Gossip Girl News (Page 9)

During tonight's "Valley Girls," we're flashing back a quarter-century to the teenage days of Lily Rhodes, and if all goes well for producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, those flashbacks will morph into a new Gossip Girl spinoff series.

In the past week alone, the spinoff has been presumed dead, then reported to be still alive and kicking (albeit tenuously). Can fan reactions to tonight's show make or break its chances of getting picked up by the CW for the upcoming season?

That we'll have to wait and see on. But for now, Stephanie Savage previewed the episode, and the spinoff in general, in an interview with Zap2it's Korbi Ghosh.

Here's what she has to say ...

Q: '80s. Love it. Already on board. But exactly what year will things begin, will we know?

A: We’re going to try and be somewhat vague about that, just so we don’t get trapped in nitpicking, but we’re starting around 1983. Lily is in high school, so we wanted to give it a nice long run before it turns into the 90s when she’d be meeting Rufus.

Q: The Gossip Girl episode during which Lily made a list of all the men she'd slept with... should we have been pausing our DVRs and looking closely at that list? Are any of those guys going to pop up should the show go to series in the fall?

A: Well the names on that list were mostly our crew members’ names, and that’s largely just for legal reasons. A lot of the guys that would have been on Lily’s list, that are on the list in her mind, are guys that are older and have families now and they don’t necessarily want to be associated with Lily’s past. But we'll still be telling those stories, definitely.

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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.

The spawn of Lily and Rufus is here!

Actor Chris Riggi will appear in the Gossip Girl season finale as Scott, the long-lost love child of Lily (Kelly Rutherford) and Rufus (Matthew Settle).

That means on-again, off-again Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) will come face-to-face with their half-brother.

Who is this guy? How did this come to pass? And what does it all mean for our favorite Upper East Siders, young and old? Theories abound, for sure.

The return of Scott is going to be "a major grenade" in the relationship of Lily and Rufus. But what got the turbulent pair to this unexpected place?

Earlier this season, Rufus found out Lily didn't just break up with him when they were teenagers, she ran away to secretly give birth to their son overseas.

That reveal was shortly trumped by the news that their boy Scott, who'd been adopted by a nice suburban family, had recently died in a sailing accident.

Of course, as it turns out, the adoptive parents were lying and it was actually their other kid who had died. The Rufus-Lily-spawn, Scott, is alive and well.

Now he's coming to New York City. What does this mean for the kids, Dan, Jenny, Serena and Eric? Can Rufus and Lily's fragile relationship survive it?

Comment away with your theories below!

Last night's Gossip Girl, "The Wrath of Con," featured a Ponzi scheme, more lies about money than we can even keep track of, and one really poignant moment.

When Gabriel came clean (we think) and admitted that he and Poppy stole the money, but that she in turn ripped him off and had it all, the gang took action.

By enlisting Georgina Sparks, natch.

Of course, this being the Upper East Side, the plan backfired, landing one of our favorite characters in jail and a couple of relationships turned upside down.

Miss it? Confused about some of the details? Want to relive the drama a second time? Follow the link for the Insider's episode recap of "The Wrath of Con."

Be sure to check out our gallery, videos, music guide and list of Gossip Girl quotes (work in progress) as well. Our Round Table discussion is still to come!

What did you think of last night's Gossip Girl? Leave comments below and in the forum and let us know! Thank you for watching with us!

So? What do you think? Did last night's episode, "The Wrath of Con," meet the expectations set forth by all the Gossip Girl spoilers, previews and discussions had over the past week, or did it fall short? Was it somewhere in between for you?

Tell us what you think in the informal poll below!

"The Wrath of Con" was ...

Below are some of New York Magazine's arbitrary, yet humorous and insightful thoughts of last night's Gossip Girl, "The Wrath of Con," with scores assigned.

Comment and add your own ...

Chuck asks for a glass to go with the flask that he brought into his taxi. Plus 3, because cars without stemware are well out of Chuck's realm of experience.

After hatching her plan, how does Lily think it's reasonable to send Rufus his fake dividends the very next day? She knows better than that. Minus 5.

Rufus is too cowardly to ask CeCe for permission to propose, so he asks Eric. Plus 2. Eric totally scoffs at him for it, for his mom is a whore. Plus 5.

How does Georgina's fake character, who supposedly just got into town, manage to meet Poppy Lifton on this same, action-packed day? Minus 5.

Lily says to Serena: "I've been so proud of you lately with Brown and graduation … " Was it not a mere TWO EPISODES ago that Lily was calling Serena was a plane-hopping skank with lacrosstitute tendencies? Minus 3.

