Shannen Doherty's reputation isn't usually enhanced when she gets fired, but that may be changing.

We're sitting in a session for UPN's "Love, Inc.," a sitcom about a dating service that originally starred the resume-challenged Doherty and Mount Airy's own Holly Robinson Peete, and both Peete and exec producer Warren Littlefield can't say enough good things about Doherty.

They're using words like "fabulous," "professional," "terrific," words you usually only hear when the former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star is on her way in, not out.

"She was there on set early" every working morning, says Littlefield.

And yet when "Love, Inc." premieres Sept. 22, it will be doing it without Doherty (whose replacement has yet to be named).

So what happend this time?

The network didn't want her, apparently.

But hey, it's all good. She may not have a job, but she's made a buddy.

"We had a terrific relationship," says Peete, adding that Doherty recently showed up at one of Peete's Parkinson's disease fund-raisers and bid successfully for a lease on a Maserati.

"I made a friend. I dig her."