Comments on: Throwing Up Gossip Girl

By: Jenny G.

Jenny G. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:53:35 +0000

I remember a “little show” called Dawson’s Creek, and when it first came out had all this buzz, cuz the best friends would literally sleep together, and they talked about masturbation….10 years later I’m 22 and now middle school girls get to watch high schoolers literally FUCK! Oh but this show is buzzing b/c of the fashion, that’s commercialism for you! Teen dramas were entertainment, and dialogue starters w/o selling you on being a superficial, egotistical, best-dessed BITCH!!!

By: Jenny G.

Jenny G. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:53:35 +0000

I remember a “little show” called Dawson's Creek, and when it first came out had all this buzz, cuz the best friends would literally sleep together, and they talked about masturbation….10 years later I'm 22 and now middle school girls get to watch high schoolers literally FUCK! Oh but this show is buzzing b/c of the fashion, that's commercialism for you! Teen dramas were entertainment, and dialogue starters w/o selling you on being a superficial, egotistical, best-dessed BITCH!!!

By: josh

josh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:09:49 +0000

I live in the UK and just thought you might like to know that it gets around 300,000 viwers on digital only channel ITV2… thats below the slot average.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:09:49 +0000

I live in the UK and just thought you might like to know that it gets around 300,000 viwers on digital only channel ITV2… thats below the slot average.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:20:37 +0000

BSG Fan: I’ll go 100% that the CW will NOT cancel Gossip Girl this season. They’ve already renewed it and nothing happened last Monday to make things any worse,

despite getting CRUSHED by The Hills in the Nielsen ratings GG improved over its own season averages in key demos. I don’t know that everyone won’t wind up forgetting what the CW is anyway, but it seems VERY committed to GG. I don’t expect anything that happens the remainder of this season will change that.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:20:37 +0000

BSG Fan: I'll go 100% that the CW will NOT cancel Gossip Girl this season. They've already renewed it and nothing happened last Monday to make things any worse,

despite getting CRUSHED by The Hills in the Nielsen ratings GG improved over its own season averages in key demos. I don't know that everyone won't wind up forgetting what the CW is anyway, but it seems VERY committed to GG. I don't expect anything that happens the remainder of this season will change that.

By: BSG fan

BSG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:57:35 +0000

I agree with C and SG fan I loved Veronica Mars AND Gossip Girl!

All these people hating Gossip Girl HAVE NOT seen even a few episodes GUARANTEED. If they had they would notice how witty and well written this show actually is. Don’t let the name turn you off. It’s by far my favourite teen drama I have ever seen in my life.

Out of all the shows I watch (Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, LOST, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Terminator, The Office), Gossip Girl has quickly become the show I look most forward too (I’ve never been this obsessed with a show ever!) If CW cancels this show, I’m done with CW.

I don’t think CW will cancel the show this season. It has bypassed anyshow in the last 5 years in term of buzz and it does really good in the young female demo (Number 9 out of ALL TV SHOWS!) even though its overall ratings aren’t great. This is the best written show on the CW right now and has an amazing cast…CW would just be plain stupid to cancel this show.

Without GOssip Girl, I guarantee everyone would forget what the CW even is…

By: BSG fan

BSG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:57:35 +0000

I agree with C and SG fan I loved Veronica Mars AND Gossip Girl!

All these people hating Gossip Girl HAVE NOT seen even a few episodes GUARANTEED. If they had they would notice how witty and well written this show actually is. Don't let the name turn you off. It's by far my favourite teen drama I have ever seen in my life.

Out of all the shows I watch (Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, LOST, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Terminator, The Office), Gossip Girl has quickly become the show I look most forward too (I've never been this obsessed with a show ever!) If CW cancels this show, I'm done with CW.

I don't think CW will cancel the show this season. It has bypassed anyshow in the last 5 years in term of buzz and it does really good in the young female demo (Number 9 out of ALL TV SHOWS!) even though its overall ratings aren't great. This is the best written show on the CW right now and has an amazing cast...CW would just be plain stupid to cancel this show.

Without GOssip Girl, I guarantee everyone would forget what the CW even is...

By: SG GG fan

SG GG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:33:48 +0000

Totally agree with C. But why stop at the first 5 or 6? I thought episode 14 was the best one so far.

I’m a huge fan of Veronica Mars and I was (and still am) pretty upset that The CW canceled it. I nearly joined the bandwagon of CW haters till they came up with Gossip Girl! Don’t you think the character of Gossip Girl is like a homage to Veronica Mars? Now if The CW dares cancel GG prematurely, I’m booking my first class seats to their haters club!

Both shows are different & unique, no one is superior than the other.

By: SG GG fan

SG GG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:33:48 +0000

Totally agree with C. But why stop at the first 5 or 6? I thought episode 14 was the best one so far.

I'm a huge fan of Veronica Mars and I was (and still am) pretty upset that The CW canceled it. I nearly joined the bandwagon of CW haters till they came up with Gossip Girl! Don't you think the character of Gossip Girl is like a homage to Veronica Mars? Now if The CW dares cancel GG prematurely, I'm booking my first class seats to their haters club!

Both shows are different & unique, no one is superior than the other.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:20:33 +0000

*pukes*

Veronica Mars was a superior show in every way possible. And so were the Gilmore Girls.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:20:33 +0000

*pukes*

Veronica Mars was a superior show in every way possible. And so were the Gilmore Girls.

