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Gossip Girl spin-off will be Valley GirlCW's teen drama will branch out with prequel set in 1980s Los Angeles and focus on the early years of Lily van der Woodsen.
"When I was your age..."
Spin-offs of television shows usually take a character or characters from the existing cast and throw them in a different location to let them do their thing (e.g. Frasier, Private Practive). The producers of Gossip Girl are trying something different--they're going in the way-back machine.
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the minds behind Gossip Girl, have opted to tell the tale of Lily van der Woodsen's younger years through a potential spin-off, says The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes after rumors of a Gossip Girl spin-off boiled over last month.
However, those rumors said the show would be set in New York City; Schwartz and Savage have decided to set the show in 1980s Los Angeles, when day-glo clothes were in style, chewing gum was essential, and young lasses oft requested to be gagged with spoons. That's right, Gossip Girl is going Valley Girl.
"We didn't want to upset the chemistry of our cast--all of whom are crucial to the show," Savage said of the creative decision. "Nor did we want to dilute New York City as a character."
In the show, Lily Rhodes (her maiden name) has a falling out with her parents and heads West to live with her sister in the San Fernando Valley. Soon, she gets caught up with the Sunset Strip crowd, has a wild time, and eventually meets rocker Rufus Humphrey (a character from Gossip Girl).
"We also can introduce characters in the past and see them again in the present or vice versa," Schwartz added. "Each show can inform and enrich the other, deepen the universe."
The show will be introduced as a flashback episode of Gossip Girl, and--if everyone likes what they see--will presumably become its own series next fall.
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