Why 90210 cancelled

I watched it with my adult daughter. She was a child when it was originally on in the s and enjoyed watching it with her cousin. I think they should have just kept it to the original characters. It would have been more interesting. Google it. Definitely would have watched again. It was entertaining and funny! Love the twist. Nothing like it on t. I loved it and wish it was renewed.

Hopefully another network or streaming platform will see its value and pick it up. Home News Cancelled or Renewed? Next Post ». Inline Feedbacks. One half of the acting team who portrayed the mother show's iconic, alpha couple, Brenda Walsh and Dylan McKay, was not and could be a part of the BH revival.

While Shannen Doherty Brenda agreed to appear in only the debut episode sending up her famous reputation as a behind-the-scenes troublemaker , Luke Perry Dylan was absent. Just before production on the series began, he died in March at the age of 52 "after suffering a massive stroke," according to his publicist, who spoke with CNN.

What was supposed to be a light and breezy new take on a light and breezy TV chestnut took on a sad, dark tone in the wake of Perry's death. Television is a business, of course, and networks aim to make as much money as possible by putting potentially popular shows on the air and then selling advertising time during those shows on the promise that millions of people are watching.

Networks like Fox use Nielsen ratings and other metrics to determine just how many people tune in to a show, and if that number is too low, it's not profitable or even cost effective to keep spending millions of dollars to make a show that doesn't justify the ad buys. In other words, low-rated shows get canceled — it's just business. That appears to be exactly what happened with BH , the revival of Beverly Hills, According to The Wrap , the series premiere in August brought in a healthy 1.

Viewer curiosity dropped off quickly and precipitously, however, with subsequent episodes scoring a 1. Sources say 13 writers quit the show throughout its run. The revival of the teen soap, in which the original stars all played heightened versions of themselves, was relatively inexpensive to make, even though Fox paid a licensing fee to producers CBS TV Studios.

The new salaries were a far cry from what many industry insiders anticipated for a pseudo-reboot of a beloved series with nearly the full cast participating. The cancellation arrives after the original cast had hoped that BH would run for multiple seasons. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Type keyword s to search. Related Story.