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Here we have a six-minute presentation of Gossip Girl coming next fall to the CW. It;s next season;s best hope for a new guilty pleasure teen soap opera-yet I;m not totally convinced. The show;s about hot, rich, sexed-up youngins; on Manhattan;s Upper East Side and it;s created by Josh Schwartz, the man who can be thanked then blamed for The O.C. Plus it will feature voiceovers from Kristen Bell, aka Veronica Mars, as the titular Gossip Girl, who;s a blogger. And we love bloggers! And Kristen Bell! But we;re not sure if we;re loving the dialogue and drama in this trailer. The UES setup and set of characters seems ripe for good soap-action, but I;d appreciate more O.C.-ish wit in the talky talk. (May I remind you all that, despite what it became, The O.C. was a great soap its first season.) Still, I;ll be giving it a try come the fall...