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Fans of the OC may have their old fixed again when Gossip Girl airs this Wednesday. The new show will be produced by Josh Schwartz, the same man behind the OC, and will once again feature the rich lives of high school teens, but this time, they’re even wealthier! Gossip Girls (based on the best-selling novel series) is about spoiled Manhattan private school teens concerned with social status, dating and, naturally, gossip. “The progeny of aristocratic New York families, they can converse fluently about art and culture and roam the city’s grand edifices as if they were ambling through their backyards,” the LA Times says of the characters. The show has received some concerns from parents already because the series is said to feature a lot of partying and underage drinking. Parents familiar with the book know “the series promotes narcissism, casually depicts underage drinking and sex and glamorizes the kind of bad behavior that has landed stars such as Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears on the cover of tabloids.” But Schwartz says, “you have to write them realistically, which means occassionally they are going to do things that aren’t necessarily recommended by the Board of Family Viewing.”  Set in the rarefied milieu of Manhattan's Upper East Side, the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar have an ardent following among teens, who lap up the tales of a set of pampered private-school students and the anonymous Gossip Girl blog that snarkily documents their misdeeds. That built-in fan base -- according to its publisher, the 11-book series has more than 4.5 million copies in print -- combined with Schwartz's reputation as a purveyor of smart, sexy teen drama, has helped generate feverish anticipation for the CW television show long before its Wednesday premiere.
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