After just four episodes, Channel 10 hasn't just moved one of the hottest new teen dramas to a weaker timeslot, it's dumped the show altogether.

The much-hyped series, which is a remake of the '90s phenomenon Beverly Hills 90210 and catapulted Hollywood stars Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry and Jennie Garth to fame, has been dumped due to poor ratings in Australia. The show only had 616,000 viewers in its last screening in prime time and fell well short of expected numbers with 837,000 viewers during its pilot.

Ten had initially decided to move the program to Friday evenings but the network has now decided that the show won't return until the non-ratings period over the summer.

Ten purchased 90210 before viewing the pilot and had hoped it would live up to the hype.