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'90210' SPINOFF TO BE MORE RACIALLY DIVERSE: Casting breakdowns leave key role open to actors of all ethnicities.
*Stop the presses. It appears as if The CW's planned spinoff of "Beverly Hills, 90210" will be more racially diverse than its original run.
According to Variety, casting breakdowns and TVTracker.com report of the new version including a 16-year-old character named Dixon, who was adopted by the show's centerpiece, the Mills family. According to the breakdowns, producers are open to actors of all ethnicities for the Dixon role, leaving open the possibility that the character won't be a white male.
Navid Shirazi produces the high school's student-run video newscast and is of Middle Eastern descent, according to reports.
Meanwhile, the Mills family consists of 60-something matriarch Tabitha Mills (a former 70s star-turned-alcoholic who's fresh from a stint at the Betty Ford Clinic), her do-gooder son Harrison Mills, his wife Celia and their two 16-year-olds, Dixon and biological child, Annie.
The CW still has yet to greenlight the planned spinoff.
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