The Gossip Girl reboot premieres today and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ve been waiting a while for this reboot and judging by the trailers, the cast looks bigger and more diverse than the original. But still, we have one question—why isn’t the original cast returning? The only member returning is the voice of Gossip Girl, Kristen Bell. So, why is that?

The show’s creator Joshua Safran made the choice not to feature the original cast members. “We made a decision early on—and I was nervous about this decision, but definitely came to believe it was right—that the audience would never accept these characters if they were in the shadow of the original characters,” he told The Daily Beast.

He did share there would be some familiar faces, but they wouldn’t be the main cast. The reason is the show’s cast is just too big—there are 16 regulars and 22 recurring characters instead of the original’s 12.

“There isn’t enough screen time,” Safran added. “If Blair showed up for two scenes, you’d say, ‘I want more Blair.’ The decision was: Let’s get season 1 under our belt, and should we get season 2, we’ll have the chance to bring in cameos that are more than glorified cameos but actually give them storylines.”

This means there’s potential to see Blake Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen, Leighton Meester’s Blaire Waldorf, Penn Badgley’s Dan Humphrey, Chace Crawford’s Nate Archibald, and Ed Westwick’s Chuck Bass in Season 2. We can’t wait!

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HBO Max had a pretty rocky start when it launched last year, but people are finally ready to give it a chance. This streaming service is experiencing a huge boom thanks to the amazing shows it recently introduced to the world and new ones that it has on the way.

Mare of Easttown

This crime drama series starring Kate Winslet centers on a small-town detective trying to solve the disappearance of a young woman in her hometown. It’s technically an HBO show, but it brought countless new subscribers to HBO Max—and many even companied on Twitter when the streaming service crashed just in time for the season finale.

Friends: The Reunion

This reunion special was supposed to premiere on HBO Max when it launched, but it took a year longer to bring it to life. It will give you nostalgia overload if you’re a huge fan of the original series since it shows its cast and creators, and a slate of A-list guest stars coming back to discuss its legacy.

Gossip Girl

Reboots and revivals are pretty much the backbones of HBO Max’s future programming. One of the most anticipated shows comes in the form of the Gossip Girl reboot, which focuses on a set of brand-new Gen-Z characters, with Kristen Bell coming back to spill the tea as the voice of Gossip Girl.

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After a lot of rumors and speculations, HBO Max finally confirmed they gave the highly-anticipated revival of The Sex and the City a green light. This is amazing news for fans of the show, but it doesn’t come as a surprise since this isn’t the first buzzy reboot coming to this streaming service.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis are expected to return to their respective roles from the original show, making this the most exciting HBO Max reboot to date. The new show will be titled And Just Like That… and it will show three BFFs navigating love and friendship in their 50s (without Samantha Jones since Kim Cattrall won’t be returning).

The involvement of the original cast makes this the most exciting HBO Max revivals to date, but it’s not the only one. After failing to make a splash with its launch, this streaming service is starting to heavily rely on nostalgic reboots to pump up its subscriber count.

Most notably, HBO Max developed a new Gen Z version of Gossip Girl, set to premiere later this year. The Pretty Little Liars spin-off Original Sin is also on the way, in addition to Grease: Rydell High and Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. HBO Max is planning to release a total of around 50 shows in 2021 alone, and pop culture nostalgia seems to be the driving force behind some of them, but we’re yet to see if this will prove to be the winning formula.

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Revivals and reboots will be all the rage in 2021, and we had to pick the most anticipated one, we’d go with the new version of Gossip Girl. This series is coming to HBO Max later this year, and here’s everything we know about it so far.

Plotline

According to the official logline, the revival will take place eight years after the original series. It will introduce a new generation of New York private school teens, and explore how much social media and the landscape of NYC changed over the course of the past decade.

Connection to the Original

The new show will share DNA with the original Gossip Girl, and some of the beloved characters will be mentioned through passing. It’s still unclear if any of them will return for a cameo, apart from Kristen Bell, who’s set to voice the titular narrator.

Cast and Characters

The latest news we got from the Gossip Girl camp is the first look at the main cast. Emily Alyn Lind, Thomas Doherty, and Whitney Peak were previously announced as some of the main cast members, and HBO Max recently revealed the names of their characters and words that best describe them, such as influence, ambition, and privilege.

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We can always count on memes to put a smile on our faces, no matter how bleak the world may seem, and that was certainly the case in 2020. This year has given us some pretty amazing viral memes, and many of them drew inspiration from popular culture.

Tiger King

Calling Tiger King one of the biggest cultural phenomena of 2020 wouldn’t be an understatement. The hit Netflix docu-series gave us that viral “Carole Baskin” TikTok song and countless hilarious memes.

“Gossip Girl” Titles

In one of the most ridiculous and effortless memes of 2020, the title of Gossip Girl was turned into all sorts of hilarious acronyms, composed by rearranging or blanking the letters or creating funny rhymes.

