The episode served as a backdoor pilot for a potential Gossip Girl spin-off series set in the s, entitled Valley Girls. References to elements of s popular culture were heavily accentuated in the episode, which the producers hoped would bridge the generation gap between the characters and audience. Although the episode received generally positive reviews, the spin-off series was not picked up. In the past, Lily runs away from her wealthy parents to live in the San Fernando Valley with her sister Carol Rhodes Krysten Ritter , the black sheep of the family. In the present, Lily's daughter Serena van der Woodsen Blake Lively rebels against her mother while her classmates prepare for the Prom.

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The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City 's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen , whose experiences are among those chronicled by the eponymous gossip blogger. The novel series is based on the author's experiences at Nightingale-Bamford School and on what she heard from friends. The first novel, Gossip Girl , was released in April ; the eleventh novel of the series was released in May , with a prequel novel following in October Another follow-up novel, in which the characters return home from college for the holidays, was released in hardback format in November The original novel became the inspiration for the Gossip Girl teen drama television series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage , which premiered on The CW on September 19, There are now 13 novels.


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Several years ago, a charity shop worker in Hampshire had an epileptic seizure and fell into a shallow lake. Firefighters called to rescue him said they could not enter water higher than ankle deep because of health and safety rules. The man lay face down, drowning, while the firefighters measured the depth of the water with a pole. He died, and everyone was aghast because it was so blindingly obvious that a set of generic regulations had blotted out all basic human instincts of rescue, of kindness, of common sense.



Photo: Getty Images. What made us fall in love with The O. It burned through its creator, too, and Josh Schwartz suffered a highly publicized flameout when he attempted to run two shows at once the second being Athens , about a college English professor, which never made it to air. While Daily Intel will be your home for all things Gossip Girl once the series starts, we caught up with Schwartz and asked him what he learned from his experience on The O.