Gossip Girl News & Article Thread #1

[Still Dirrty]

Please post all Gossip Girl related articles or news in this thread. Make sure that they don't contain spoilers!

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Guess that pesky financial i$$ue worked itself out after all: I can now reveal that not only was Michelle Trachtenberg the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna to whom I alluded in today's AA, but a deal has been sealed for her to join Gossip Girl.

And even though probably every other starlet in Hollywood under the age of 30 had to be salivating over the prospect of playing Georgina Sparks, a troublemaker from Serena's past who makes Blair look about as dangerous as Donna Martin, I think the CW's casting department nailed it. (C'mon, Buffy's sis was always one prickly pear!) For that matter, Trachtenberg lucked out, too: Could there be a more entertaining way for a young actress to make her comeback than by playing an adolescent Cruella? Didn't think so.

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-en...asts/800035799

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Donna Martin is exactly what I thought of Serena long before Georgina came into the picture.

[Still Dirrty]

Gossip Girl too hot for Friday timeslot
Television show Gossip Girl, dubbed by critics as 'Sex in the City for teens', has proved to be too hot for New Zealand screens.

From next week the American television show - which follows the lives of students at an elite Manhattan private school - will move from its 8.30pm Friday night time slot to 10.30pm.

TVNZ spokesperson Justine Caldwell said the decision had nothing to do with ratings.

Caldwell said Gossip Girl's content was a little too racy for the 8.30pm time slot.

"As the series progressed we felt the content made Gossip Girl more appropriate for a later time slot," she said.

Gossip Girl will screen at 8.30pm this Friday before moving to the 10.30pm slot on September 26.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4693549a1860.html

Gossip Girl actor happy to be a storyteller
Patrick Heusinger, the new hunk on the CW's Gossip Girl, is fine with being a dollop of color on the series' racy palette.

"I think he should be a brush stroke in the bigger picture of what Gossip Girl is," Heusinger says. "I make a lot of interesting things happen, and I think I should let them go on."

Maybe that sounds odd coming from an unknown. But then again, humility seems natural to the handsome 27-year-old.

"I literally booked this job on a fluke," he says. "I definitely had not done any TV before. Casting directors would say, 'You're good but ... ', and slowly, the auditions turned to to a role on Gossip Girl."

Although he only appears on the first four episodes of GG's sophomore season — the third episode aired Monday. — Heusinger is living his dream. Besides the TV gig, he just wrapped up two years in the touring production of Monty Python's Spamalot.

"I wake up every day and I'm happy. I'm storytelling for a living," he says by phone from Manhattan's Upper West Side.

As Gossip hounds know by now, Heusinger portrays James, Blair's new paramour and Chuck's rival.

"In many ways, I think I'm everything Chuck is not," Heusinger says of his character. "I'm very forthcoming. I'm honest. There's a lot of manipulation with Chuck. My character doesn't really play games."

The native of Jacksonville, Fla., equates his TV experience to the one he had on Spamalot, "where it's a nice group of people to be around."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/6003394.html

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Oh Please

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More episodes ordered for One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and 90210!

My dream of a 52-episode Gossip Girl season is moving closer to reality.

Two weeks after extending GG's season by two episodes (from 22 to 24), The CW has informed exec producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage that it wants to tack on one more for a grand total of 25 episodes (and counting).

And this time, The CW is spreading the love around.

Sources also confirm to me exclusively that the net has ordered two additional episodes of One Tree Hill and 90210, extending both shows' seasons to 24 episodes apiece.

Tree Hill has been a surprise success story for The CW. Despite my best efforts to destroy it, the six-year-old soap has been on a ratings roll, posting double-digit gains over last season and consistently building on its Gossip lead in. Not too shabby.

And 90210, while off its initial highs, has become a solid (if not spectacular) performer among its target audience of men and women age 18-49 who work at Entertainment Weekly young females.

Source: http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/