Stunned Robert Pattinson

2020 was the year when many silly celebrity moments from the past were pluck from obscurity and took the central stage. One of the best examples is the stunned reaction of Robert Pattinson standing in a kitchen wearing a brown tracksuit while filming his indie film Good Time.

Sue Sylvester

Sue Sylvester’s iconic Glee line “I am going to create an environment that is so toxic” also remerged this year and ended up being transformed into a viral meme through hilarious variations of the original quote.

The post Pop Culture-Inspired Memes Were Making Us Laugh in 2020 appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

2020 is all about making old things new again, and reboots of the shows we enjoyed watching as children are getting new life. We can’t wait to see what some of our favorite characters have been up to through the years, and there are a lot of revivals and reboots to look forward to this year.

Saved By the Bell

This series aired from 1989 to 1993, and it’s set to premiere on NBC’s upcoming streaming platform Peacock, which launches in April 2020. Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris), and Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano) will be reprising their roles. In the follow-up to the series, Morris is the governor of California and he sends low-income high school students to Pacific Palisades’ wealthy Bayside High.

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl will be coming back with a completely new cast of teenagers in a 10-episode reboot of the series on HBO Max. The only familiar voice returning is Kristen Bell, who was the narrator of the original series. The logline 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.” 

Punky Brewster

Soleil Moon Frye will be reprising her role as the lead in the Punky Brewster reboot, which will air on Peacock. In June, Frye shared her excitement about the reboot on Twitter, “She is back! I am back! #punkypower forever! Yipppeeee.”

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Gossip Girl is the show that made us envious of those who get to lead their lives in New York’s Upper East Side, but at the same time relieved we’re not in the middle of the endless drama that was going on there.

According to Deadline, the reboot plot will start eight years after the original show’s ending, and it’s basically a sequel on the OG series, which means we probably won’t see the return of our favorite characters.

“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,” reads a press release, according to Vulture. “The prestige series will address just how much social media—and the landscape of New York itself—has changed in the intervening years.”

The new Gossip Girl will have 10 episodes that will be available on the new streaming service HBO‌ Max. The new characters and actors have not yet been announced. The release date hasn’t been confirmed, but the show’s IMDb listing reads 2020 as the year when it’s going to be released.

Gossip Girl initially ran for 6 seasons from 2007 to 2012 and had 121 episodes.

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The Gossip Girl reboot premieres today and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ve been waiting a while for this reboot and judging by the trailers, the cast looks bigger and more diverse than the original. But still, we have one question—why isn’t the original cast returning? The only member returning is the voice of Gossip Girl, Kristen Bell. So, why is that?

The show’s creator Joshua Safran made the choice not to feature the original cast members. “We made a decision early on—and I was nervous about this decision, but definitely came to believe it was right—that the audience would never accept these characters if they were in the shadow of the original characters,” he told The Daily Beast.

He did share there would be some familiar faces, but they wouldn’t be the main cast. The reason is the show’s cast is just too big—there are 16 regulars and 22 recurring characters instead of the original’s 12.

“There isn’t enough screen time,” Safran added. “If Blair showed up for two scenes, you’d say, ‘I want more Blair.’ The decision was: Let’s get season 1 under our belt, and should we get season 2, we’ll have the chance to bring in cameos that are more than glorified cameos but actually give them storylines.”

This means there’s potential to see Blake Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen, Leighton Meester’s Blaire Waldorf, Penn Badgley’s Dan Humphrey, Chace Crawford’s Nate Archibald, and Ed Westwick’s Chuck Bass in Season 2. We can’t wait!

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HBO Max had a pretty rocky start when it launched last year, but people are finally ready to give it a chance. This streaming service is experiencing a huge boom thanks to the amazing shows it recently introduced to the world and new ones that it has on the way.

Mare of Easttown

This crime drama series starring Kate Winslet centers on a small-town detective trying to solve the disappearance of a young woman in her hometown. It’s technically an HBO show, but it brought countless new subscribers to HBO Max—and many even companied on Twitter when the streaming service crashed just in time for the season finale.

Friends: The Reunion

This reunion special was supposed to premiere on HBO Max when it launched, but it took a year longer to bring it to life. It will give you nostalgia overload if you’re a huge fan of the original series since it shows its cast and creators, and a slate of A-list guest stars coming back to discuss its legacy.

Gossip Girl

Reboots and revivals are pretty much the backbones of HBO Max’s future programming. One of the most anticipated shows comes in the form of the Gossip Girl reboot, which focuses on a set of brand-new Gen-Z characters, with Kristen Bell coming back to spill the tea as the voice of Gossip Girl.

The post Everyone’s Talking About HBO Max Thanks to These Three Shows appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

After a lot of rumors and speculations, HBO Max finally confirmed they gave the highly-anticipated revival of The Sex and the City a green light. This is amazing news for fans of the show, but it doesn’t come as a surprise since this isn’t the first buzzy reboot coming to this streaming service.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis are expected to return to their respective roles from the original show, making this the most exciting HBO Max reboot to date. The new show will be titled And Just Like That… and it will show three BFFs navigating love and friendship in their 50s (without Samantha Jones since Kim Cattrall won’t be returning).

