Good news for Gossip Girl fans, as BBC have acquired the rights to the HBO Max reboot for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The reboot of the 2007 drama series is due to air on HBO Max on July 8, but Irish and UK viewers will have to wait a little longer as BBC has said the series would land “later this year.”
BBC have also acquired the rights to all six seasons of the original series, which was taken off Netflix at the start of this year.
Gossip Girl is set in New York. and follows the rich students of Constance Billard School For Girls and St. Jude’s School for Boys.
In the original series, which starred Blake Lively and Leighton Meister, the students were plagued by an anonymous website called ‘Gossip Girl’ that threatened to reveal their darkest secrets.
In the reboot, Gossip Girl has made a return to Constance Billard and St. Jude’s in the form of an Instagram page.
Kristen Bell, who narrated the original series, is set to return as narrator for the reboot but HBO have said none of the other original cast members will be making an appearance just yet.
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The reboot will star Whitney Peak, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Jordan Alexander, Thomas Doherty, Eli Brown, Zión Moreno, Savannah Smith and Tavi Gevinson.
The revival series will largely focus on the lives of main characters Audrey Hope, Zoya Lott and Otto ‘Obie’ Bergmann IV.
The show’s official summary reads: “Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.”
“The prestige series will address just how much social media-and the landscape of New York itself-has changed in the intervening years.”
