'Gossip Girl' Update Lands Straight-to-Series Order at HBO Max

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WarnerMedia's streaming service HBO Max has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for an update of the teen drama. The original show ran on The CW from 2007-12 and helped launch the careers of stars Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick.
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Joshua Safran, an EP of the original CW series, is writing the new take; creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are also on board.


Hey Upper East Siders, get ready for some big news: Gossip Girl is returning to TV.

WarnerMedia's streaming service HBO Max has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for an update of the series. The original show ran on The CW from 2007-12 and helped launch the careers of stars Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick.

Joshua Safran, who was showrunner of the original in its later seasons, will write and executive produce the new version. Series creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will also serve as exec producers.

"It's something we've been talking about — Josh, Stephanie and I — for a little bit, just in terms of, 'Is this something we want to explore?' We're all so in love with the original and had such an incredible time working on it, and it's such a big part of our lives," Safran told The Hollywood Reporter. "Then the stars aligned and we had availability to jump, and Warners, obviously, it's something they're very passionate about. It seemed like the best time and also the best way to do it."

Safran declined to comment to THR on plot details or whether characters from the original could make an appearance. He described the show as an "extension" of the original; the logline for the new series reads, "Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years."
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apart from certain bits of cheesiness the first season of the original is one of the best of its genre and an NY classic baby.
I've always said it has a great pilot. if you won't like it, you'll never like the show.
 
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