The involvement of the original cast makes this the most exciting HBO Max revivals to date, but it’s not the only one. After failing to make a splash with its launch, this streaming service is starting to heavily rely on nostalgic reboots to pump up its subscriber count.

Most notably, HBO Max developed a new Gen Z version of Gossip Girl, set to premiere later this year. The Pretty Little Liars spin-off Original Sin is also on the way, in addition to Grease: Rydell High and Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. HBO Max is planning to release a total of around 50 shows in 2021 alone, and pop culture nostalgia seems to be the driving force behind some of them, but we’re yet to see if this will prove to be the winning formula.

The post Reboots Are Becoming the Backbone of HBO Max’s Original Programming appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

Revivals and reboots will be all the rage in 2021, and we had to pick the most anticipated one, we’d go with the new version of Gossip Girl. This series is coming to HBO Max later this year, and here’s everything we know about it so far.

Plotline

According to the official logline, the revival will take place eight years after the original series. It will introduce a new generation of New York private school teens, and explore how much social media and the landscape of NYC changed over the course of the past decade.

Connection to the Original

The new show will share DNA with the original Gossip Girl, and some of the beloved characters will be mentioned through passing. It’s still unclear if any of them will return for a cameo, apart from Kristen Bell, who’s set to voice the titular narrator.

Cast and Characters

The latest news we got from the Gossip Girl camp is the first look at the main cast. Emily Alyn Lind, Thomas Doherty, and Whitney Peak were previously announced as some of the main cast members, and HBO Max recently revealed the names of their characters and words that best describe them, such as influence, ambition, and privilege.

The post Everything You Should Know About the Upcoming “Gossip Girl” Revival appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

We can always count on memes to put a smile on our faces, no matter how bleak the world may seem, and that was certainly the case in 2020. This year has given us some pretty amazing viral memes, and many of them drew inspiration from popular culture.

Tiger King

Calling Tiger King one of the biggest cultural phenomena of 2020 wouldn’t be an understatement. The hit Netflix docu-series gave us that viral “Carole Baskin” TikTok song and countless hilarious memes.

“Gossip Girl” Titles

In one of the most ridiculous and effortless memes of 2020, the title of Gossip Girl was turned into all sorts of hilarious acronyms, composed by rearranging or blanking the letters or creating funny rhymes.

Stunned Robert Pattinson

2020 was the year when many silly celebrity moments from the past were pluck from obscurity and took the central stage. One of the best examples is the stunned reaction of Robert Pattinson standing in a kitchen wearing a brown tracksuit while filming his indie film Good Time.

Sue Sylvester

Sue Sylvester’s iconic Glee line “I am going to create an environment that is so toxic” also remerged this year and ended up being transformed into a viral meme through hilarious variations of the original quote.

The post Pop Culture-Inspired Memes Were Making Us Laugh in 2020 appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

2020 is all about making old things new again, and reboots of the shows we enjoyed watching as children are getting new life. We can’t wait to see what some of our favorite characters have been up to through the years, and there are a lot of revivals and reboots to look forward to this year.

Saved By the Bell

This series aired from 1989 to 1993, and it’s set to premiere on NBC’s upcoming streaming platform Peacock, which launches in April 2020. Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris), and Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano) will be reprising their roles. In the follow-up to the series, Morris is the governor of California and he sends low-income high school students to Pacific Palisades’ wealthy Bayside High.

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl will be coming back with a completely new cast of teenagers in a 10-episode reboot of the series on HBO Max. The only familiar voice returning is Kristen Bell, who was the narrator of the original series. The logline 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.” 

Punky Brewster

Soleil Moon Frye will be reprising her role as the lead in the Punky Brewster reboot, which will air on Peacock. In June, Frye shared her excitement about the reboot on Twitter, “She is back! I am back! #punkypower forever! Yipppeeee.”

The post The TV Reboots We’re Looking Forward to in 2020 appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

Gossip Girl is the show that made us envious of those who get to lead their lives in New York’s Upper East Side, but at the same time relieved we’re not in the middle of the endless drama that was going on there.

According to Deadline, the reboot plot will start eight years after the original show’s ending, and it’s basically a sequel on the OG series, which means we probably won’t see the return of our favorite characters.

“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,” reads a press release, according to Vulture. “The prestige series will address just how much social media—and the landscape of New York itself—has changed in the intervening years.”

The new Gossip Girl will have 10 episodes that will be available on the new streaming service HBO‌ Max. The new characters and actors have not yet been announced. The release date hasn’t been confirmed, but the show’s IMDb listing reads 2020 as the year when it’s going to be released.

Gossip Girl initially ran for 6 seasons from 2007 to 2012 and had 121 episodes.

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