News Roundup: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and 90210

1 09 2009
  • SoapNet posted a Fall TV Preview for One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and 90210, but it’s the same photos that have been circulating for  a few weeks now.
  • The CW has a cool video from One Tree Hill’s first table read for the 7th season.  It’s also on YouTube.
  • E!Online posted “sneak peeks” of the Gossip Girl premiere.
  • The second-to-last round of the Gossip Girl tournament has been posted.
  • Thanks to Erin for sharing this link. It’s a Gossip Girl-inspired hair tip!
  • Perez Hilton posted a picture of Blake Lively (Serena, Blake Lively) on the set of The Town.
  • In addition to a new comedy, Josh Schwartz (creator, The O.C,; Gossip Girl) is also developing a dramedy.  Stephanie Savage is involved as well.
  • Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) will appear on Project Runway this Thursday.
  • There’s a drop of 90210 talk in this interview with Rumer Willis (Gia, 90210).




Happy Birthday Blake Lively and Rachel Bilson!

25 08 2009

We have two teen drama birthdays today!

Lively (Serena, Gossip Girl) turns 22.

Check out this video slideshow of Lively in recent years.

Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) turns 28.

Below is a fun video of Bilson’s best bloopers from The O.C.





News Roundup: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, 90210 and More

10 08 2009
  • We’ll be playing trivia tomorrow night.  Details will be posted in the morning.
  • There’s a recap of One Tree Hill season 6 on YouTube.
  • Rob Buckley (Clayton, One Tree Hill) tweeted from the set.
  • The new One Tree Hill Podcast continues its review of season 3.
  • There’s several new One Tree Hill promos and new Gossip Girl ones.
  • At the Teen Choice Awards, Gossip Girl won for choice drama, while Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl) won for choice drama actress and actor, respectively.  Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) won for choice TV villain. 90210 and its cast lost in all the categories it was nominated for, as did Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) and Joshua Jackson (Pacey, Dawson’s Creek).
  • MTVNews.com posted articles with Meester, Westwick and Crawford after their Teen Choice experiences.
  • Apparently I missed Westwick and Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl) in Chicago this weekend.  Oh, well.  Once you’ve met them once…
  • LAist.com put together a map of locations used in the first season of 90210.  They based it on the same site I use, 90210Locations.
  • Some teen drama stars are include in this photo gallery at E!Online.
  • Apparently Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210) agrees with me that The Lake is like Dawson’s Creek.
  • If you want “insider info” on Southland, the NBC drama starring Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.) and Michael Cudlitz (Tony, Beverly Hills 90210, you can follow Cudlitz on Twitter.




Teen Drama Casts Then and Now, Part 3

5 08 2009

MONDAY: BEVERLY HILLS, 90210

TUESDAY: DAWSON’S CREEK

Come back tomorrow for part 4!





News Roundup: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, 90210 and More

3 08 2009
  • We’ll be playing trivia again tomorrow night.  Details will be posted in the morning.
  • Chuck (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl) and Blair (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl) are nominated for Hottest Hook-Up in the Tubey Awards.
  • In the August 7 issue of Entertainment Weekly, the mag takes a snipe at Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl): “Taylor Momsen says ‘I would eat a boy my age alive.’ Well, at least she’d be eating something.” (Momsen’s quote is from her Teen Vogue interview.)
  • Also in that issue, Kristen Bell (Gossip Girl, Gossip Girl) is not “seriously campaigning to appear on screen.
  • Celebrity-babies.com has an article on Kelly Rutherford (Lily, Gossip Girl) hiding her pregnancy last season.
  • Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor for Gossip Girl, shares some of her favorite “up-and-coming artists,” including Noisettes who will appear on One Tree Hill this season.
  • E! Online has video interviews with some of the Gossip Girl cast and a somewhat-spoilish article on One Tree Hill’s new season.
  • There are several new vlogs with Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) on the SoGoPro site.
  • The blog for Web Series Magazine has a post on Burton’s, um, webseries.
  • Saxsen  Norton will reportedly appear on One Tree Hill this season.
  • The CW Source and One Tree Hill Podcast are continuing their reviews of prior seasons.
  • AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) spoke with E!Online about who she’d like to guest-star on the show.
  • According to Ausiello, Anne Gillespie (Jackie, Beverly Hills 90210) will be back on 90210.
  • Grant Show (Jake, Beverly Hills 90210) says he may reprise his role on the new Melrose Place.
  • According to the above issue of EW, The Storm, starring Luke Perry (Dylan, Beverly Hills 90210) and James Van Der Beek (Dawson, Dawson’s Creek) “stirred up a paltry 4.9 million viewers.”
  • Ali Larter (Kristy, Dawson’s Creek) got married over the weekend and Joshua Jackson (Pacey, Dawson’s Creek) was reportedly in attendance.
  • You can vote for your “favorite fashionista”: Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) or Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.)




News Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and The O.C.

29 07 2009




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and Dawson’s Creek

16 06 2009
  • Buddy TV has an article on Luke Perry (Dylan, Beverly Hills 90210).
  • This is too funny.  A girl keeps having dreams where Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210) and Perry appear!  And now she found someone to analyze them!
  • Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) is included in a charticle on celebrity memoirs.
  • 90210 and Gossip Girl were nominated for several Teen Choice Awards.  Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) scored a nom as well.
  • Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Cam Gigandet (Volchuk, The O.C.) talked about their high school graduations with MTV.
  • So now it seems Katie Holmes (Joey, Dawson’s Creek) WILL appear on So You Think You Can Dance.




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and More

3 06 2009
  • TVGuide.com is reporting that there will be a new male character introduced next season as a “replacement” for Ethan (Dustin Milligan).
  • It was officially announced that Matt Lanter (Liam, 90210) will be back next season as a regular.
  • Peter Facinelli, husband of Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) said they were alarmed that news reports blew her comments on her heart issues out of proportion.  He also said Jennie currently has a broken foot.
  • Penn Badgley (Dan, Gossip Girl) says he may have a music career in the “future.”
  • The extras for the One Tree Hill Season Six DVD have officially been announced.
  • Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) is inviting fans to send in questions to her Southern Gothics Production site.
  • James Lafferty (Nathan, One Tree Hill) participated in a Battle of the Sexes basketball game last night.  You can see a little footage here and read a short story on it here.
  • Joshua Jackson (Pacey, Dawson’s Creek) and girlfriend Diane Kruger are planning to move in together.
  • The New York Observer has a feature story on Michael Pitt (Henry, Dawson’s Creek).
  • Tom Kapinos, one of Dawson’s Creek former showrunners, slammed the show and the cast during a recent television panel.
  • Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) says she’s a “preacher” of safe suntanning.




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and More

19 05 2009
  • E!Online is speculating whether Michelle Trachtenberg (Georgina, Gossip Girl) will be back next season and to what extent.
  • Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl) has officially signed on to star in Footloose.
  • The Boston Herald explores some of the things 90210 is doing wrong.
  • Jessica Stroup (Silver, 90210) talked about the finale and next season with E!Online.
  • Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) had a surprise birthday party courtesy of her husband, Dean McDermott.
  • There’s a video on YouTube on how to get Haley’s look from One Tree Hill.
  • Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) was burglarized recently and lost designer clothing and jewelry.
  • The CW picked up Beautiful Life, starring Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) for the fall.  The article says Gossip Girl spin-off is a possibility for midseason (as does this one) but Ausiello says its “officially dead.”
  • An NPR blog post says The O.C. “transformed the musical television landscape.”




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, 90210 and More

13 05 2009
  • Gossip Girl is included in The New York Times’ season finale guide.
  • There’s a Gossip Girl photo spread in the new issue of TV Guide Magazine.
  • Brittany Snow (80s Lily, Gossip Girl) did a short but sweet interview with The Feed.
  • Paste Magazine has a list of Gossip Girl’s “best musical moments.”
  • A new Gossip Girl novel by Cecily von Ziegesar will reportedly be published this fall.
  • Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) says on her blog that she’s close friends with Cullen Moss (Junk, One Tree Hill) and he’ll do a voiceover on one of her films.
  • Amy at the One Tree Hill Blog wrote a very heartfelt “OTH State of the Union.”
  • There are already hints out there on what new characters might appear next season on One Tree Hill.
  • Several 90210 actors are among the celebrities “going green.”
  • Olivia Wilde (Alex, The O.C.) says she still gets letters about her role as Marissa’s girlfriend.  Wilde also earned the top spot on Maxim’s Hot 100 list.
  • Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) is the ambassador for Jergens’ Glow in the Dark Campaign.