Although it premieres on HBO Max on 8 July, the BBC said it will land in the UK “later this year”. The BBC has also attained the rights to the original drama, which ran for six seasons between 2007 and 2012 on The CW.
Just like the original – which starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen and Ed Westwick – the reboot will focus on the privileged lives of several students in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl,” reads an official synopsis. “The prestige series will address just how much social media—and the landscape of New York itself—has changed in