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tvguide : How to Fix Gossip Girl

It's not Gossip Girl here, but we are writing to you from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Nevertheless, we have to talk: This meeting has been convened because it's time to fix our beloved Gossip Girl. The ratings have dropped to a season low of just 2.2 million, and while many of us are still streaming it with relish, it must be said that creatively, the show is starting to stink like so much day-old smoked salmon. As others warn of the impending death of Gossip Girl, let's see if we can do something to help. Pull up a Chesterfield sofa and partake in the holiday-weekend brunch buffet we've prepared — Mochaccinos for everybody! — remove your platinum cufflinks, roll up your sleeves and let's get to work. While the show is on a brief hiatus, we've come up with a few fixes, but we need your suggestions as well. XOXO.

PROBLEM Serena and Dan's constant breakups and reconciliations have lost any sort of narrative weight.
SOLUTION Serena and Dan need to stay together, or break up — for good. While there might be a certain degree of high-school realism to the way that S. and Lonely Boy have ridden the On Again/Off Again Express, it's annoying to watch. Plus, there's virtually no difference between the two scenarios. They always stay friends anyway, and the brief times they do part ways, it's always for some stupid reason, like Serena wanting her mother to find true love with Rufus, not because they actually don't like each other anymore. We'd actually vote for keeping them together. It's cool to have one committed couple in the mix, even one as boring as these two are.

PROBLEM Miss Blair's beloved Dorota is underused.
SOLUTION Shady Dorota! The producers have been smart to sketch Blair's Polish nursemaid as vaguely as they have. As far as we know, Blair actually owns Dorota. But look more closely, and you'll see something more knowing behind those obedient eyes. Announcing our new crazy theory: Though others have different ideas, we think that Dorota is actually ... Gossip Girl herself! Even if she isn't, wouldn't it be fun if the writers were to drop some misleading hints? It'll get the fans OMFG'ing all over the place.

PROBLEM Chuck acts like a 38-year-old lothario celebrating his latest divorce.
SOLUTION He might be Chuck Bass, but he's still a 17-year-old high school student. His latest storylines — corporate sabotage? his bender in Thailand? that Eyes Wide Shut sex-party scenario? — have stretched the boundaries of plausibility for too long. Even rich kids have to conjugate verbs in French class and spike the punch at the dance every once in a while. If nothing else, seeing Chuck's exasperation at, say, having to play badminton in gym would offer the show's costume designers the opportunity to conceive an athletic ascot — the "ath-scot," if you will — for him to wear. Stay in school, Chuck!

PROBLEM Chace Crawford's performance as Nate is like human Sominex.
SOLUTION Reboot Nate — or get rid of him altogether. Chace Crawford is an extremely good-looking guy. And we have to admit that the idea of his curve-ball relationship with Vanessa sounded promising, even after suffering through his family's painfully drawn-out drug and money scandals and his charisma-free romances with Blair, the Cougar Countess and Jenny. The writers need to go out on a limb with Nate: Give him cancer, brand him a date rapist, make him a Phish fanatic, shave his head — anything that will wake him from his dramatic coma!

PROBLEM Serena is too nice.
SOLUTION The show is constantly reminding us of Serena's bad-girl past. Unfortunately, as played by the wholesome, adorable Blake Lively, Serena is about as threatening as a baby koala. That said, we know she has it in her. Serena certainly isn't above using her feminine wiles to get what she wants; the writers need to amp this up and find her inner party bitch. While it could be argued that Blair already has this territory covered, we'd counter that it might go a long way toward explaining why these two are BFFs in the first place.

PROBLEM There are lots of parties, but not enough parties.
SOLUTION Substance abuse! It's time to embrace the show's inherent nihilism, and put some lives in danger in the process. Which means: Bring on the binge drinking! Cocaine! Pilfered pharmaceuticals! We're not suggesting that the show actually condone these activities (if acted well, it will be clear who's making the correct choices in such situations), but one more party scene on this show without even a whiff of overindulgence is going to drive us to drink (more).

PROBLEM Jenny has no storyline.
SOLUTION Let Jenny be an aspiring fashion designer, with the emphasis on aspiring. Her detour into the runway world gave the show some much-needed scenery changing. Having her drop out of school and pursue emancipation, however, was totally out of character for such a Daddy's girl. She can work for Eleanor Waldorf, but make sure she remains a pitiable intern in the process. Let her talent develop at a realistic pace. Also: We might get letters for this, but let her dress like a wacko and line her eyes with as much raccoon makeup as she likes. It gives the starchy, preppy show some badly needed aesthetic texture.

PROBLEM Brooklyn is unfairly — and not very funnily — maligned.
SOLUTION Enough with the Brooklyn jokes. Anyone who has been to the five boroughs any time within the last decade or so knows that Brooklyn is no longer the punchline it once was — whether it ever deserved to be or not. There are almost as many shoe boutiques and cupcake cafes in Park Slope as there are on Park Avenue now; it's not deserving of the show's elitist jabs. (Queens, on the other hand....)

So we've had our say. How would you fix Gossip Girl?

