HBO Max has just announced that it has renewed Gossip Girl for a Season 2, midway through its first season.
According to a press release made by WarnerMedia, the first six episodes of the series (debuted on July 8) became the best launch for a Max Original Drama series this year.
The reboot series saw a record viewership over its first weekend and reportedly has ‘gained around 5.2 billion impressions from content inspired by the series on TikTok.’ However, the streamers haven’t disclosed any viewer figures as per usual.
The series takes place in the same classic Upper East Side setting as the original one. A new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to social surveillance nine years after the original blogger’s website went dark.
It stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak, Savannah Lee Smith, Todd Almond, Adam Chanler-Berat, Johnathan Fernandez, and Jason Gotay.
Gossip Girl explores just how much social media and New York have changed over the years (and since the original show’s debut).
Developed by showrunner Joshua Safran, a writer and executive producer on the original series, it is also based on the bestselling novels by Cecily von Ziegesar. Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage executive produce with Lis Rowinski as co-executive producer.
The series is produced by Fake Empire and Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Studios.
Gossip Girl Season 1 will return with its second half in November with the remaining six episodes. However, a date has not been announced as of yet.
About Gossip Girl (2021 Reboot)
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama streaming television series created for HBO Max and a reboot of the 2007 teen drama series of the same name, starring Leighton Meester and Blake Lively.
The series is developed by the original series’ executive producer Joshua Safran, executive produced by original series’ co-creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, along with Safran, who also serves as showrunner.
Featuring an ensemble cast, the series features the return of Kristen Bell as the narrator, an anonymous and omniscient blogger known as “Gossip Girl”. The series premiered on HBO Max on July 8, 2021. A second season is due for release soon.
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teenagers are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.
Source: WarnerMedia
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