Career: Television > Gossip Girl

Character: Georgina Sparks Creator: Stephanie Savage Creator: Josh Schwartz Realese Date: 2007 Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Welcome to New York’s Upper East side where the wealthy and connected mingle at benefits and try to deal with their always dramatic love lives, not to mention picking colleges. Blair Waldorf is the so-called toast of adolescence in her world; she and her friends, Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates, go to a prep school and fancy parties with their rich parents. Blair is envied by her adversaries because she is thought to have the perfect life, not just because of her gorgeous boyfriend, Nate Archibald, but because she’s also planning on getting into her dream college,Yale. With everyone worried about college(or procrastinating on worrying, which everyone seems to be doing), and senior year dragging along, her seemingly perfect life is interrupted by her ex-best friend, the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, coming back into town after getting kicked out of boarding school. Serena comes back into her life, and into the eyes of Blair’s boy friend. When everything Blair knows starts to fall apart, everyone will realize that her life is far from perfect. Will life in the the Upper East Side redeem itself of what it’s really supposed to be? Or will the false facade reveal that the rich have the same problems as the not so rich (Jenny and Dan Humphrey), if not more. And just maybe Jenny and Dan are all the more happy with their simple, not so expectant lives.

Season 1 Episode Guide
• 1×15 – Desperately Seeking Serena
• 1×16 – All About My Brother
• 1×17 – Woman on the Verge
• 1×18 – Much ‘I Do’ About Nothing

Season 2 Episode Guide
• 2×22 – Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• 2×23 – The Wrath of Con
• 2×25 – The Goodbye Gossip Girl

Season 3 Episode Guide
• 3×02 – The Freshmen

•  Was originally pitched as a feature with Lindsay Lohan as Blair Waldorf. When that fell through, its backers (who had the rights to the stories) approached Josh Schwartz about turning it into a series.

•  Originally, Georgina Sparks was offered to Mischa Barton, who turned down the role. Michelle Trachtenberg was then cast as Georgina Sparks.

•  Every episode title is a word play on the title of a movie.

•  The Gossip Girl TV series is based off of the Best Selling Novels “Gossip Girl” written by ‘Cecily Von Ziegesar’.

•  The name of Rufus’ band, “Lincoln Hawk”, is also the name of Sylvester Stallone’s character in the movie Over the Top (1987). That movie is mentioned several times as being a cult-classic in “The O.C.” (2003), the previous show from Josh Schwartz, the creator of this series.

•  Leighton Meester had to dye her naturally blonde hair brunette merely to audition for the role of Blair Waldorf.

•  The show’s beginning date took place, chronologically, after it was aired. The show aired in Canada on September 18, 2007 and aired in the US on September 19, 2007. The show starts on Wednesday September 23, 2007 and ends on Saturday September 26, 2007, thus all dates in the Pilot fall after their air date.

•  Blair Waldorf lives at 1136 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10128 in the penthouse. Chuck Bass and Serena van der Woodsen live in suites at 455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 – otherwise known as the Palace Hotel.

•  The character of Lily van der Woodsen was originally named Darla, until the writers changed it at the last moment.

•  The series has become so popular that a tour of Gossip Girl sites has been created in New York City, by the same people who created the “Sex and the City” (1998) Tour.

•  Coming soon…