Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl
Genre	Teen drama
Developed by	Josh Schwartz
No. of seasons	6
No. of Episodes	121
Production
Running time	39-44 minutes
Production company(s)	Alloy Entertainment College Hill Pictures CBS Television Studios Warner Bros. Telelvison
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	The CW
Original release	September 19, 2007 – December 17, 2012

Gossip Girl is a teen drama television series that aired on The CW from September 19, 2007 to December 17, 2012, running for six seasons.

Cast

Main

• Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen
• Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
• Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey
• Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald
• Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey (seasons 1-4)
• Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass
• Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams (seasons 1-4)
• Kaylee DeFer as Ivy Dickens (seasons 5-6)
• Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen
• Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey

Series overview

Season	No. of episodes	Originally aired		Time slot	Average ratings
		First aired	Last aired		Rating (18-49)	Viewers (millions)
1	18	September 19, 2007	May 19, 2008	Wednesdays 9/8c	1.2	2.58
				Mondays 8/7c
2	25	September 1, 2008	May 18, 2009	Mondays 8/7c	1.4	2.80
3	22	September 14, 2009	May 17, 2010	Mondays 9/8c	1.1	2.04
4	22	September 13, 2010	May 16, 2011		0.9	1.65
5	24	September 26, 2011	May 14, 2012	Mondays 8/7c	0.6	1.18
6	10	October 8, 2012	December 17, 2012	Mondays 9/8c	0.4	0.89

Production

Development

In 2004, it was announced that Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl novel series was being adapted into a film penned by Gilmore Girls developer Amy Sherman-Palladino, which would follow Blair Waldorf as the protagonist, played by Lindsay Lohan. After the movie deal fell through, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage decided that they wanted to bring Gossip Girl to television instead, and Warner Bros. won rights to the series. Schwartz and Savage finalized the pilot script in December 2006. On January 3, 2007, the project was greenlit to series by The CW. Dawn Ostroff, The CW's entertainment chief at the time, commented, "We knew we wanted to go after 18-to-34-year-old women and do scripted content that was going to be bold. Gossip Girl fit so many of the characteristics that we were looking for."

External links

• Gossip Girl on Fandom
• Gossip Girl on Wikipedia
• Gossip Girl on Facebook