Gossip Girl is an American teen drama TV series which is extension and a standalone sequel to The CW television series of the same name which is based on the novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar. Nearly a decade after the conclusion of the original events, a new cast of Manhattan private schoolers takes the lead under the watchful eye of Gossip Girl, while demonstrating how much social media and the landscape of New York City has changed in the intervening years.