Gossip Girl Star Joins The CW’s New Procedural Drama in a Completely New Role

Summary:

• Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl’s eccentric Blair Waldorf, is going to star in the new CW dramedy show Good Cop/Bad Cop.
• The series will feature siblings, working as detectives with their father.
• Meester, unlike her co-stars, had a lowkey career after Gossip Girl had concluded in 2012 and Good Cop/Bad Cop will mark her return to TV.

Gossip Girl, a CW teen drama show based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s novels of the same name, which let us peep privileged upper-class adolescents, living in Manhattan, and their sophisticated intrigues and love stories, became a starting point for many young actors. Released in 2007, it presented a decent number of rising stars of that time, including Leighton Meester, who portrayed the capricious and arrogant Blair Waldorf.

However, after the show’s conclusion, the actress didn’t appear much in both movies and series, having a far more lowkey acting career than her colleagues. Luckily, Meester is returning to the CW in a new procedural dramedy named Good Cop/Bad Cop.

The actress is going to star alongside Luke Cook (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), as they are going to portray Lou and Henry, siblings who comprise an awkward detective duo in a small Pacific Northwest police force. The future cast also includes Clancy Brown (Billions ), who is going to play their father and boss, a police chief, Big Hank.

Such a role is atypical of Meester’s modest filmography, even though further details of Good Cop/Bad Cop’s plot are yet unrevealed. Shooting of the series is starting this spring, with an intention to release it on the CW and on The Roku Channel in 2025.

While this much-awaited role of the actress is planned to be one of her biggest performances over the last decade, since Gossip Girl was finished in 2012, her co-stars have already taken part in other remarkable projects.

For instance, Blake Lively, who portrayed Serena van der Woodsen, starred in a number of successful movies (The Age of Adaline, A Simple Favor), while Penn Badgley, her onscreen partner, is now famous for his leading role in Netflix ’s psychological thriller You, which lasts for five seasons.

Meester’s last big role was for ABC’s Single Parents, which was poorly received and eventually canceled after two seasons in 2020. There is a hope the fate of Good Cop/Bad Cop will be drastically different and the actress will remain on big screens.