I Got You, Shannen!

Shannen Doherty has shaved her head in preparation for her breast-cancer treatment, and she chronicled the move on her Instagram.

It’s a brave, bold move that surely is meant to bring us along for the journey in order to bring strength from our collective well wishes.

And all I have to say is I got you, girl!

Doherty confirmed she’s in the fight of her life almost a year ago.

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Standing with Shannen

Shannen Doherty has breast cancer.

The erstwhile Prue from TV’s Charmed – and, of course, the Brenda Walsh of the 90210 hills of Beverly – confirmed news of her illness this week, after it was reported that she had filed a lawsuit against her former business manager for failing to pay her insurance premiums, which resulted in the cancellation of her policy and to an inability to receive the medical care she finds herself needing.

We all know that Doherty is a tough chick, so let’s stand with her and send her the bestest vibes so she can stand up to cancer herself and kick cancer right where it needs to be kicked.

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Doherty Reality

One of my favorite gals, Shannen Doherty, is about to get real, y’all.

The erstwhile Hollywood hellcat is eyeing a comeback via WEtv that will follow all the drama – how Brenda of her! – surrounding her upcoming nuptials to her celebrity photographer-fiancé, Kurt Iswarienko, and her Malibu home renovations.

“People will see a side of Shannen they never expected to see,” an exec for the cabler said.

The plan is to have the as-yet-untitled show premiere next January, and end the first season with the happy couple’s wedding.

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The Bad Girl’s Dance

Pamela Anderson and Kate Gosselin, you’re about to get schooled.

The two blond non-MILFs are going up against Hollywood’s original bad girl, Shannen freakin’ Doherty, on the new season of TV’s Dancing with the Stars.

The cast also includes Buzz Aldrin, sexy Winter Olympian Evan Lysacek, Niecy Nash (Comedy Central’s Reno 911!), and Nicole “MVPussycat Doll” Scherzinger.

Team Doherty all the way! Like, I just may have to tune in all the way.

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To the Pumpkin Patch She Goes

I’m officially worried about Shannen Doherty’s career.

The actress has signed on to star in a holiday-themed Hallmark Channel original movie set to premiere a year from now.

You know, for the whole family to watch and whatnot.

I guess she’s serious about dropping the bitch act.

Doherty has been cast in Growing the Big One, which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.

I still think she’d be perfect on True Blood as Debbie Pelt, the psycho ex-girlfriend of third-season player, the werewolf Alcide.

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Dropping the Bitch Act

Shannen Doherty is re-inventing herself as a lady of comedy.

The actress is fed up with her bitch persona, so she’s putting the final touches on a reality-type show, reportedly to show her “lighter and funnier” side.

Ew – reality? She can do so much better than that.

Doherty will not only star in the project, tentatively titled Shannen (how inspired!), but she will also produce. She has apparently met with several networks.

Uh, call E!, dear.

Or better yet: Call your agent and tell them to get you on, I dunno, True Blood or something. I read the HBO hit show needs someone to play Debbie Pelt, the psycho ex-girlfriend of third-season player, the werewolf Alcide.

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Gird Your Loins

Brenda Walsh will be back.

Again.

At a movie premiere in L.A. last night, the original bad girl, Shannen Doherty, confirmed Kelly Taylor’s worst fears: her all-time frenemy B.W. will be going back to America’s most famous zip code for the first-season finale of The CW’s 90210.

Drama will follow for sure.

Love it!

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Once a Hot Zip Code, Always a Hot Zip Code

We knew she was coming – we just didn’t know how she’d make her entrance.

Last night, though, at the 88-minute mark of The CW’s 90210 two-hour premiere, Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty, pictured at right) walked into the Peach Pit and ordered a shake and French fries (extra crispy).

And thus, a 14-year wait to see her again ended, with Nat (Joe E. Tata) saying, to Brenda and Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth), “Oh, it’s so good to see both of ya in this place again.”

Indeed, it is.

The new show, which is based on Darren Star’s 1990-2000-running fan fave, focuses, of course, on a new group of people, but it was the nostalgia of the Brenda-Kelly reunion that made me watch…which isn’t to say I won’t be tuning in again next week.

I’m so glad the fall TV season started early this year.

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Duh’nuh-nuh-nuh, Duh’nuh-nuh-nuh

Swoosh swoosh!

The return of America’s favorite zip code – and Shannen Doherty! – is upon us, and Jennie Garth and Doherty are gracing the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week to let everyone know about it.

This is major for The CW, an upstart network that in spite of having buzzed-about shows like Gossip Girl and Smallville on schedule – and having once had Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls as its crown jewels – had yet to score this type of coverage.

Not since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I don’t think, has EW given young-adult-targeted shows such a plum spot.

The article covers the reunion between the old co-stars, who appear to have left the past in the past, next to those persistent fistfight rumors.

It also contains their in-unison “No” when they were asked if they ever imagined they’d be working together again, and previews and spoilers about the 90210 remake that’s bringing Brenda Walsh from London back to California and for a visit with her frenemy Kelly Taylor.

I cannot wait for the two-hour premiere on Sept. 2. It’s going to be great to see these two on screen.
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She’s Baaack!

Shannen Doherty is headed back to the 90210 – and she’s bringing the drama with her when she goes.

Doherty’s Brenda Walsh was written off Beverly Hills, 90210 after the show’s fourth season due the actress’ reported off-screen antics. Ms. Walsh left for London, and was never seen on screen again.

Until now.

Brenda, who became a famous actress and then a famous director while across the pond, will be back via The CW’s remake of the show this fall, as a guest of her old high school, to stage a play.

Doherty’s former co-star, Tori Spelling (who’s also expected to appear in the new 90210) calls the return “amazing.”

Uh duh.

“That’s probably the best news the fans could ever get,” Spelling told People this weekend.

No, Tor-Tor – that’s the most amazing news we could ever get.

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Is That You Brenda?

In his new Ausiello Files column for EW.com, Michael Ausiello reported today that Shannen Doherty is “in formal talks” to reprise her star-making role of Brenda Walsh in The CW’s remake of Beverly Hills, 90210.

Ausiello says the producers behind 90210, recently met with Hollywood’s infamous hellraiser to gauge her interest in returning to the zip code from which she was banished in 1994. And, whaddya know, she is interested.

“But,” Ausiello’s insider said, “she wants to know what the story is going to be first.” And she also wants more money than they’re offering. (Doherty’s former – and future? – co-stars, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling already are attached to the remake.)

I always thought original-flavor 90210 never was the same after Brenda left for London, so I’m extremely curious to find out what she’s been up to all these years. And it’s always a treat to see Doherty, one of my favorites, on the tube.

Photo: EW.com.