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Gossip
Girl is an American television teen
drama based on the popular novel series of
the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar.
Gossip Girl revolves around the lives
of socialite young adults growing up on New
York City's Upper East Side who attend elite
academic institutions while dealing with
sex, drugs, jealousy, and other teenage
issues. Featuring an ensemble cast, the
series begins by introducing Serena van der
Woodsen (Blake Lively) and best friend Blair
Waldorf (Leighton Meester), as well as
Blair's on-off boyfriend Nate Archibald (Chace
Crawford), Nate's best friend Chuck Bass (Ed
Westwick), Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), who
dated Serena during most of the first
season, Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen), who
become involved in the lives of the main
characters despite being less inclined to
merge with the upper-east-side crowd and
Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) who is Dan's
best friend. The series is narrated by a
seemingly omniscient character, "Gossip
Girl" (voiced by Kristen Bell), who runs a
blog about her fellow Upper East Siders —
consequently stirring the pot and creating
potential rivalries in this exclusive and
vicious circle of friends. The show was
developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie
Savage, who also serve as executive
producers alongside Bob Levy and Leslie
Morgenstein. It is produced by Warner Bros.
Television, College Hill Productions and
Alloy Entertainment.
The series
first aired on September 18, 2007 in Canada
on CTV before premiering in the U.S. a day
later on September 19, 2007 on The CW,
following America's Next Top Model.
The premiere episode also became available
on the iTunes Store as a free download on
September 14, 2007, four days before the
series' debut. The show received the first
full season order of 22 episodes of the
2007/2008 television season of the five
major broadcast networks when The CW picked
it up in October 2007.
Gossip Girl
returned on Monday, April 21, 2008, with
five new episodes to follow. The CW
announced on March 3, 2008 that Gossip
Girl would return for a second season
consisting of 24 episodes. In Canada, CTV
will send the series down to the relaunched
A-Channel for the second season, Sundays at
8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central.
The second
season premiered September 1, 2008 on The
CW.
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