Hollywood Company Readies Chinese Version of Gossip Girl

Metan Development Group, the LA company guided by E! Entainment co-founder Larry Namer (pictured), is getting ready to take another risk in the Chinese marketplace. Per an article in Ad Age by Normandy Madden, the plan is to introduce a Shanghai-set version of CW’s The Gossip Girl in the summer of 2012.

There are a couple of potential problems here. One, not all U.S. show remakes are hits; for every Ugly Betty to Ugly Wudi success, there is a High School Musical becomes Musical Youth failure.

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