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WHV Press Release: Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season

Based On The Best-Selling Book Series by Cecily von Ziegesar, Warner Home Video Brings You…
GOSSIP GIRL: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

On DVD August 19, 2008,
Just in Time for the Season Two Premiere on The CW


BURBANK, CA (May 20, 2008) – Catch up with your favorite privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side as Warner Home Video releases Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season on DVD August 19, 2008. Developed for television by Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Chuck) and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), and executive produced by Schwartz, Savage, Leslie Morgenstein (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and Bob Levy (the upcoming The Clique), Gossip Girl stars many of young Hollywood’s hottest talent, including Blake Lively (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Leighton Meester (Entourage), Penn Badgley (The Mountain, Bedford Diaries), Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick, Jessica Szohr, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle. The five-disc set includes all 18 episodes from the first season and four hours of Special Features including three all-new Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Music Videos and a FREE Download of the original bestselling book read by Christina Ricci! Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season is priced to own on DVD at $59.98 SRP and has an order due date of July 15, 2008.
Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl is a one-hour drama based on the lives of privileged Manhattan prep school teens. The students first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), once the Upper East Side's most notorious party girl, is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing, albeit ultra-secretive, Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl's identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena's closest friend, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. Keeping track of the shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this wealthy and complex world isn't easy, but it's what Gossip Girl does best!

The series is from College Hill Pictures, Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Paramount Television Inc.



DVD Special Features
Gossip Girl 411 Featurette
GG Couture Featurette
A Gossip Girl Wedding Featurette
Music Videos
Gag Reel
Downloadable audio book of the original bestselling novel, Gossip Girl: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar, read by Christina Ricci


Episodes


1. Pilot

2. The Wild Brunch

3. Poison Ivy

4. Bad News Blair

5. Dare Devil

6. The Handmaiden's Tale

7. Victor, Victrola

8. Seventeen Candles

9. Blair Waldorf Must Pie!

10. Hi, Society

11. Roman Holiday

12. School Lies

13. A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate

14. The Blair Bitch Project

15. Desperately Seeking Serena

16. All About My Brother

17. Woman on the Verge

18. Much 'I Do' About Nothing



BASICS

$59.98 SRP / No MAP
Street Date: August 19, 2008
Languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese
Subtitles: ESDH, Complex Chinese, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese,
Latin Spanish, French Canadian, Korean
Dolby Surround 5.1, Widescreen
Running Time: approx 1024 minutes (episodes and special features)
DVD Catalog # 1000039249