Gossip Girl (2021 TV series)


Gossip Girl is an upcoming American teen drama television series, as well as a sequel and soft reboot, of the 2007 series Gossip Girl. The upcoming series was created by the same people involved with the original: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Joshua Safran, the latter of whom will serve as showrunner. It will be released on HBO Max in 2021.

Premise

Eight years after the conclusion of the original series, a new cast of Manhattan private schoolers take the lead under the watchful eye of Gossip Girl, while demonstrating how much social media – and the landscape of New York City itself – has changed in the intervening years.
Gossip Girl is slated to feature more adult content than the original on The CW, owing to the relaxed standards of the HBO Max streaming service. The series is also slated to be more diverse, with nonwhite leads and LGBT characters.
In regard to continuity, executive producer and showrunner Joshua Safran stated that it is officially in the same continuity of the original Gossip Girl series. However, rather than a direct continuation of the story, it is instead set in the same world where previous characters existed and can be freely referenced and potentially reappear, but stars a different set of characters from a different point of view. Safran likened this to a shared universe, akin to that of the Marvel Universe.

Cast

Development

ordered a revival of the series for HBO Max in July 2019. Although called a "reboot", it was confirmed to be a continuation of the original story by Josh Schwartz.

Casting

In November 2019, it was announced Kristen Bell would be returning as the voice of Gossip Girl in the new series. In March 2020, it was reported that Emily Alyn Lind, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, and Jason Gotey were cast. Later that month, Tavi Gevinson, Thomas Doherty, Adam Chanler-Berat, Zion Moreno were reported to have joined as well. In April, it was reported that Savannah Smith had joined the cast.

Filming

Filming was scheduled to begin in March 2020 in New York City. Production suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and as a result the release date was pushed back to 2021.