News Roundup: One Tree Hill, 90210, Gossip Girl, and The O.C.

19 08 2009
  • This is the first promo pic I’ve seen for One Tree Hill season 7.  The background looks incredibly fake and the cast looks photoshopped together from individual pics.
  • Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) is *not* in this week’s SoGoPro podcast.
  • Korbi posted pictures from the 90210 season 2 premiere.
  • There are also spoilish pictures floating around.
  • TVGuideMagazine.com is saying Ryan Eggold (Ryan, 90210) won’t be crossing over to Melrose Place but I’m still confused.  Instead, apparently, Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) and Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210)–who both appeared on the original Melrose–are on their wishlist.
  • Garth apparently deleted her Twitter account.
  • AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) stopped by my old stomping grounds (the Seventeen office).  You can read the interview here.
  • GlamBuzz and GlamBush also have interviews with McCord.
  • There’s a video of Laura Leighton (Sophie, Beverly Hills 90210) discussing her return to Melrose Place.
  • 90210 and Gossip Girl are included on Latina.com’s list of 25 Can’t Miss Shows Starring Latin Actors.
  • The New York Post posted the gag reel from the new Gossip Girl DVD.
  • Gossip Girl will be one of the shows available on YouTube, thanks to a deal with Time Warner.
  • Even though a relationship hasn’t been confirmed, Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl) and Twilight’s Ashley Greene are in a PEOPLE.com poll on summer romances.
  • One of the members of Cobra Starship admitted he didn’t know who Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) was before they collaborated on Good Girls Go Bad.
  • E!Online has an article on The Beautiful Life that says storylines for Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) won’t be altered due to her recent personal issues.  The story also says a crossover with Gossip Girl is possible.
  • E!Online also has an interview with Peter Gallagher (Sandy, The O.C.) on his Californication role.




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and More

13 08 2009
  • Apparently if you were purchasing your 90210 season one DVD at Target, you were supposed to get a bonus DVD with an exclusive interview but there was a mix up and that didn’t happen.
  • Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210) discussed her character with the Los Angeles Times.
  • According to E!Online’s gossip columnist, AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) but Kellan Lutz (George 90210) have broken up–which makes no sense, since they’ve both said they were never dating in the first place.
  • Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly  Hills 90210) spoke about Twilight’s Rob Pattinson at an event last week.
  • In an interview with AccessHollywood.com, Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210) compares The Lake to 90210, and definitively states he won’t be appearing on the spin-off.
  • Degrassi’s Lauren Collins said the original 90210 “reigns supreme.”
  • Kristin and Ausiello have spoilish Gossip Girl info on the new season.
  • Sonic Youth will appear on Gossip Girl’s fifth episode of the new season.
  • I guess I have to start believing this Twitter account for Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) is real, as Valebrity.com has it listed.
  • The CW Source has now posted the One Tree Hill video interview I linked to yesterday.  There’s also this one, which isn’t up yet either.
  • PEOPLE.com posted a new promo photo of The Beautiful Life, featuring Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.).
  • Not sure if you guys want this kind of stuff (I guess it depends on your definition of celebrity) but Heidi Montag tweeted that she was watching The O.C.
  • Busy Philipps (Audrey, Dawson’s Creek) is on Twitter.




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill

6 08 2009
  • TV.com has a piece criticizing The CW for all its remakes, including 90210.
  • E! Online posted an interesting video interview with Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210).
  • The season finale of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, starring Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) scored the best ratings in history for the Oxygen network.
  • Travis Van Winkle will appear on 90210 this season, as a college student at CU–the same fiction college used on the original series.
  • PEOPLE.com posted a great video of Kellan Lutz (George, 90210) at a Twilight event.
  • Aimee Teegarden (Rhonda, 90210) will guest-star on Legend of the Seeker.
  • 90210, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill all have nominations in the Favorite Reccuring Character category in the Sourcies.
  • Ausiello TV has interviews with several teen drama stars.




