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 the privileged Manhattan prep school teens. The students first learn that Serena Van Der Woodsen, once the Upper East Side's most notorious party girl, is back in town the way they learn all the important news: 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 the website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena's closest friend, Blair Waldorf, is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. Keeping track on the shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this wealthy and complex world isn't easy, but it's what Gossip Girl does best!