcoholic grandmother.”

Wilds, who stands 5 feet 11 and is beautifully tanned, can light up a room with his sunny smile and dimples ? just like his character.

The original “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which ran for 10 years, had kids dealing with a host of issues, including abortion, addiction, eating disorders, homosexuality — even mother/daughter fashion shows gone horribly wrong.

To prepare for the role, Wilds had to watch the full run of the original show, but found it too female-oriented for his taste.

“I keep my manhood intact,” he says, only half-joking.

Wilds says he expects the new show to be edgier, wilder and more in tune with the experiences of today’s teens.

He is one of two nonwhite cast members. The other is half-Ecuadoran Michael Steger, who plays Navid Shirazi, a high-school journalist of Iranian descent.

Wilds says he likes the weather and the beaches out West, but there are some things about New York he just can’t get off his mind.

“I love L.A. — don’t get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York,” he says. “I don’t eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I’m a really big fan of Latino food.”

What he really wants, he says, is “to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo.”

 

He's half black American and half Dominican and has the name "Tristan Wilds." You are black homie.

And Los Angeles has the best Latino cuisine there is, Mexican. Beats the shit out of Carribean latino food.

 

The island of Hispaniola has a lot of African blood thanks to the French and Spanish. There is hardly any indigenous people since there was so much mixture over the centuries.

 

There is no such thing as a Latino race, only an American perception of what Latinos are supposed to look like. Also...the Dominican Republic is neighbors with Haiti and BOTH islands were populated by African slaves once the indigenous populations "died off" thanks to the European arrival. One island's population speaks French and therefore tbhe blacks there are seen as black. The other island's poulation speaks Spanish and miraculously its blacks are classified in the Hispanic/Latino racial category. Silly. Like I said there is no Hispanic/Latino race because any race of people can technically be Latino/Hispanic. Most Americans don't get that.