We still haven’t gotten around to catching up with episodes one through whatever-episode-is-on-now of Gossip Girl. It has reached that watershed point where we need to start caring about it, not watch it but keep it on notice or completely ignore it.

Option three is going to be difficult, so it’s down to options one and two.

Either way, Gossip Girl has some new gossip surrounding the next season: it will be a 24-episode extended season to make up for the episodes lost during the Writer’s Strike.

Not that it’s official. Nothing is official until next week’s upfronts, where our various prophecies will come true.