They’re not really calling it a reboot or spinoff but an “extension” of the Gossip Girl brand has been given a straight-to-series order at WarnerMedia’s streaming service HBO Max.
The service is committed to 10-episodes and is bringing on Joshua Safran, who served as showrunner on the original series. Also on board are creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. Safran will write and executive produce the new version and had this to say about the new project:
“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. Then the stars aligned and we had availibility to jumo, and Warners, obviously, it’s something they’re very passionate about. It seemed like the best time and best way to do it.”
Safran wouldn’t reveal anything about plot details or if any characters from the original show would be returning in some capacity. The original series made stars of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, and Ed Westwick.
Here is the official logline for the series:
“Eight years after the original webiste 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.”
HBO Max is set to launch in spring 2020 with a beta launch possible late this year. It will feature more than 10,000 hours of content at the beginning of the launch and that includes Warner Bros. TV-produced Friends, Game of Thrones, Pretty Little Liars, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and library content from Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, TNT, TBS, TruTV, TCM, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. It will also house new CW shows such as Batwoman and Riverdale spinoff, Katy Keene.
Gossip Girl originally ran on The CW from 2007-12 and was one of the first true breakout shows for the then-fledgling network.
