‘Gossip Girl’: BBC Sets April UK Premiere Date For 2nd & Final Season
The BBC has set an April premiere date for the 2nd and final season of the ‘Gossip Girl‘ reboot series the UK broadcaster has announced.
The ‘Gossip Girl’ reboot is set eight years after the original website went dark, as a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of “Gossip Girl”. Developed by showrunner Joshua Safran, a writer and executive producer on the original series, this extension of the pop culture classic explores just how much social media – and the landscape of New York itself – has changed in the intervening years.
As we head into season two, it’s the second semester of Junior year, and Gossip Girl is leaving no stone unturned in her effort to control the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite. She’s learned a thing or two from her first go-round – namely what her audience wants, they shall get. It’s time for her to turn the heat up on what’s been simmering. Old enemies, new allies, constantly shifting sands – this semester, there can only be one queen, and by the end of the school year, everyone will know where the bodies are buried, and just who was holding the shovel.
The series stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak, Savannah Lee Smith, Johnathan Fernandez, Adam Chanler-Berat, Todd Almond, Laura Benanti, Grace Duah and Megan Ferguson. The original series Kristen Bell returns as the narrator.
Whilst the show did reasonably well on HBO Max in the US, unfortunately, it didn’t quite manage to capture the zeitgeist in the same way as the original show. That led to it falling foul of the streaming service’s mass culling under the new Warner Bros Discovery management.
‘Gossip Girl’ is produced by Fake Empire and Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Studios, and was acquired by BBC Programme Acquisition. The series is written, executive produced and developed by Joshua Safran of Random Acts. Executive producers also include Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage of Fake Empire, and Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment. Lis Rowinski of Fake Empire serves as co-executive producer.
‘Gossip Girl‘ Season 2 premieres Tuesday, 11th April 2023 at 11:05pm with a Double Bill on BBC One in the UK.
