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Television Premiere Travel: Relive High School With "Gossip Girl"

Coming this fall: Jaunted gets the dirt on your favorite shows and the cities where they take place. Put down your remote and pick up your keyboard, because after tuning in to these series premieres, we'll have all the dish.

Move over "Mean Girls." Meaner girls have come to New York City, where the new CW show "Gossip Girl" takes place. Based on the best-selling young adult novels, this East Coast "O.C.," debuting tomorrow night, follows the adventures of a clique of private school kids for whom all the city's doors are open.

Queen Bee Blair (newcomer Leighton Meester) is looking forward to her last year in high school until her former best friend Serena (Blake Lively, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants") returns to their all-girls school after a year's disappearance. Not only has she set her sights on Blair's reputation, she may be trying to steal her stoner boyfriend (Chace Crawford). Meanwhile, a brother and sister from the wrong borough (that's any borough besides Manhattan) try to navigate their tony high schools, mixing with the rich and irresponsible.

Unlike other Manhattan-based shows like "Ugly Betty," "Gossip Girl" actually shoots in New York. The crew has been spotted around Madison Square Park, and a real-life high school in Brooklyn Heights stands in for the exterior of the girls' school. The buzz on this show--which you can get for free on iTunes--is that it could be the young network's first major original hit because of its preteen fan base. That is, if Mom and Dad will let their tweens watch kids who drink, smoke, talk about sex and get away with it all.

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