Where to watch Gossip Girl (2007–2012)

Trivia & production notes

• The Gossip Girl novels were initially slated to become a film starring Lindsay Lohan with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, but when that project stalled, producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz converted it into a television series.
• Josh Schwartz expressed concern about repeating the formula of his previous show The O.C., noting that the source material's smart, worldly characters offered a different direction.
• Penn Badgley originally auditioned for the role of Chuck Bass but turned it down at first, later accepting the role of Dan Humphrey instead.
• Blake Lively initially declined the role of Serena van der Woodsen because she planned to attend college.
• British actor Ed Westwick was first asked to read for Nate Archibald before being offered the role of Chuck Bass.
• Kristen Bell secured the narration role of Gossip Girl by calling CW executive Dawn Ostroff and requesting it based on her experience doing narration work on Veronica Mars.
• Mischa Barton turned down the recurring role of Georgina Sparks, which was subsequently offered to Michelle Trachtenberg.
• The show's producers initially considered shooting in a Los Angeles studio with a recreated Central Park but chose to film the entire series in New York City itself to capture the city as a character and provide a fresh perspective on the city from teenagers' viewpoints.
• The fictional Constance Billard-St. Jude's School used external shots of the Museum of the City of New York, with the school's design based on author Cecily von Ziegesar's own alma mater, Nightingale-Bamford.
• The fourth season's premiere episodes were filmed in Paris, including locations such as La Sorbonne, the Musée d'Orsay, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

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