Executives at The CW network, which giveth 90210 and taketh away The Beautiful Life, believe the only way to carry a remade series is to bring back its original cast members. This generates buzz, and opportunities for mothers and tweenage daughters to share quality time together in front of a glowing screen. Which is why folks like Laura Leighton, Thomas Calabro, Josie Bissett, Daphne Zuniga, and Heather Locklear all returned to the remade zip code program. But Doug Savant, who played Matt Fielding, says he won’t be accepting producers’ invitation to return to the show. Which sucks.
Not because we’ll miss Savant (who’s a Desperate Housewives regular, which is the reason he cites as why he can’t do Melrose), but because his character is just as relevant today as it was then.
Fielding was fired for being gay. Gay bashed. Victimized by homophobia. Nevermind that Fielding was killed off the show (car accident!), but if somehow he could have returned from San Francisco to visit La La Land, we could be introduced to the guy who, twenty-some-odd years later, is a strapping self-confident success.
In the meantime, how does a tween show like 90210 get by without a gay character? Who writes these things?
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You realize that Doug Savant was on the original Melrose Place, not 90210, right?
Scott
Um, whoever wrote this needs a better editor, and needs to check their facts.
The show you’re talking about is Melrose Place, not 90210.
Even the headline says Melrose Place!
scott ny'er
LOL. 90210/Melrose place eff up.
Why should Doug come back? His character sucked then and probably would suck now.
TomEM
What about “Kimberly”? She too busy too?
Same Crap
The years have not been kind to Mr.Savant.
B
I’ve worked with him and he is gorgeous in person…and the NICEST actor I’ve ever dealt with.
Brian
90210 will soon have Rumor Willis as a lesbian …
Lance Rockland
Matt was practically a MONK! Everybody on that show was getting laid left and right except for him.
FOX infamously censored a same-sex kiss back in 1994. Two men kissing on the mouth was a big no-no.
The new show is lame anyways.
alan brickman
he kept showing gays as victims…don’t need that today…
chango
@B:
Same.
PNT
His character was killed off (in Melrose Place) and I doubt he was approached to be recast. Fabrication is never condoned 😉
kajuanchosen
I think people are confusing the first 3 paragraphs with the 4th paragraph.
Paragraph 1-3 discuss Fielding as character on MP.
Last paragraph wonders how a show like 90210 (same soapy genre as MP) gets away w/ 0 gay folks.
I think the writer is asking bsically how the same folks that pretty much created a genre of Cali-something hip, slick and cool folks including Fielding (who was gay) miss the boat with not having a character on 90210, *NOT* that Fielding *WAS* on 90210…hence the transitional phrase “In the meantime…” which begins 4th paragraph…
unless it basically said that Fielding was on 90210 and the writer edited this prior to 220am CST on 9/17…and then I (as well as the writer) stand corrected and he should be boiled in oil for heresy 🙂