When we first saw this NY Mag headline, we were like, "What? What about Law and Order? Gossip Girl? Ugly Betty? Flight of the Conchords? TRL? The Tyra Banks Show?!! What's HAPPENING to our lives?!" Then we got a hold of ourselves and read the rest of the article...
For anyone who's ever had their car towed because of Gossip Girl, there's good news today: Thanks to New York's used-up tax credits for TV production, no fall pilots are being shot in the city this year (nineteen were shot here last year). (NY Magazine)
So we can all calm down. It seems it's largely new pilots that have been affected, but it does make us ponder what life would be like if this had happened two years ago, and the Gossip Girl pilot had never been shot. Life without Gossip Girl? Put that in you pipe...