Everything about the new Gossip Girl (2021) reboot, including how to watch it, what is expected to happen and how to catch up on the original series.
Why you can trust Pocket-lint (Pocket-lint) – Hey there Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here. If you’d thought I was leaving you to get on with your lives, you were wrong. It might be nine years since I stopped unravelling the scandalous lives of Serena Van der Woodson, Blair Waldorf and their friends, but I’m back, and this time I have the powers of social media to help me out. Yes, that’s right. A Gossip Girl reboot is here, continuing on from the original show, but a decade on, with a new set of elite, privileged New York teens to play with. Here is everything you need to know about the 2021 Gossip Girl revival, including how to watch it, what is expected from the show and how to catch up on the original series. You know you missed me, XOXO. Gossip Girl reboot release date: When is it out? Following an initial delay because of the global pandemic, production for the Gossip Girl remake started at the end of 2020. The Gossip Girl reboot was released on 8 July 2021 in the US. It was then released in the UK on 25 August 2021. How and where to watch Gossip Girl reboot? The Gossip Girl reboot is available exclusively on the HBO Max streaming platform in the US. You can also watch it on The CW – the platform that aired the original Gossip Girl initially – as well as The CW’s online platforms. In the UK, Sky has a programming deal with the platform for HBO Originals, but the BBC snapped up the Gossip Girl reboot. It aired on BBC on 25 August 2021, and all episodes before the mid-season break are available on BBC iPlayer. squirrel_widget_4718242 How many episodes are there of the Gossip Girl reboot? The Gossip Girl reboot launched on the HBO Max platform with 10 episodes, each of which are an hour long. There is a mid-season break so only the first six are currently available to watch in the UK. The original show went on for six seasons and there were a total of 121 episodes. At the moment, it is not known what the future will be beyond the original 10 episodes of the reboot, but we suspect the idea is that it will continue for longer than one season. What is expected to happen in Gossip Girl reboot? The original Gossip Girl cast don’t reappear – except for in mentions and photos – but the Gossip Girl revival is a continuation of the original with Kristen Bell narrating Gossip Girl again, as she did in the original.
