Hey Upper East-Siders, have I got a story for you!
Deadline has confirmed that HBO Max has renewed Gossip Girl for season 2 ahead of the release of the second part of its debut season set to premiere in Nov. Gossip Girl is a reboot of a CW original series of the same name which is set 9 years after the original website went dark.
The new iteration of Gossip Girl, written by showrunner Joshua Safran, is based on the book by Cecily von Ziegesar and the original show, developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, which ran from 2007-2012.
The reboot was hailed by HBO Max as its most-watched original series over the first weekend of availability. It also saw record viewership over the first four days of availability. The first episode opened to viewers in 555,000 U.S. households, per Samba TV.