Article: COMMENTARY: 'The O.C.' puts 'Gossip Girl' to shame

Alex Ewing
University Wire
11-20-2007
(The Tartan) (U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH -- The premise: A new face in town shows up, causes trouble, and tries to make good. This is Gossip Girl, one of the fall's few new shows touted for its originality in a season encouraging relatively traditional programming.

It's odd, considering that Gossip Girl is so completely unoriginal. In fact, the basic description sounds a lot like another teen show from five years ago, The O.C. Canceled last February, the California teen drama, created by writer-producer Josh Schwartz, followed the relationship between Chino transplant Ryan and his foster family, the Cohens, in the Orange County world of excess.

It should come as ...

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