By: C

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:46:49 +0000

I defy anyone to sit down, watch the first five or six episodes, and tell me that Gossip Girl isn’t one of the best teen dramas they’ve ever seen. It’s beautifully produced and sharply-written. It’s sexy and catty, but it’s got a really good heart. The focal point of the show isn’t sex, money, or cattiness — it’s the friendship between the two female leads, whose love and loyalty to each other ultimately sets the show apart.

And people *are* watching it and talking about it. Among the demo, it *is* a smash hit. I don’t care what your numbers tell you — the numbers are broken.

By: C

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:46:49 +0000

I defy anyone to sit down, watch the first five or six episodes, and tell me that Gossip Girl isn't one of the best teen dramas they've ever seen. It's beautifully produced and sharply-written. It's sexy and catty, but it's got a really good heart. The focal point of the show isn't sex, money, or cattiness — it's the friendship between the two female leads, whose love and loyalty to each other ultimately sets the show apart.

And people *are* watching it and talking about it. Among the demo, it *is* a smash hit. I don't care what your numbers tell you — the numbers are broken.

By: SG GG fan

SG GG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:23:00 +0000

Hi there,

I’m from Singapore and I’m a huge fan of Gossip Girl. In defense of the show, I’d like to share with you some of my findings on social networking websites like Facebook and Friendster.

On Facebook, there are dozens of groups catered to GG and The Hills, and as I’m typing this out, the largest Gossip Girl group has 7181 members while the largest group for The Hills has 1535.

It’s a bit harder for Friendster as search results for ‘The Hills’ tend to include ‘One Tree Hill’, ‘King of the Hill’, etc. But I did try ‘GossipGirl’ and ‘TheHills’ and it turns out that 61 Americans listed GG under their Favorite TV Shows vis-a-vis 33 for The Hills.

In my country alone, 1281 people wrote Gossip Girl as one of their favorite shows, the highest among the 2007-08 slate of shows, and mind you, no TV station in my country has yet to air it.

Yes I admit that these numbers aren’t a hundred percent accurate but you have to agree that it does give you an idea of the size of a show’s fan base and popularity.

By: SG GG fan

SG GG fan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:23:00 +0000

Hi there,

I'm from Singapore and I'm a huge fan of Gossip Girl. In defense of the show, I'd like to share with you some of my findings on social networking websites like Facebook and Friendster.

On Facebook, there are dozens of groups catered to GG and The Hills, and as I'm typing this out, the largest Gossip Girl group has 7181 members while the largest group for The Hills has 1535.

It's a bit harder for Friendster as search results for 'The Hills' tend to include 'One Tree Hill', 'King of the Hill', etc. But I did try 'GossipGirl' and 'TheHills' and it turns out that 61 Americans listed GG under their Favorite TV Shows vis-a-vis 33 for The Hills.

In my country alone, 1281 people wrote Gossip Girl as one of their favorite shows, the highest among the 2007-08 slate of shows, and mind you, no TV station in my country has yet to air it.

Yes I admit that these numbers aren't a hundred percent accurate but you have to agree that it does give you an idea of the size of a show's fan base and popularity.

By: Nuanced

Nuanced — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:41:22 +0000

David, the answer is simple. Josh Schwartz is a very ordinary writer who is a massive manipulator of the press. Big, big bucks have been spent massaging TV critics into hyping GG which I beleive is what Robert Seidman was intimating.

By: Nuanced

Nuanced — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:41:22 +0000

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:24:23 +0000

This is really what grates me most about GG. If it’s press coverage was appropriate for it’s ratings, then it would just be another low rated show with a niche audience that you’d hardly ever hear about, and it would get about as much coverage as something like The Bill Engvall Show.

But you’ve got a few deluded people in the press who have somehow convinced themselves that the show is successful and popular. It’s neither.

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:24:23 +0000

This is really what grates me most about GG. If it's press coverage was appropriate for it's ratings, then it would just be another low rated show with a niche audience that you'd hardly ever hear about, and it would get about as much coverage as something like The Bill Engvall Show.

But you've got a few deluded people in the press who have somehow convinced themselves that the show is successful and popular. It's neither.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:12:19 +0000

haha Sandy. Truth is I’m digesting a lot of Gossip Girl info right now and another at least sort of apology will likely ensue. I just haven’t figured out exactly how to write it yet.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:12:19 +0000

haha Sandy. Truth is I'm digesting a lot of Gossip Girl info right now and another at least sort of apology will likely ensue. I just haven't figured out exactly how to write it yet.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:09:23 +0000

So much for your apology (or “apology”) to Ostroff and Co. the other day. lol

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:09:23 +0000

So much for your apology (or “apology”) to Ostroff and Co. the other day. lol

By: jay turney

jay turney — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:59 +0000

I could write a book about the new do-me feminist media-journakist complex ( with apologies to Camille Paglia) and sort of am. All I will say here is my latest ( gift subscription) New Yorker has a feature article about the Gossip Girl book series. How many of us knew the TV series was based on some childrens’ books which are popular in NYC? The critic pans the TV show, of course, as a blandification or dilution of the books, again, of course, much darker. Maybe this helps explain the media hype for Gossip Girl – like Candace Bushnell, the author has good friends in high places, and the hype is as much about a successful book series, ala Bushnell and JK Rowling, as it is about a TV show on a negligible network.