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and More

4 08 2009
  • Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl) will be  a presenter at the VMAs, according to PEOPLE.com.
  • There is a Web site for the Gossip Girl Season 2 DVD.
  • Perez Hilton posted two Gossip Girl filming pics.
  • Tyra Banks tweeted about her upcoming Gossip Girl appearance.
  • Kelly Rutherford (Lily, Gossip Girl) has temporarily worked out her family-marital problems.
  • At the TCA Press Tour, CW exec Dawn Ostroff said the Gossip Girl spin-off is “unlikely” and a 90210-Melrose Place cross-over is possible.  There *could* be a different GG spin-off though.
  • The Wrap has an interesting interview with Ostroff.
  • Jessica Lowndes (Adrianna, 90210) will appear on America’s Next Top Model in October.
  • Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) says she doesn’t want the schedule of being a show regular/lead anymore.
  • USA Today has an article on the Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210)/Candy Spelling drama.
  • Star News has two stories on TCA, including one with One Tree Hill photos and some details on the new season.
  • Dan (Paul Johansson, One Tree Hill) is included in a SoapNet photo gallery on characters accused of murder.
  • Ashton Kutcher said Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) continue on with The Beautiful Life and “is very prominent” on the show.  He also called The O.C. a “big soap opera.”
  • Ausiello described The Vampire Diaries as “Supernatural meets Twilight meets Dawson’s Creek.”  (It was created by Kevin Williamson, who also did DC.)




YouTube Video of the Week

5 07 2009

Did you know the Twilight series features FOUR teen drama stars!  Three of them are even from the same show!

Kellan Lutz (George, 90210), Jackson Rathbone (Justin, The O.C.) and Nikki Reed (Sadie, The O.C.) appear in both Twilight and its sequel New Moon, while Cam Gigandet (Volchok, The O.C.) is just in the first film.

Enjoy the clips and pic below.

Kellan Lutz

Me and Kellan





News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and More

9 06 2009
  • The drama beteween Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) and her mother Candy is still going on, according to PEOPLE.
  • Spelling spoke with Extra about her views on the Gosselin family, and whether she’ll ever participate in Dancing with the Stars. (Ian Ziering [Steve, Beverly Hills 90210] and Jennie Garth [Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210] have already competed!)
  • EW.com posted an adorable clip of Garth and husband Peter Facinelli (from Twilight and Nurse Jackie) on Cheslsea Lately back in February. (Also worth noting that Facinelli co-starred with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen [Valerie, Beverly Hills 90210] on the series Fastlane back in 2002!)
  • Thiessen got a shout-out on last night’s Jimmy Fallon Show when “Zack Morris” made an appearance to discuss the proposed Saved by the Bell reunion.  Thiessen, who played Kelly Kapowski, hasn’t agreed to it yet.
  • Jacksonville.com has an article on the “90210 effect”–the new trend of remaking once-popular television shows.
  • The CW Source has a video interview with Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210).
  • The short-lived hook-up between Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) is up for “sex scene that made you want to throw out your TV” in the Tater Tops Awards.  (Ironically, the couple is still going strong in real life.  I’m just full of fun facts today!)
  • Westwick told E! Online that the craziest rumor he’s heard about himself is that he is having weight troubles.
  • Westwick, Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Jackson Brundage (Jamie, One Tree Hill) are all included in SoapNet’s Our Favorite Overlooked Actors gallery.
  • Autumn Reeser (Taylor, The O.C.) shared her wedding details with PEOPLE.com.




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210 and One Tree Hill and More

22 05 2009
  • E!Online and Korbi have coverage of the CW upfront.  Some claim the Gossip Girl spin-off isn’t completely dead but I don’t believe them.
  • Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) discussed her music career with MTV.
  • PEOPLE is asking readers to give their opinion on Blake Lively’s (Serena, Gossip Girl) “best look.”
  • You can see the kinda new promo pics for Gossip Girl, 90210 and One Tree Hill here.  And here you can read the new descriptions released at the upfront.
  • Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) says she’ll “absolutely” appear on 90210 again.
  • Mega Minute is reporting (*CORRECTED LINK*) that the 90210 cast is shocked by the firing of Dustin Milligan (Ethan, 90210) and they don’t know how things will be wrapped up for his character.
  • AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) says she made the decision not to join the Twilight New Moon cast (as opposed to not getting the role).
  • jitZul has an interview with Colin Fickes (Jimmy, One Tree Hill).
  • In an interest new interview, Joe Manganiello (Owen, One Tree Hill) says that scenes showing Owen and Brooke continuing their relationship never aired.
  • Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) is only a supporting character in Beautiful Life.
  • Parental Discretion Advised (formerly called Light Years), starring Kerr Smith (Jack, Dawson’s Creek) was given a mid-season pick-up by The CW.




