TV BUZZ – Last season the CW pissed off journalists and parents by using racy ads to promote “Gossip Girl.” Now the CW is using quotes from those critics in new ads. The posters superimpose critical phrases like, “mind-blowingly inappropriate” over images from the show. At this point Americans are sure to discover that these over-privileged fictional teenagers are having sex. Can we handle it?

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The Best Links:

1. Gossip Girl Sexes Up It Some More
2. Other Equally Inappropriate Gossip Girl Ads

CELEBRITY BUZZ – Madchen Amick of Twin Peaks joins the cast of Gossip Girl as cougar “Catherine Mason”. The 37-year old takes the roll of a Manhattan Mrs. Robinson to Nate. Catch her on the new season of Gossip Girl premiering September 1st.

The Best Links:

1. Madchen Amick Joins “Gossip Girl” As a Couger
2. Madchen Amick Bio With Some Pics
3. Madchen Amick’s Awful Plastic Surgery
4. Madchen Amick’s Website
5. Madchen Amick On IMDB
6. Cougar Hits Gossip Girl

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TV BUZZ – A tumblr blog that collects fictional lost artifacts from the infamous show, like IMs and handwritten love letters. Here’s a must-read if you’re a Gossip Girl addict. Sometimes fictional characters get a little too real, though, like the times I used to have creepy dreams that I was Mulder and Scully’s third wheel.

The Best Links:

1. all the sad young gossip girls - home
2. To the Creator of This Blog: Please Show Your Face
3. This Should Tide You Over til The Next Season

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TV BUZZ – Despite bringing you Gossip Girl, the teen network is having ratings woes. The Wall Street Journal says the network may disappear by next year if it can’t figure out a way to lure viewers. Here’s one idea: Do better!

The Best Links:

1. Ratings Down 22 Percent, That’s Bad Gossip
2. Take Pity on the Poor, Lonely CW
3. Your TiVO Makes Baby Jesus Cry

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Actress, jewelry designer and now blogger, Trachtenberg’s star is on the rise. She’s mean and possibly psychotic on Gossip Girl, but her aw-shucks blog posts for Cosmopolitan are sickly sweet.

The Best Links:

1. Michelle Trachtenberg’s Inaugural Blog Post
2. Second Post on Cosmopolitan.com
3. Michelle Trachtenberg Blogs, Shills
4. Michelle Trachtenberg and Her Jewelry Line
5. Michelle Trachtenberg’s Career Thus Far
6. Breaking Down a Michelle Trachtenberg Outfit

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TV BUZZ – The ad campaign for the return of the CW teen show is raising eyebrows. OMFG! Teens having sex!

The Best Links:

1. “OMFG” is Kinda Weak, Eveb For the Jr. High Set, Non?
2. The “Gossip Girl” OMFG Slideshow Trailer
3. OMFG Cexy!
4. More Exploitative Than Ground-Breaking
5. Them Ads? They For Reals
6. Are the New Gossip Girl Ads Too Racy?

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TV BUZZ – The creator of Veronica Mars is reportedly helming a spinoff of the ’90s teen soap for The CW. If there is, in fact, a God, Brenda and Dylan will totes be running the Peach Pit, dispensing advice and milkshakes as needed to some very troubled teenagers.

The Best Links:

1. Rich Kids Are Back
2. Watch the new 90210 Teaser
3. Shannon Doherty Joining the New 90210?
4. Groundbreaking? Not So Much…
5. Nah nah nah nah…nah nah nah nah…*CLANK CLANK*…
6. “If This Show Ends Up Being About Andrea Zuckerman and Jessie Vasquez’s Love Child, I’m Gonna Develop My Own Drug Problem.”
7. Another Zuckerman-Vasquez Offspring Pitch
8. A Fan Of “The Brenda Years” Weighs In

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CULTURE BUZZ – Western money culture is producing an epidemic of horrible kids, although the specter of Paris Hilton is making some parents clamp down. There’s been a lot of talk during the current election cycle about leaving a better America for the next generation, but if the next generation is just going to behave like the characters on Gossip Girl, maybe we should think again.

The Best Links:

1. How Can America’s Rich Teach Their Children the Value of a Dollar?
2. Family Fortunes: Multimillionaires Are Increasingly Choosing Not To Pass Down Their Wealth
3. Spoiled Kids? Join the Club, As Parents Confess
4. Are You Raising a Douchebag?
5. The Extreme New York Childhood of Alex Goldberg
6. The War on “No”: Is “Child-Centered” Parenting Producing a Generation of Brats?
7. Are Gen-X Parents Raising Spoiled Brats?

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