90210 (season 5)
The fifth and final season of "90210" was announced on May 3, 2012. On May 17, 2012, it was announced that the show's fifth season would be moving back to Mondays at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central followed by the sixth season of "Gossip Girl" at 9:00pm. The season premiered on October 8, 2012. The fifth season of "90210" follows the group from West Beverly kids as they navigate life after high school. Their journey into adulthood will find them heading in different directions while trying to keep the same closeness that worked so well for them in high school.
Teen drama
One of the first shows to be centered solely on teenagers, "Degrassi Junior High" (and later its spin-off "Degrassi High"), became popular in both its native Canada as well as in the United States when it aired in that country on PBS during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1990, Darren Star created "Beverly Hills, 90210", in partnership with prolific television producer Aaron Spelling. The popularity of teen dramas in the 1990s and 2000s is most often attributed to the massive success of this primetime soap, which portrayed the lives of a group of wealthy teens living in Beverly Hills, California. The stars of "90210", most notably Jason Priestley and Luke Perry, became teen idols. The series became a pop culture phenomenon and drew a large audience; "90210" remained popular through the first half of the 1990s, and remained on the air until 2000, becoming the third longest running teen drama in history (after "Grange Hill" and "", which surpassed "90210" for second place with its 11th season in 2011).