Popularité des acteurs sur TV.com


Kristen Bell 9.7/10
Leighton 9.3
Penn 9.2
Kelly 9.1
Chace 9.0
Matthew 9.0
Blake 7.9
Ed 7.4
Jessica 6.6
Connor 6.1
Taylor 6.1

TVGuide Sexy Poll
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1. SEXIEST CAST
10% Gossip Girl
24% Lost
32% 90210
6% Grey's Anatomy
26% Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles


3. SEXIEST COUPLE
2% Chuck and Blair (Gossip Girl)
51% Riggins and Lila (Friday Night Lights)
3% Justin and Rebecca (Brothers & Sisters)
1% Jim and Pam (The Office)
41% Derek and Meredith (Grey’s Anatomy)


6. SEXIEST STYLE
39% Don Draper (Mad Men)
3% Edie Britt (Desperate Housewives)
11% Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl)
30% Wilhelmina Slater (Ugly Betty)
13% Lisa Cuddy (House)


7. SEXIEST HAIR
48% Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live)
4% Blake Lively (Gossip Girl)
1% Simon Baker (The Mentalist)
1% Emily Procter (CSI: Miami)
44% Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy)


16. SEXIEST SIBLINGS
13% Dan and Jenny Humphrey (Gossip Girl)
39% Dean and Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
17% Derek and Julianne Hough (Dancing With the Stars)
22% The Walkers (Brothers and Sisters)
7% Meredith and Lexie Grey (Grey’s Anatomy)

Les meilleures ventes de DVD de séries en 2008
source : serieslive.com

Quelles sont les séries qui se vendent le mieux en France en DVD ?
Matthieu Viot, le 23/02/2009 à 16h11
Le magazine Ecran Total a révélé les chiffres de vente des coffrets de DVD pour l'année 2008. Découvrez le classement ci-dessous.

1. Dr House (Saisons 1 & 2) : 213 000 ventes cumulées (Universal Pictures)
2. Desperate Housewives (saison 3) : 91 000 ventes (Walt Disney Home Pictures)
3. Lost : Les Disparus (saison 4) : 86 000 ventes (Walt Disney Home Pictures)
4. Kaamelott (Livre III) : 83 000 ventes (M6 Vidéo)
5. Grey's Anatomy (saison 4) : 76 000 ventes (Walt Disney Home Pictures)
6. Prison Break (Saison 3) : 73 650 ventes (FPE)
7. Damages (Saison 1) : 50 000 ventes (Sony Pictures)
8. Les Tudors (Saison 1) : 50 000 ventes (Sony Pictures)
9. Les Frères Scott (Saison 4) : 40 000 ventes (Warner)
10. Stargate : L'Arche de Vérité : 35 000 ventes (FPE)
11. Stargate : Continuum : 35 000 ventes (FPE)
12. Têtes à claques (Saison 1) : 33 000 ventes (Studio Canal)
13. Veronica Mars (Saison 1) : 25 000 ventes (Warner)
14. Gossip Girl (Saison 1) : 19 000 ventes (Warner)
15. Kaamelott (Livre I et II) : 15 000 ventes (M6 Vidéo)
16. Skins (Saison 1) : 10 000 ventes (Studio Canal)



Bien évidement, le classement n'est pas exhaustif étant donné que l'on n'y retrouve pas l'ensemble des éditeurs DVD en France tels que TF1 Vidéo (Les Experts), mais les chiffres donnent une idée des ventes de DVD de séries.

hypnoweb.net : Alternative Awards 2009


Le plus grand séducteur : Chuck Bass 2è
Acteur le plus sexy (moins de 30 ans) : Chace Crawford 2è
Votre fratrie préférée : Dan & Jenny 5è
Couple préféré off screen : Blake & Penn 3è
Actrice la plus sexy (moins de 30 ans) : Blake 4è, Leighton 5è
Le parent le plus cool : Rufus 3è
La plus belle amitié : Serena & Blair 8è
Votre triangle amoureux préféré : Chuc, Blair & Nate 5è
Le personnage le plus agaçant/pénible : Jenny 5è
Votre lieu ou ville préférée : Upper East Side 4è

La version docu-réalité de "Gossip Girl" débarque
source : ozap.com

Citation :

Publié par Jordan Grevet
Vendredi 10 Avril 2009 16h43

Chuck et Blair peuvent aller se rhabiller ! Comme nous vous l'annoncions il y a quelques semaines (lire la brève), la chaîne câblée américaine Bravo développe actuellement une nouvelle émission de docu-réalité suivant les péripéties de la jeunesse privilégiée new-yorkaise. On en sait désormais un peu plus sur ce programme s'inspirant très largement de la fiction Gossip Girl.

L'émission s'appellera NYC Prep et sera diffusée sur Bravo à partir du 16 juin prochain. Elle se focalisera sur six lycéens faisant partie de l'élite new-yorkaise et fréquentant les endroits les plus branchés de Manhattan.

De leurs séances de shopping aux cours qu'ils suivent dans un lycée privé en passant par les soirées sophistiquées qu'ils organisent, l'émission proposera d'infiltrer l'intimité de ces jeunes gens privilégiés dont « la vie n'est pas toujours aussi rose que l'on pourrait le croire », fait savoir un communiqué de presse de la chaîne.

Parmi les adolescents qui seront suivis dans NYC Prep : Jessica, 17 ans et aspirant à une carrière dans la mode, JC, un fêtard de 18 ans, Taylor, une lycéenne de 15 ans inscrite en école publique qui s'incruste dans les soirées, et Sebastian, 16 ans, dont les origines françaises font craquer toutes les filles.