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Sweet Valley. The project is led by producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who are also behind The O.C., Gossip Girl, and . Schwartz and Savage aren’t the only faces from the Gossip Girl reboot joining Sweet Valley. The adaptation will be written by Ashley Wigfield, who also serves as a writer-producer on HBO Max’s reboot.

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who turned the Gossip Girl YA books into a hit series for the CW (and now HBO Max), are bringing another popular YA book series to the screen at the broadcast network. The CW is developing Sweet Valley, a TV series based on the Sweet Valley High books by Francine Pascal.

EXCLUSIVE: Wyatt Oleff (I Am Not OK With This, It) has been cast as the male lead in City on Fire, an Apple TV+ drama series inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel of the same name, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. Jesse Peretz, a director on Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series The Shrink Next Door, will direct and executive produce the first two episodes of City On Fire’s eight-episode first season.

HBO Max renewed Gossip Girl for season 2 ahead of the release of the second part of its debut season set to premiere in Nov.

The CW has given a straight-to-series order to Tom Swift, based on the classic book series Tom Swift, with a twist, for the 2021-22 season. Tom Swift comes from Nancy Drew co-creators/executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, their Fake Empire banner and CBS Studios.

HBO Max said Thursday that its Gossip Girl reboot will return in November for Part 2 of its first season with the final six episodes. A specific date was not announced.

here.HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak and Savannah Lee Smith, with Todd Almond, Adam Chanler-Berat, Johnathan Fernandez and Jason Gotay.Executive produced by “Gossip Girl” creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the HBO Max series is based on the bestselling novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and the original show.

anticipated update dropped its first episode Thursday, wasting no time answering the biggest question that once lorded over the original series: is Gossip Girl? Instead of keeping alive the mystery behind Manhattan's all-knowing pot-stirrer, the new series revealed that the new class of wealthy elites at Constance Billard are being tormented through a reborn Instagram account by their very own teachers, led by the uncool Kate Keller (played by Tavi Gevinson). The reason behind the teachers'

Kristen Bell is set to return as the narrator in HBO Max’s upcoming Gossip Girl reboot, something that the creators say was necessary for the show.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a series adaptation of the Garth Risk Hallberg “City on Fire” from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.The eight-episode series falls under the first-look deal Fake Empire, Schwartz and Savage’s production banner, set up at Apple in 2019. It is the first series order to come from the deal.In “City on Fire,” an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the 4th of July, 2003.

Apple has given a series order to City On Fire, a drama inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel of the same name, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl). This marks the first series order to hail from Schwartz and Savage’s first look deal with Apple under their Fake Empire Productions banner. Produced by Apple Studios, the eight-episode first season will premiere globally on Apple TV+.

Kate Aurthur editorBy the time Joshua Safran was pitching the “Gossip Girl” revival to HBO Max in May 2019, he knew exactly what he wanted the new incarnation to be. Based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s young adult books, and created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the original show ran on The CW from 2007 to 2012 and was a zeitgeist success, creating stars of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley, and cementing “xoxo” as a shady signoff forevermore.

The first teaser for Gossip Girl’s reboot is out now and there’s a lot of hype about the sequel series on social media. HBO Max released a glimpse of the show which is described as an “extension of the pop culture classic.” The developers of the original series, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, have returned to make the new show even more special.

EXCLUSIVE: Lyne Renée (Motherland: Fort Salem) is set for a recurring role in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The 10-episode series comes from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and CBS Television Studios.

Wonder Woman 1984 star Chris Pine lost out on a major part in The OC because of his acne, a showrunner has claimed.Creator Josh Schwartz said on a new podcast about The OC that Pine auditioned for the show’s lead character Ryan Atwood.“He was really really really good but – this is painful,” Schwartz told Welcome To The OC Bitches!.

HBO‘s long-awaited Gossip Girl spin-off series has been given a premiere date and will arrive this summer.Warner Media announced back in July, 2019 that a Gossip Girl update would be coming to its streaming site HBO Max.

The creator of The O.C. is sharing some new details about the hit teen drama!

Adam Brody recently made an appearance on Anna Faris‘ Unqualified podcast and opened up about meeting now-wife Leighton Meester, their relationship and much more in a rare interview.  Stating that he met Leighton about 15 years ago, Brody recalled running into the entire Gossip Girl star cast at Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles. “Josh Schwartz produced both shows and literally the first time we met, that whole cast was eating at Canter’s and I lived at Canter’s for like my entire 20s.

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, dude!!

, and revealed he first met Meester through Josh Schwartz, the man who created both The O.C. and .

During a rare interview about his personal life, Adam Brody made it clear Leighton Meester is nothing like Blair Waldorf … even though he assumed she would be.

“Flashdance,” “Grease” and “The Godfather.”The projects were announced by Paramount Television Studios president Nicole Clemens at ViacomCBS’s streaming presentation to investors on Wednesday.

Paramount+ is making no bones about rebooting its library of feature films for television.

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Luke Cook has booked a recurring role on the fourth season of the CW’s Dynasty. Cook will play Oliver, Kirby’s (Maddison Brown) ex-beau from Australia, a photographer who has come to town for a shoot, but has ulterior motives.

upcoming HBO Max reboot … but will fans ever see S, B and friends onscreen again? Time will tell.“We’ve reached out to all of them to let them know it was happening, and we would love for them to be involved if they want to be involved,” executive producer Josh Schwartz told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in July 2019. “But [we] certainly didn’t want to make it contingent upon their [participation].

EXCLUSIVE: Aadila Dosani (Unspeakable) has been tapped for a recurring role on the upcoming second season of the CW’s Nancy Drew, from CBS Studios and Fake Empire.

Before teenagers fell in love with Gossip Girl, there was The O.C. from 2003-2007. Unlike other dramas, which can tend to go for seasons and seasons, this Josh Schwartz series nicely culminated in a tightly-packed four seasons.

Can you believe it has been 13 years since Gossip Girl premiered on television?!

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Canadian singer/actress Jordan Alexander has been cast as one of the leads in  HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersStart of production on the 10-episode series — from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and CBS Television Studios — was delayed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

James McClain Last year, prolific cult television show co-creator/writer/showrunner Josh Schwartz (“The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl,” “Chuck”) sold his longtime Los Feliz mansion to Ava DuVernay for nearly $10 million. But he isn’t downsizing — public records reveal the “Nancy Drew” helmer has just acquired an even larger compound in a leafy, affluent part of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.The 2.3-acre, $8.1 million estate ranks as one of the largest properties in Sherman Oaks, per the listing.