When is Gossip Girl leaving US Netflix?

Teen drama has found new audience on Netflix

HBO Max is rebooting ‘Gossip Girl’ and taking the original seasons with it (Rex Features)

Gossip Girl fans in the United States won’t be able to watch the show on Netflix in 2021.

The teen drama about rich teenagers in New York first aired from 2007 to 2012, but has since been rediscovered by a new generation thanks to the streaming service.

However, with a reboot of the show heading to HBO’s new platform HBO Max in 2021, the original seasons are leaving Netflix on 31 December.

From that date, viewers will have to subscribe to HBO Max to watch the show in the US.

The original Gossip Girl starred Blake Lively as it girl Serena van der Woodsen, while Leighton Meester played her best friend Blair Waldorf. 

Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Taylor Momsen also starred.

The new series, which has been described as a continuation of the original show rather than a direct reboot, will be set eight years after it ended with the identity of Gossip Girl being revealed.

Viewers will be introduced to a new group of private school students who will also come under the mysterious blogger’s radar – but this time in the age of social media.

A description of the forthcoming reboot provided by WarnerMedia reads: ”Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.

“The prestige series will address just how much social media – and the landscape of New York itself – has changed in the intervening years.”