Good-bye Gossip Girls, but there’s still sex in the CW city

Leighton Meester as Blair in “Gossip Girl,” final season ahead.
Leighton Meester as Blair in “Gossip Girl,” final season ahead.
Posted: May 19, 2012

XOXO, “Gossip Girl.”

The CW’s eye-candy drama about the insanely overdressed offspring of the rich and infamous will end its sixth season run this fall, but worry not, fashion fans: “The Carrie Diaries” is ready to take its place at 9 p.m. Mondays, beginning in January.

AnnaSophia Robb (“Race to Witch Mountain”) will play “Sex and the City’s” Carrie Bradshaw way back in the ’80s, before she could afford a closet full of Manolos (and also before she grew up to look more like “Square Pegs” veteran Sarah Jessica Parker than just another CW-perfect teen). Newly motherless and living in Connecticut, she becomes a 16-year-old intern at a Manhattan law firm and takes her first bite out of the Big Apple.

Other new dramas, to be rolled out beginning in early October, include:

“Emily Owens, M.D.,” starring Mamie Gummer, who last played a doctor on “Off the Map,” as a newly minted physician who discovers that hospitals are just like high school. (Did she never see “Grey’s Anatomy”?) The CW’s pairing that with another young-woman-doctor show, “Hart of Dixie,” on Tuesdays.

“Arrow,” a comic-book adaptation from Greg Berlanti (“Eli Stone”) starring Steven Amell as Oliver Queen, a billionaire playboy who undergoes some significant, comic-book-like changes after being shipwrecked and stranded on an island. It will be partnered, naturally, with “Supernatural” on Wednesdays.

“Beauty and the Beast,” starring “Smallville’s” Kristin Kreuk as a homicide detective who has a complicated relationship with a doctor (Jay Ryan) who saved her from killers as a child but who, like the Hulk, can’t afford to get angry, lest Bad Things Happen. That will follow “The Vampire Diaries” on Thursdays.

Also for midseason but not yet scheduled: “Cult,” a show about an investigative reporter who’s forced to take his brother’s paranoid obsession with a TV show seriously after his brother disappears and the show itself seems somehow to be involved. (Maybe this is why networks have lately seen their viewers disappearing?)

Returning: “90210,” “Gossip Girl” (final, shortened season), “Hart of Dixie,” “Supernatural,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Nikita,” “Supernatural,” and “America’s Next Top Model.”

Outta here: “One Tree Hill,” “Ringer,” “The Secret Circle,” “L.A. Complex” and “H8Rs.” n

Contact Ellen Gray at 215-854-5950 or graye@phillynews.comor follow on Twitter @elgray.

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