Good Morning Upper East Siders, ‘Gossip Girl’ Might Be Copping A Reboot

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It’s seven years since Gossip Girl aired its final episode, revealing Dan Humphrey as the all-seeing, all-knowing blogger of the title, and if you’ve been hanging out for more, you may be getting your wish, with reports this weekend that the show might be copping a reboot.

Speaking at a TV Critics Association event, CW president Mark Pedowitz said that there’s currently “a discussion happening” about a reboot of the beloved teen show, although he hastened to add that “I don’t know if we’re there yet.”

Original producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage would need to be on board for a reboot to happen, and Schwartz has previously said that the concept of the show would he hard to pull off in the current social media-saturated landscape.

“The world has become Gossip Girl now,” he told E! in a 2016 interview. “Now literally everyone is Gossip Girl.”

The stars of the original series have also moved on, with Penn Badgley starring on the hit Netflix series YouBlake Lively making the move into films and Kristen Bell, the iconic narrator, now busy with The Good Place

It seems likely, then, that a new Gossip Girl would feature an all-new group of wealthy, privileged teens torturing each-other on the Upper East Side, and even though reboots have officially been done to death at this point, we’d still definitely give it a watch, because we’re suckers for this sort of thing.

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