Trivia for
"Gossip Girl" Pilot (2007)

• {Pilot (#1.1)}
  
  
• Was originally pitched as a feature with Lindsay Lohan as Blair Waldorf. When that fell through, its backers (who had the rights to the stories) approached Josh Schwartz about turning it into a series.
  
  
• This is the only episode so far in the series that Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald ride a public bus to school, unlike the usual private limo ride.
  
  
• Unlike the first book, which starts out with Blair talking to Isabel and Kati, the episode starts with Serena on the train back home.
  
  
• The Constance Billard School for Girls is based on The Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Cecily von Ziegesar, the author of the books which the series is based on, attended this prestigious school.
  
  

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