Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...

is a teen drama which premiered on September 19, 2007 in the United States on The CW. Gossip Girl is based on the young-adult book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily von Ziegesar is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl books.-Early life and education:...

, and was developed for television by The O.C.

The O.C.

The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...

creators Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz

-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...

 and Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer. Savage is best known for developing The CW's teen drama series, Gossip Girl from the novel series, and being an executive producer of the Fox series The O.C....

. The series follows the lives of the young, wealthy, and social elite residing in the Upper East Side

Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side lies within an area bounded by 59th Street to 96th Street, and the East River to Fifth Avenue-Central Park...

 of Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, and is narrated by an unseen and seemingly omniscient character, "Gossip Girl", whose blog is widely read among the characters.

After the first three episodes were aired, the series received a full season order of 22 episodes from The CW. Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike

2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike

The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, more commonly referred to as simply the Writers' Strike, was a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West ....

, only thirteen episodes were produced. Once the strike ended, The CW announced five more episodes to be produced and aired in April and May 2008, bringing the first season to 18 episodes. The series' second season received a 25 episode order, with episode 24

Valley Girls (Gossip Girl)

"Valley Girls" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of the The CW Television Network television series Gossip Girl. The episode served as a backdoor pilot for a potential Gossip Girl spin-off series set in the 1980s, entitled Valley Girls...

 of that season serving as a backdoor pilot to a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 that would have focused on the character Lily van der Woodsen and her life in Los Angeles during the 1980s, though the series was never picked up by The CW. The series' third and fourth seasons received full 22 episode orders. On April 26th 2011, The CW renewed Gossip Girl for a fifth season beginning fall 2011 and will consist of 24 episodes.

As of November 28, 2011, a total of 96 episodes of Gossip Girl have aired.

Series overview

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|18
|September 19, 2007
|May 19, 2008
|2.6
|August 19, 2008
|August 18, 2008
|October 22, 2008
|November 13, 2008
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|25
|September 1, 2008
|May 18, 2009
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|August 18, 2009
|September 28, 2009
|October 2, 2009
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|22
|September 14, 2009
|May 17, 2010
|2.0
|August 24, 2010
|August 23, 2010
|October 2, 2010
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|22
|September 13, 2010
|May 16, 2011
|1.6
|August 23, 2011
|August 15, 2011
|September 9,2011
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|24
|September 26, 2011
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Season		Episodes	Season premiere	Season finale	Average viewers (m)	DVD release date
						Region 1	Region 2	Region 3	Region 4

Note: In Region 2, Season 2 was released in two parts, with Part 1 being released on April 13, 2009, Part 2 being released on August 10, 2009, and the complete season being released on September 28, 2009.

Specials

One special episode

Television special

A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular...

, not part of the official continuity

Continuity (fiction)

In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time...

, was produced to complement the first season

Gossip Girl (season 1)

The first season of Gossip Girl, an American teen drama based upon the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar. Developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. Airing on The CW from September 19, 2007 till May 19, 2008 with 18 episodes...

 and was broadcast on CW on January 28, 2008. The Special revealed the secrets of the show.

Special #		Title		Directed by		American viewers in millions		Original air date		Production code

External links

• List of Gossip Girl episodes at TV.com
  TV.com
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