The CW will kick off its fall campaign on Sept. 8 with the sophomore year of “90210? and the bow of “Melrose Place.”

Net has also decided to flop the time slots of its Monday dramas, which will send “Gossip Girl” to the 9 p.m. hour.

It’s the second year in a row that “90210? is the centerpiece of the net’s fall launch campaign, and CW is hoping that anticipation will be high for the remodeled “Melrose.” CW is getting a jumpstart on its competish by launching the week of Sept. 8, but it won’t be quite as quick out of the gate as last year, when the net’s fall sked launched on Labor Day.

If they’re anything like the old shows, the new 90210 and the upcoming Melrose Place revamp will have some characters crisscrossing between them.

Right now, however, it doesn’t sound like anything definite has been decided.

“I don’t know,” said Shenae Grimes, who plays Annie on 90210, when I recently asked her about the possibility. “I’ve heard rumors, but you know, rumors are rumors.”

What’s not a rumor is Annie’s turn from a Goody Two-shoes to a bad girl. Grimes said there were never any plans for her character to get darker, but one day…

“My producer sat me down and was like, ‘Shenae, there is just some sort of intensity behind your eyes. We’ve got to bring it out somehow,’ ” Grimes recalled. ”I was like, ‘All right! Cool! Better challenge for me. I get to stir up trouble at work, awesome.’ ”

And speaking of trouble, Grimes said recent tabloid reports that she was kidnapped as a child are rubbish.

“Don’t believe everything you read,” she said. “There was a very minor incident that was blown way out of proportion.”

Child abduction, she said, is not something that should be sensationalized.

“It’s a serious subject,” Grimes said. “It should not be made light of. My heart goes out to anyone who that has happened to, but it has not happened to me.”

As I promised!

I’ll add captures from last episode tomorrow!

Finally! Sorry guys for not updating but I was really busy with my school. So, I’ve added tons of HQ photos to the gallery. For TV Guide scan thanks to Britt. Enjoy!

Out promoting their hit CW show, the stars of “90210” were front and center at PaleyFest09 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.

Leading the way were “90210” hotty Shenae Grimes, who was joined by Matt Latner, Ryan Eggold, Rob Estes, Jessica Stroup and Rebecca Rand Kirshner Sinclair for the Diablo Cody-led panel discussion.

During the course of the evening, Shenae talked about her character’s journey this season, saying:

“I think it’s been a struggle, I think it’s been a roller coaster. There are times when she’s straying from her roots a little bit more. And I think there are times, usually when she’s in trouble, where she comes back to those roots… she kind of stumbles back into the values she was raised with.”