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and More

18 03 2009
  • Jossip has a very un-complimentary look at some CW actresses, including Shannen Doherty (Brenda, 90210), Jennie Garth (Kelly, 90210), Kelly Rutherford (Lily, Gossip Girl) and Mischa Barton (Sonja, A Beautiful Life).
  • Annie (Shenae Grimes, 90210) is getting a new enemy in Phoebe, to be played by Lily Collins.
  • JustJared has photos of the 90210 cast doing their Habitat for Humanity project.
  • Jessica Lucas (Kimberly, 90210) has been cast in the Melrose Place remake.
  • Photos surfaced of Blair (Leighton Meester) kissing Nate (Chace Crawford) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) in the same outfit.  E!Online is wondering if it’s just to throw fans off.  You decide.  Or just wait for the episode to air!  (A similar photo of Blair and Chuck is in the March 30th issue of PEOPLE.)
  • In the same PEOPLE issue, there’s also a tiny photo of Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) and her “idol” singer Debbie Harry.
  • Also in that issue, Sebastian Stan (Carter, Gossip Girl) doesn’t confirm or deny that he’s engaged to Meester.  He just says “I don’t pay attention [to reports].  My friends trust my word above anything else they hear.”
  • Westwick is included in a TVGuide.com photo gallery of “Foreign Actors with Great American Accents.”
  • No Doubt will appear as Snowed Out in the May 11th episode of Gossip Girl as part of the Lily flashback.
  • Josh Schwartz talks about the Gossip Girl spin-off here but it’s nothing we don’t already know.
  • Nikki Reed (Sadie, The O.C.) says she goes to Jennie Garth’s (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) house to play poker with her Twilight co-star and Garth’s husband, Peter Facinelli.
  • There’s a strange promo for next week’s One Tree Hill with the cast appearing as characters from The Sims.
  • The New York Post deemed student-teacher relationships on TV the “Pacey Witter Effect.”




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and More

5 02 2009
  • Tuesday night’s 90210 scored in the ratings by achieving double-digit growth in all the key demographics.
  • PEOPLE confirms that Shannen Doherty (Brenda) will be back on 90210 later this season but no clue as to what the storyline will be.
  • As teased during last night’s episode, the Jonas Brothers will give a sneak peak of their new movie during next week’s 90210 and give a special performance.  Jessica Lowdnes (Adrianna) says she hopes the Jo Bros will actually be on the show at some point.
  • The New York Post has an interview with Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights) about her new role as Rhonda on 90210.
  • E!Online is reporting that AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) could be cast in the Twilight sequel.
  • Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) is the new face of K-Swiss sneakers.  You can see one of the ads here.
  • Ausiello is reporting that, in an Anne Hathaway-like storyline, Serena (Blake Lively, Gossip Girl) will fall for a European guy who turns out to be less than genuine.  This will eventually lead to Georgina’s (Michelle Trachtenberg) return.
  • Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) has cast Austin Nichols (Julian, One Tree Hill) in a movie she’s making, and he hijacked her blog to tell you all about it.
  • Instead of watching the Superbowl, one writer created Dawson’s Bowl 2009 after, yep, Dawson’s Creek.
  • Closing The Ring, starring Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) has been released on DVD.




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill

30 01 2009
  • If you’re into Twilight and like the soundtrack, you can thank Gossip Girl and The O.C.’s music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas.
  • A new article suggests it would’ve been more realistic to have Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes, 90210) get the abortion.
  • Check out the box cover for the Beverly Hills, 90210 season 7 DVD!  Unlike the seasons 5 and 6 covers, Clare (Kathleen Robertson) is actually in it!
  • Even though in both the original 90210 and the spin-off, they went to West Beverly High, the actual Beverly Hills High School is trying to profit off the show, with this merchandise.
  • A new interview with Ashley Rickards (Sam, One Tree Hill) promises more “little fights” with Brooke (Sophia Bush).