Gossip Girl
| Gossip Girl | |
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| Genre | Teen drama |
| Based on |
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar |
| Developed by |
Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage |
| Starring |
Blake Lively Leighton Meester Penn Badgley Chace Crawford Taylor Momsen Ed Westwick Kelly Rutherford Matthew Settle Jessica Szohr Kaylee DeFer |
| Narrated by | Kristen Bell (as Gossip Girl) |
| Opening theme | "Steps of The Met" by The Transcenders |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 121 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage Bob Levy Leslie Morgenstein John Stephens Joshua Safran (Seasons 1-5) Sara Goodman (Season 6) |
| Location(s) |
New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn) Long Island East End |
| Running time | 39–44 minutes |
| Production company(s) | College Hill Pictures, Inc. (2007-10) Fake Empire Productions (2010-12) Alloy Entertainment CBS Paramount Television (2007-09) CBS Television Studios (2009-12) Warner Bros. Television |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | The CW |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 19, 2007 – December 17, 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Valley Girls (2009) Gossip Girl: Acapulco (2013) Gossip Girl: Thailand (2015) |
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, 2007, to December 17, 2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl", voiced by Kristen Bell, the series revolves around the fictional lives of upper-class adolescents living in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage it girl Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) from a "mysterious absence". Gossip Girl reveals that Serena has been away at boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut, but not everyone welcomes Serena back to Manhattan with open arms. Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), whom creators describe as being "the queen at the center of their chess game," is the queen bee of Constance Saint Jude prep school's social scene. She also happens to be the childhood "best friend" and occasional rival of Serena van der Woodsen. The story also follows scholarship student Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), who is a self-described "outsider" from Brooklyn, Blair's first love and the so-called "golden boy", Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), and the "bad boy" heir apparent Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), who is part of "Manhattan's elite" and "the king of their chess game." Other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene: Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr), Dan's childhood best friend. Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen), Dan's adolescent sister who the 'Queen B' dubs as 'Little J'. Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford), Serena's mother and heiress, and Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle), former 90's band 'Lincoln Hawk' frontman and independent art gallery owner in Manhattan. He is Dan and Jenny's father and primary guardian. Dorota (Zuzanna Szadkowski) is Blair's primary housekeeper since her youth. Bart Bass (Chuck's father) is a rude and wealthy business man on the upper east side.
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