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Gossip Girl and 90210 have been getting all the press, but there's another rich-kids show coming to The CW this season -- remember Privileged? It debuts tonight, and The Mercury News says it's not necessarily what you expect. Yes, there are wealthy teens at the center of the show, but the paper says the "breezy new drama that is more 'Gilmore Girls' than 'Gossip Girl'" and praises its "sweet spirit," saying the show has "more heart and humanity than one might expect."

Privileged marks the return of Reba's Joanna Garcia to The CW screen, and Garcia tells Tampa Bay Online she's thrilled to be back. Producer-writer Rina Mimoun compares Garcia to the fast-talking mom on one of her previous shows, Gilmore Girls.

"We were stuck in the casting until JoAnna read for the role," she said during an interview at the Television Critics Association's fall preview tour in July. "The character has to have heart and a sense of irony ... a mixture of youthful inexperience, sensible maturity and be a fish out of water in Palm Beach society.... Tonally, we want it to also be like 'Clueless' and 'The Devil Wears Prada'."

Garcia's Megan meets her match in Sage, one of the rich girls she's hired to tutor. But even Sage isn't quite what she seems, actress Ashley Newbrough tells the Fresno Bee. "Sage is very different from the typical mean rich girl. She is very damaged. When the sisters lost their parents, Sage made the decision to be the more protective one and take more control of their lives."

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