The 'Gossip Girl' reboot is now delayed until at least summer 2021
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Darcy Schild
May 24, 2020, 19:45 IST
Blake Lively and Leighton Meester in "Gossip Girl."Warner Bros. Television
The "Gossip Girl" reboot, which was set to be released on HBO Max in May, is now delayed until at least the summer of 2021, Vulture confirmed Friday.
"Gossip Girl" first aired on The CW for six seasons between 2007 and 2012.
The new "Gossip Girl" show will reportedly take place 8 years after the series' famous fictional blog went dark.
The show's original narrator, Kristen Bell, will return for the reboot, but it has yet to be confirmed if other original cast members will appear in the spinoff.
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Fans of "Gossip Girl" will have to wait longer than originally expected to enjoy the spinoff of the book and TV series about an iconic group of Upper East Siders.
The new 'Gossip Girl' show will reportedly take place 8 years after the series' famous fictional blog 'went dark'
"A new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl," reads the reboot's synopsis, published by Deadline.
"The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years," the synopsis continued.
The show's original narrator, Kristen Bell, will appear in the reboot — but it has yet to be confirmed if the other cast members will return
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are set to return to the "Gossip Girl" reboot as executive producers., and Schwartz previously said that the original actors have been notified about the spinoff and that they're welcome to be involved if they're interested.
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At the time of writing, it has yet to be announced if any of the original cast members, such as Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, or Chase Crawford, will star in the show.
That being said, the familiar voice of Kristen Bell will make a comeback. Bell was the series' narrator who was known for her voiceover of the popular tagline "XOXO, Gossip Girl."
The reboot also reportedly will have more diversity in terms of the cast members and storylines.
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