Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green are starring in a vertical microdrama for vertTV, per Deadline. The "Beverly Hills, 90210" co-stars wrapped shooting in Los Angeles, and Carol Potter, who played Cindy Walsh, is in it too. The app's pitch: "Powered by human intelligence," with "real actors on real sets without the use of generative AI."
The press release is the show. Read it again: "Powered by human intelligence." Hollywood is now selling its product the way a used car lot sells inventory — come take a look, baby, it runs. The 90210 reunion has been demoted from television to a thing you scroll past while standing in line. Carol Potter is doing a vertical THRILLER. Jodie Sweetin is doing a vertical FULLER HOUSE REUNION. The entire app is a reunion. Nobody in 1994 said "vertical." Nobody had a phone. Everyone had a better problem.
Prestige TV is dead, and it wasn't the algorithm that did it. It was the thumb. The new 90210 doesn't need a timeslot. It needs a charging cable and a woman in the 90s who was already on the internet in the 2000s.
YOUR TURN: How many vertical 90210 episodes until a reunion officially becomes a content farm?
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