Greetings, Higher East Siders. You’ve got heard of cancel tradition, however what about present cancellation? HBO Max’s Gossip Woman has come to an finish. Creator, showrunner, and government producer Joshua Safran took to Instagram to announce that Warner Bros. Discovery is just not transferring on with a 3rd season of the reimagining of the CW sequence: “It’s with the heaviest of hearts that I’ve to announce GOSSIP GIRL won’t be persevering with on HBO Max.”
A continuation of the hit CW sequence that made family names of its younger stars Leighton Meester, Penn Badgely, and Blake Full of life, HBO Max’s Gossip Woman premiered on the streaming platform on July eighth, 2021. The 2021 model launched a recent and various crop of hyper-privileged college students at Constance Billard-St. Judes, portrayed by a crop of relative unknowns together with Jordan Alexander, Whitney Peak, Thomas Doherty, and Evan Mock. In contrast to the unique, which did not reveal the identification of Gossip Woman till the sequence finale, the shiny and costly reboot established the identification of Gossip Woman—the nameless social media account terrorizing the UES facet nonetheless voiced by Kristen Bell—within the sequence premiere. Viewers had been let in on the gossip that the lecturers at Constance Billard, led by Tavi Gevinson‘s Kate Miller, had been the brand new Gossip Woman.
This new idea was initially met with combined evaluations, with Vainness Truthful‘s chief critic Richard Lawson calling the reboot “drab and toothless.” Whereas the present acquired off to a rocky begin, the second season was thought-about by critics an enchancment on the primary throughout the board and presently holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. “For probably the most half, Gossip Woman improves upon its flaws from its first season because it lets the characters embrace being rich, petty, and simply completely messy,” wrote Diana Shen in her evaluate for Paste Journal.
Gossip Woman is the most recent sequence to fall sequence to get axed amid the chaos at Warner Bros. Discovery. In an effort to offset the prices of the multi-billion greenback merger, Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max’s father or mother firm, has canceled a handful of reveals together with Los Espookys, Love Life, The Minx, and Westworld previously few months. A few of these reveals, like Westworld, have additionally been eliminated completely from the streaming platform. It is unclear but whether or not Gossip Woman will stay on HBO Max after its sequence finale on Thursday, February ninth.
Regardless of being canceled by HBO Max, Gossip Woman might discover a dwelling on one other streaming platform, like season two of The Minx touchdown at Starz. In his Instagram put up, Safran wrote that Gossip Woman is “presently searching for one other dwelling, however on this local weather, that may show an uphill bottle.” He continued: “So if that is the top, a minimum of we went out on the best of highs.” XOXO, you already know you really liked her.
