Top 5 Beauty Looks From the Gossip Girl Spinoff

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Ok…only 1 hour until the Gossip Girl episode “Valley Girls” air tonight!!  I’m so excited, I can’t stand it!  So to pass the time, lets explore some beauty looks from the retro spinoff provide courtesy of BellaSugar.

Tonight on a very special episode of Gossip Girl.  We get our first glimpse of what could end up being an ’80s spinoff of our favorite guilty pleasure. If the show gets picked up, be sure to expect fun fashion and beauty looks on the likes of Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter. Join me on this sneak peek of what’s to come.

View the Slideshow HERE.

Brittany Snow on Lily Rhodes - Spoiler TV Video

Here’s an awesome video courtesy of Spoiler TV of Brittany Snow explaining her character and what tonight’s Gossip Girl Episode “Valley Girls” and the spinoff pilot is all about.

Gossip Girl Spinoff Tonight!!! What To Expect - Stephanie Savage Dishes

Here’s a Q&A from Zap2it.  Stephenie Savage gives us the inside scoop on what to expect in tonight episode of Gossip Girl “Valley Girls”!  Also, as I reported before, all the buzz going around that the spinoff is dead was untrue.  CW sources have confirmed that is proposterous and they would know anything until somtime next week.  So keep your fingers crossed!!!

Lily van der Woodsen. During tonight’s “Gossip Girl” hour, we’re flashing back more than 25 years to her teenage days, and if all goes well, those flashbacks will morph into a whole new spin off series this September. Sounds exciting to me, so I decided to bother executive producer Stephanie Savage with a bunch of questions about it…

80s. Love it. Already on board. But exactly what year will things begin, will we know?
SS: We’re going to try and be somewhat vague about that, just so we don’t get trapped in nitpicking, but we’re starting somewhere around 1983. The idea is that it’s Lily in high school, so we wanted to give it a nice long run before it turns into the 90s when she’d be meeting Rufus.

The “Gossip Girl” episode during which Lily made a list of all the men she’d slept with… should we have been pausing our DVRs and looking closely at that list? Any of those guys going to pop up should the show go to series in the fall?
SS: Well the names on that list were mostly our crew members’ names, and that’s largely just for legal reasons. A lot of the guys that would have been on Lily’s list, that are on the list in her mind, are guys that are older and have families now and they don’t necessarily want to be associated with Lily’s past. But we’ll still be telling those stories, definitely.

How would you describe the tone of the show? Comparable to “Fast Times”? “Valley Girl”? “Less Than Zero”?
SS: It’s kind of, I think, a combination of all of those. We definitely didn’t want it to be joke-y and campy and we worked really hard, and I think succeeded — knock on wood — in terms of the fashion and the music and the production design, to make something that felt fun, definitely, but also grounded in a reality where we could tell dramatic stories. So you’re not, like, having an emotional scene where you’re [distracted by] their makeup or their ponytail or their shoulder pads. We wanted to keep the show aspirational, in terms of the clothes and the music. Young women who watch “Gossip Girl” to get ideas about fashion will also want to watch this to get ideas about fashion. They’ll be slightly different ideas, but it still feels aspirational and like something that you’d want to be a part of, rather than make fun of. And we hope we can turn people on to music that they don’t know, or movies or TV shows that they may have heard of, but never really watched.

Not going to lie, I’m psyched for the fashion.
SS: When we were shooting it, we were looking around at each other going, Oh my God, my hair is so flat, I have no volume, my clothes are really boring, I have to work on my accessories.

And what about the music, will it be more mainstream 80s or edgy…?
SS: Well both, we definitely have different worlds represented in our show. The Los Angeles punk scene is represented. And then there are the more obvious KROQ radio hits. Jumping between these two worlds is important to the show. Lily is living with her sister in the Valley and kind of hanging out in the punk rock scene, but she and her sister come from a wealthy family and their parents are more aligned with a Pacific Palisades/Beverly Hills/Malibu, “Less Than Zero” world. So her struggle, kind of as it is in “Gossip Girl,” is to try and figure out what kind of world she wants to be in.

Will the music include songs that were actually recorded and released in the 80s or will you be using new bands that have kind of an 80s sound and feel to them?
SS: The music that the characters are listening to will be true to the period. But we definitely want to use newer music that has an 80s feel to it as well. And we also want to have new bands who can kind of do cameos as a period band.

Anyone you have your eye on?
SS: Well, in our first pilot episode that is going to air as part of “Gossip Girl” [tonight], we have “No Doubt.” They are playing “Snowed Out,” their fictional 80s counterparts!

Love it. Last thing, I have to know, if the show gets picked up, are you really going to cast actors to play the 80s versions of “O.C.” characters Jimmy Cooper and Kirsten Nichol?
SS: I don’t think it would be a huge part of the show, but it’s always been in the back of our minds that Lily’s character comes from California and, coming from Montecito, she may have crossed paths with our Newport Beach characters. They grew up around the same time. And it’s something we’re able to do because Warner Brothers and [executive producer] Josh [Schwartz] control those characters, so we can bring them to life if we chose to do that. It could be a lot of fun…

Thoughts? Will you be watching tonight?

Is the Gossip Girl Spinoff Dead? Not So Fast Says WWK

Yes, all day yesterday, there were all kinds of stories on the web about the Gossip Girl Spinoff being “dead”. I refrained from posting anything, because I wanted to be sure that this was the case. Because if the spinoff is indeed, “dead” that means it’s the end of the road for LilyTheSeries.com as well, of course. Well thank goodness, I waited because this morning Kristin over at E!Online posted an exclusive. Check it out:

Attention Brittany Snow fans: Don’t panic. The news is not as dire as you’ve heard.

Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that the Gossip Girl spinoff (which we lovingly but inaccurately call Lily) is “dead” at the CW. Could it be true? Could Lily already be off the list of contenders for CW’s fall season before we’ve seen the backdoor pilot (sneak peeks notwithstanding)?

The official word from the CW is “no comment,” but here’s what insiders are telling us right now:

“Nothing is dead,” says a source close to the network. What’s that mean? That means the CW programmers are still making their decisions, and everything, including Lily, is still under consideration.

The problem for all of the CW pilots this year is that with Privileged likely to get a pickup (yay for Rina Mimoun!), there are only three spots left in the CW’s 10-hours-a-week schedule for new shows. (Gossip Girl, 90210, Supernatural, Smallville, One Tree Hill and America’s Next Top Model have all already been ordered for next year.) Throw in the new Melrose Place (which seems to be a virtual certainty), and you’ve got just two holes left to fill.

Lily may indeed be fighting for one of those two slots against the likes of Mischa Barton’s The Beautiful Life and Vampire Diaries, but it’s not out of the running yet.

So what’s the good news for us fans of Snow and her onscreen sister Krysten Ritter? Lily has a lot going for it, including that crackerjack cast, the publicity that comes with anything associated with Gossip Girl, and the nearly irresistible idea of pairing it with the mothership on Monday nights for a block of Josh Schwartz/Stephanie Savage-produced goodness.

Do you want a Gossip Girl spinoff? Or are you waiting until you see what they do with the Lily flashback on Monday’s episode, airing 8 p.m. on the CW?

Spoiler Alert!! Gossip Girl - Valley Girls - 4 Sneak Peeks From WWK

**Major Spoiler Alerts!!!**

Here are some really great quality Sneak Peeks courtesy of Watch With Kristin!!  Yay!  I’m pumped!  The last two are clearly just videos of filming, but still very cool!

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