According to reports, the much-talked about Gossip Girl spinoff we were getting ready to see previews of in Monday's episode is no longer happening.
The upcoming "Valley Girls" contains flashback scenes which were supposed to provide a tempting taste for next fall's spinoff following the wild teen years of Lily van der Woodsen (played by Brittany Snow) in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
But even though the CW executives reportedly loved its yesteryear vibe, the new show from GG executive producer Josh Schwartz went from hot, to lukewarm, to "fading but wouldn't count out," to now dead, according to insiders.
With three time slots to fill and six pilots under consideration, the Gossip Girl spinoff apparently didn't make the final cut, for one reason or another.
UPDATE: E! Online is reporting that while the spinoff is indeed battling the new Melrose Place (which looks like a virtual lock) along with The Beautiful Life and Vampire Diaries, reports that it's out of the running completely are premature.
Nevertheless, not good news for those hoping for the spinoff. Can Monday's episode resurrect its hopes? Are you disappointed? Apathetic? Tell us below.
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May 8th, 2009 10:55 AM
CW is cutting down a lot on their programming this fall. I'm just glad GG got through. Some really good shows got cut, like Reaper. Buh.
May 8th, 2009 10:59 AM
As much as I love Brittany Snow, Andrew McCarthy and Cynthia Watros as actors, the spin-off was destined for cancellation. GG viewers (or me anyways) don't care about Lilly, what happens to her, or what happened to her in the past. And producers were opening themselves up to a lot of continuity issues by doing the spin off - like how was Lilly supposed to have come out at the same debutante cotillion as Blair and Serena, which her mother was in charge of for years, if Lilly is living in LA?
May 8th, 2009 11:04 AM
thank god
i have a major crush on andrew mccarthy (still) but this got me all excited and then when i saw the sneak peeks it just looked shite. i also wasnt happy about it taking up more than half of next weeks episode
May 8th, 2009 11:09 AM
I KNEW IT!
no one cares about Lily anyway
the show would've never survived
May 8th, 2009 11:16 AM
I'm terrible disappointed. And I don't get how GG fans can not care about the spin-off.
May 8th, 2009 11:16 AM
Possibly Schwartz and Savage could possibly focus on their main show now? Rather than faxing in some plot-driven connect the dots that we've been getting for a large part of the season.
May 8th, 2009 11:18 AM
I was never to excited about the spin-of, but I have to admit that I'm kind of disseapointed now. Who knows, maybe it would have been great.
Then all the flashbacks are waisted, I dont care about Lily beeing arrested and all that. I want to watch the prom.
May 8th, 2009 11:20 AM
the show looked lame!! i am not surprised at it's cancellation...and brittany snow was a terrible lily.
May 8th, 2009 11:33 AM
kinda sucks
May 8th, 2009 11:40 AM
I´m shocked!!! O.O It seemed everything was doing ok....