We love how Nate Archibald is along for the ride with all the scheming going on, but has no idea what's going on at all at any given point. Plus 2.

We appreciate the emotional stakes created by Nate asking Blair to move in, but Eleanor would never let her. Neither would Cyrus ... or Dorota. Minus 3.

This setup let us down last season, but the great final shot of Nate, Blair, and Chuck on the steps at the end leads us to believe that the gang is going to join forces to tackle evil in a way they could never do alone. Plus 3.

Did last night's episode live up to the expectations set forth by all the Gossip Girl spoilers, clips and debates we've had over the past couple of days, or did it fall short? Or was it somewhere in between? Tell us what you think in the poll below.

"A Southern Gentleman Prefers Blondes" was ...

New York Magazine offers an arbitrary, yet humorous and insightful analysis of each week's Gossip Girl the next morning. Below are some of their thoughts on "A Southern Gentleman Prefers Blondes." Comment and add your own ...

• Serena is naive and entitled enough to believe that running away with your friend's boyfriend is okay as long as you are truly in love, and also to have the temerity to claim friendship with and love for said friend after committing such an act. Women like this totally exist, so Plus 8. But if someone pulled this kind of crap on The Hills, they'd get slapped ten ways 'til Tuesday.

• We will never, ever, ever get over Chuck and Nate playing basketball on Chrystie Street, just south of Houston. There is not one explanation for why they would play there and not in some private club. Minus 3, because honestly. It must have been awkward for them to even film there.

• Vanessa is clearly tormented, and her horror is visceral, real, and needs to be addressed. She stutters to Dan that she needs to tell him something because it would be "good to talk about." Then she realizes, no, it's too horrifying to say aloud without the aid of alcohol. Which she does, taking an extra step by turning it into an "I Never" game, and chugging the beer immediately after each dire revelation, as much to cover her face as to dull the pain. We can relate. Plus 7.

• Lily signs on to Gabriel's investment opportunity after a three-minute presentation, and Serena effuses that "everyone" in the co-op will sign on hence, since an endorsement from Lily van der Woodsen is "golden." Minus 5.

• Plus 10 for Blair and Chuck sleeping in the limo and holding hands. And then simultaneously checking their hair at the moment they wake up.

After all the Gossip Girl spoilers, promos and debates we've had over the past couple of weeks, did last night's episode live up to your expectations? Fall short? Somewhere in between? Tell us what you thought in the poll below.

"Seder Anything" was ...

Below are some of the highlights from New York Magazine's insightful and arbitrary analysis of last night's "Seder Anything." Comment and add your own below ...

• Chuck Bass tells Serena van der Woodsen that he ran into Poppy Lifton at Rose Bar. Plus 1, because that's exactly the kind of place a New York socialite with a perfectly tousled Amelie haircut would hang out.

• Nate got into Columbia "on his own merit." No. Minus 5.

• Eleanor tells Blair: "Waldorf women are not socialites!" Plus 5, because of course she would say this. No one wants to be branded a socialite nowadays.

• Blair tells the grandfather that "I think that's a decision he has to make on his own." Minus 5, because the woman who took down Georgina Sparks would have clearly had better control of this whole situation than that. 

• Tripp's fiancée says to Blair: "When it comes to these things, it takes a while to start to matter." Plus only 5, because while this is an awesome thing to say, if someone said this to the real Blair, she would have ENDED her.

• Why would Jenny choose to entertain her new hipster boyfriend at the van der Woodsens' apartment instead of the Humphreys' Brooklyn loft? Minus 8.

• How awesome was it, outside the limo before he dumped her, when Nate has to add it up out loud what Blair did to him in order to keep track? Plus 3.

• Obviously, Serena would think she was married if someone put a popsicle ring on her finger and had sex with her on a bed with white sheets. But Cyrus would know better. You have to sign all kinds of papers and stuff in the U.S. Minus 10.

• The subtlety of having Rufus carry Lily's Prada bags in an episode when he won't accept her offer to pay for Dan's schooling was not lost on us. Plus 2.

• That coat Dan wore to waiter is far too expensive for him to afford. Minus only 1, because it's pretty, and for a while it covered up the vest that he pretended he was wearing for the first time but really he wears in EVERY episode.

• Plus 8 for the unspecific way Dan Humphrey gets jealous after Serena confesses she got accidentally married to a dude after naked swimming with him in Spain, and the inarticulate way he explains said jealousy.