Thursday 24 April 2008 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Dan (Penn Badgley) makes elaborate plans to impress Serena (Blake Lively) on their first official date. On the same night, Jenny (Taylor Momsen) is invited to the infamous Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) sleepover and finds herself in a high-stakes game of Truth or Dare. Meanwhile, when Lily (Kelly Rutherford) discovers that Eric (Connor Paolo) is missing from his treatment center, she seeks help from her ex-boyfriend, Rufus (Matthew Settle).

Gossip Girl is based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and executive produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

ITV2 channel controller Zai Bennett says: “I’m delighted that we’ve secured this brand defining acquisition for ITV2”.

Dawn Ostroff from the CW Television Network, America’s fifth broadcast network and the only network targeting young adults between 18-34, adds: “People everywhere are talking about Gossip Girl and we believe this show will continue to build. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have created an incredibly heightened-reality world that viewers are locking into.”

Gossip Girl is a College Hill Pictures, Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Paramount Television Inc for ITV2.