'Gossip Girl' Spinoff Planned

Zap2It.com | June 11, 2008
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Little Jenny may move out of the shadow of the Queen Bee

Good morning, Upper East Siders. If that venti mocha non-fat latte didn't wake you up, maybe the news of a little "Gossip Girl" competition will.

The producers of The CW's hit teen drama are contemplating a spinoff series that revolves around a girls boarding school, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Loosely based on "The It Girl" books by Cicely von Ziegesar, who also wrote the original "Gossip Girl" teen book series, the spinoff would follow the social misadventures of a popularity-hungry teen who enters the Waverly Academy boarding school. There, the social outsider reinvents herself as a popular girl, but finds that she needs to watch her back around her so-called friends.

In the books, the teenager is Jenny Humphrey, who's mortified after appearing in a teen magazine in only her underwear and endures other embarrassing situations. When she makes one mistake too many, she's forced to leave the Constance Billard School for Girls and head to Waverly.

On the CW show, Jenny is played by Taylor Momsen. The producers could stay true to the books and move Momsen over to her own show, or they could introduce a new character this season who will get spun off later.

The CW has not commented on the possible spinoff or if they are interested in picking it up. If they refuse, the show could be shopped to a competing network.

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