OK, I'm all for great actors getting work, but did they really have to cast two of my favorite actors from two of my all-time favorite shows in the new 90210?

First, straight from "The Wire," which arguably depicts life in America's worst zip codes, those of inner city Baltimore, is Tristan Wilds. I mean, is this where Michael Lee went when he had to flee Baltimore after killing Snoop? Is there a great crossover episode at work here?

Next, coming off three seasons of classic comedy as the matriarch of the disfunctional Bluth clan on "Arrested Development," is Jessica Walter. This is going to be less of a stretch. She's apparently playing the same person, just one who's on firmer financial ground than the Bluths.

This show is going to have a lot of competition, the last two decades of youth TV basically being one gigantic copy of the original 90210, so I don't want to curse it. I'm just going to have a hard time watching these actors and not thinking of their previous work.

The preview:

And here's Michael Lee, before he fled to Beverly Hills, in one of the best assassination scenes since Fredo got it in Godfather II -- the killing of Snoop:

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