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Jennifer Hudson, who guest starred on NBC’s Smash, is now joining the producing team of its upcoming stage musical adaptation.

While Dan and Serena made it down the aisle on Gossip Girl, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively called it quits long before the 2012 series finale.

Gossip Girl‘s return will not go beyond its current second season. HBO Max has opted not to order a third season of the reboot, with the upcoming Season 2 finale on Jan. 26 serving as a series finale.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 2 of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the first two episodes of Gossip Girl Season 2.

Hey, Upper East Siders! Gossip Girl is coming back for a second season — and there may be another cameo from one of the original cast members.

The musical drama series Soundtrack, which premiered on Netflix in December 2019, is being removed from the streaming service at the end of the month.

Gossip Girl, it has been revealed.In the new premiere episode of the new Gossip Girl focused podcast, XOXO With Jessica Szohr, it says early feedback from test audiences watching the show did not like the voiceovers. Bell gave voice to the teen drama’s titular anonymous blogger in the series’ original run from 2007 to 2012.The test audience reaction led creators Josh Schwarz and Stephanie Savage to consider cutting her voice-over – which eventually became a signature of the show.The creators told Szohr, the host of the show and the actor who played Vanessa Abrams on the show, that test audiences interest would “drop” when Bell’s narration began.“People were into [the show] and like, ‘Who’s this voice that’s coming in and distracting me?'” Schwartz remembered.“Do you lose the voice-over? We can’t. That’s part of the show, and we just have to ride with it.”You can listen to the podcast episode below:Savage went on to reveal that Bell was the only character who read for the role but that her other role in Veronica Mars caused some concern for the network hosts.“We had some reluctance of, ‘Did we feel comfortable having two shows on the same network with the same voice-over?'” Savage explained.“When [Bell] recorded it, she created an entirely different character with just her voice than how she read Veronica Mars.”Bell returned to HBO Max’s remake of the show as the narrator.

Lots of stars stepped out for the Dior Homme fashion show on Friday (January 21) in Paris, France.

Lots of stars stepped out for the Dior Homme fashion show on Friday (January 21) in Paris, France.

The stars of the HBO Max series Gossip Girl stepped out in style for the premiere of season one’s part two.

HBO Max has set the return date for the second half of season one of Gossip Girl. The first of the final six episodes of the reboot will premiere on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25. Part one debuted in July with six episodes, all currently available to stream on HBO Max.

Kathryn Gallagher is joining the Gossip Girl universe!

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.

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.

new incarnation on HBO Max. Premiering July 8 and set in the same scandal-filled world of exclusive Manhattan prep schools, the series features an all-new cast of characters.

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'

Paging Dorota! HBO Max’s new Gossip Girl series is a continuation of the original CW show, but with a whole new crop of characters. There might, however, be a few familiar faces along the way.

We all know by now that Penn Badgley‘s character Dan Humphrey was revealed to be the person behind Gossip Girl in the original Gossip Girl series, but we just learned a different character was originally going to be the anonymous blogger.

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.

BBC will premiere the reboot of Gossip Girl for UK viewers.The popular teen drama, which ran for six seasons from 2007–2012, returns this month in the US on HBO Max, with events taking place nine years after from the original show.

As the new Gossip Girl’s release inches closer, fans are excited beyond measure but many were upset that the creators didn’t feature any cameos of the iconic original cast of the show. Now, in a chat with The Daily Beast, GG creator Joshua Safran addresses why key characters like Serena or Nate or Blair are missing from the highly-anticipated new show.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC has pounced on the keenly anticipated reboot of iconic drama “Gossip Girl” as a U.K. premiere.The show will be available on BBC One and streamer BBC iPlayer later this year.

The creator of the new Gossip Girl extension series is explaining why none of the lead stars of the original series will be appearing in the new version.

The guys of the Gossip Girl revival are stealing the spotlight on the red carpet!

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.

OMFG, you guys! There’s a linear way to watch the first episode of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The CW said today that it will air the premiere at 8 p.m. Friday, July 9 — one day after its debut on the WarnerMedia streamer.

(CNN)Welcome new generation of rich kids for us to obsess about.HBO Max (which shares CNN's parent company) has released a trailer for the "Gossip Girl" reboot.The teen drama ran on The CW from 2007 to 2012 and helped make big stars of some of the cast, including Blake Lively and Penn Badgley.The new version is developed by showrunner Joshua Safran, a writer and executive producer on the original series.

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.

It’s the first look at the Gossip Girl reboot!