"Gossip Girl" Streaming Episode Outrage Ensues

Earlier this week I shared my thoughts on the CWamp8217s decision to pull down all streaming episodes of Gossip Girl in hopes of boosting ratings and purchased iTunes downloads As word spread about the experiment fans were outraged A recent Wired blog post calls the decision by Dawn Ostroff President of Entertainment for the CW one of the worst of her career amp8220Those hundreds of thousands of viewers who were watching directly on the CW39s site will either have to tune in or turn to P2P networks to download the show illegally And knowing how savvy kids are that very well may be what happens Doesn39t Ostroff know you can39t tell a teen what to doamp8221 writes Wiredamp8217s Sonia Zjawinski The CW Gossip Girl Lounge Community agrees A message board posting titled amp8220cwtvcom to Pull Streaming of New Gossip Girl Episodesamp8221 has been buzzing with angry fans amp8220I guess I39ll have to look for illegal online postings of the show which won39t benefit the CW in any way I think the network would be better off finding a way to monetize online airings than to cast away their loyal online viewers This tactic will not drive me to watch the show on TVamp8221 says one poster Another shared amp8220The CW likes to pretend it39s hip by having a show about blogging and teen sex but this shows that the people at CW are just as old and out of touch as anyone else CW you are a bunch of HYPOCRITESamp8221Following the seriesamp8217 returning episode on April 21st the CW announced that the 18 to 49 demographic was up 7 to 8 percent from its prestrike average But the episodeamp8217s viewers only increased 1 percent from the last episode prior to the writeramp8217s strike Itamp8217s also important to consider that the return of the series was highly publicized with a controversial ad campaign emblazoned with the tagline amp8220OMFGamp8221 As of Friday the episode is rated as the 1 top TV episode on iTunesNext week Michelle Trachtenberg joins the cast as Serenaamp8217s former partner in crime Georgina Sparks The episode will be filled with some exciting and unexpected plot twists but only some of many loyal fans can enjoy them when theyamp8217re still not streaming for free online

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