A Gossip Girl Spinoff In The Making ?
By fred | June 11, 2008
Oh boy… apparently the makers of so-called hit-drama The CW’s Gossip Girl, which despite a large buzz on the Internet and huge promo campaign failed to perform greatly in ratings, are playing with the idea of a spinoff series, which would be set at a girls boarding school.
Truth be told, this idea actually comes fro the books Gossip Girl is based on : in the books, little J wants to become popular and struggles to fit in. After a series of public embarrassments (including appearing in a teen magazine wearing next to nothing) she ends up having to either repeat ninth grade, or find a new school. Unsurprisingly, she decides to go somewhere else, and reinvents herself as a popular girl after entering a boarding school. Her story was told in a series of six spinoff novels, called The It Girl.
Willing to cash in on the popularity of Gossip Girl, producers are hoping to create such a sitcom as well in TV land, which would either focus around Jenny Humphrey as in the books, giving Taylor Momsen her own series, or introducing a new character new season - still resembling the Jenny from the books - only to have her out into her own series a few weeks later.
Either way, the real question is : where would this project be picked up, if at all ? Because while WB (who co-own The CW) has a first-look deal for such a project, the network is already filled with such teenage shows : Gossip Girl, the “new” 90210, or Surviving The Filthy Rich.
What do you think, is yet another one really a good idea ??
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