HBO Max, owned by WarnerMedia, said on Tuesday it had ordered a new, 10-episode series that will be set eight years after Gossip Girl ended its original run in 2012, and will follow a new generation of private school kids. There was no word on casting or whether any of the original stars, including Blake Lively, Penn Badgely, Chace Crawford and Leighton Meester, will return. HBO Max said the new series will explore how much social media and the landscape of New York itself has changed in recent years. Gossip Girl ran for six seasons on youth network CW becoming one of the most popular shows on television, winning 18 Teen Choice awards and inspiring fashion, hairstyles and beauty lines. The spinoff follows news last week that HBO Max will have exclusive streaming rights to 1990s TV series Friends – currently the second-most watched show on rival Netflix.

Source: The Express Tribune July 18, 2019 03:56 UTC