2. Niki Farnworth By Nicole Farnworth

3. Main characters Blake Lively (Serena Van der Woodsen) Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf) Chace Crawford (Nate Archibald) Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) Penn Dayton Badgley (Dan Humphrey) Taylor Momsen (Jenny Humphreys) Kelly Rutherford (Lily Van der Woodsen) Matthew Settle (Rufus Humphrey) Connor Paolo (Eric Van der Woodsen)

4. About the show Falls under: Drama, Romance and teen drama genres Ran for 5 years First episode aired: September 19 2007 Last episode aired: December 17 2012 Blake Lively is the highest paid making £60,000 per episode She is not only highest paid of the show but is one of the highest paid TV actresses

5. Awards and Nominations 35 nominations and 19 wins Blake Lively won ‘Performance in a Drama Episode’ Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley won ‘Best Male lead in a Drama’ Ed Westwick won ‘Best villain on a TV drama’ The cast won ‘best cast on a drama series’

6. Clip Season 1 trailer which advertises the story line and background plot of season 1 of Gossip Girl

7. Chuck and Blair Long term romance of the classic good girl latches on to the daring rebel Many plot twists in the relationship Won awards for best TV show relationship Cutest couple 2009

8. Who is Gossip Girl? Online storm of who Gossip Girl actually is No clues were given, however re-watching it all makes sense Comes forward to save Chuck and Blair

9. No. in series No. in season Title D irected byOriginal air date U.S. viewers (in millions) 11 “Pilot" Mark Piznarski September 19, 2007 (2007-09- 19) 3.50 22 "The Wild Brunch" Mark Piznarski September 26, 2007 (2007-09- 26) 2.48 33 "Poison Ivy" J. Miller Tobin October 3, 2007 (2007-10-03) 2.75 44 "Bad News Blair" Patrick Norris October 10, 2007 (2007-10-10) 2.80 55 "Dare Devil" Jamie Babbit October 17, 2007 (2007-10-17) 2.41 66 "The Handmaiden's Tale" Norman Buckley October 24, 2007 (2007-10-24) 2.54 77 "Victor, Victrola" Tony Warmby November 7, 2007 (2007-11-07) 2.52 88 "Seventeen Candles" Lee Shallat-chemel November 14, 2007 (2007-11- 14) 2.95 99 "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" Mark Piznarski November 28, 2007 (2007-11- 28) 2.93 10 "Hi, Society" Patrick Norris December 5, 2007 (2007-12-05) 2.44 11 "Roman Holiday" Michael Fields December 19, 2007 (2007-12- 19) 1.81 12 "School Lies" Tony Wharmby January 2, 2008 (2008-01-02) 2.19 13 “The thin line between Chuck and Nate" Norman Buckley January 9, 2008 (2008-01-09) 2.27 14 "The Blair Bitch Project" J. Miller Tobin April 21, 2008 (2008-04-21) 2.50 15 “Desperately seeking Serena" Michael Fields April 28, 2008 (2008-04-28) 2.53 16 “All about my brother" Janice Cooke May 5, 2008 (2008-05-05) 2.12 17 "Woman on the Verge" Tony Wharmby May 12, 2008 (2008-05-12) 2.71 18 “Much ‘I do’ about Nothing" Norman Buckley May 19, 2008 (2008-05-19) 3.00

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