The third season of the American teen drama television series Gossip Girl premiered on The CW on September 14, 2009, and concluded on May 17, 2010, consisting of 22 episodes. Based on the novel series of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, the series was developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. The season premiered with 2.55 million viewers and a 1.4 Adults 18-49 rating, up 14% in viewers from its season two finale.
Overall, the season attracted an average of 2.02 million viewers tuning in each week, with a 1.1 rating in Adult 18–49.
Synopsis
High school is officially over for Blair, Serena, Nate, Chuck, Dan, and Vanessa as they leave their carefree days behind and start the new chapter in their life: Adulthood. Still at Constance for their junior year, Jenny and Eric's friendship is tested as Jenny starts her duties as the new Queen of Constance. Serena and Blair's friendship also gets tested as they grow and mature. Chuck and Blair are finally in a committed relationship but start question if it will work without any mind games. Serena and Nate's friendship begins to grow closer, and the same goes for Dan and Vanessa.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen
Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey
Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald
Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey
Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass
Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams
Kelly Rutherford as Lily Humphrey
Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey
Kristen Bell as Gossip Girl (uncredited)
Recurring cast
Joanna Garcia as Bree Buckley
Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
Chris Riggi as Scott Rosson
Sebastian Stan as Carter Baizen
Aaron Schwartz as Vanya
Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks
Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota Kishlovsky
Hilary Duff as Olivia Burke
Matt Doyle as Jonathan Whitney
Holley Fain as Maureen van der Bilt
Aaron Tveit as Tripp van der Bilt III
Kevin Zegers as Damien Dalgaard
Margaret Colin as Eleanor Waldorf
Caroline Lagerfelt as CeCe Rhodes
Laura Harring as Elizabeth Fisher
Sherri Saum as Holland Kemble
Desmond Harrington as Jack Bass
Wallace Shawn as Cyrus Rose
Guest cast
Ashley Hinshaw as herself
Tyra Banks as Ursula Nyquist
Sonic Youth as themselves
Gina Torres as Gabriela Abrams
Albert Hammond Jr. as himself
Lady Gaga as herself
Robert John Burke as Bart Bass
Willa Holland as Agnes Andrews
Luke Kleintank as Elliot Leichter
William Baldwin as William van der Woodsen
Episodes
Ratings
The third season premiere was watched by 2.55 million viewers, with a rating and share of 1.7/3 in households and 1.4/3 in the 18-49 demographic.
In the Live + DVR Ratings the series has a larger increase. The third episode of the season, "The Lost Boy", in its original airing, it was watched by 2.36 million viewers, but with the DVR Ratings the episode scores nearly 3.0 million viewers. The fifth episode was watched by 2.36 million viewers on live broadcast, but with the DVR ratings, the episode scores 2.94 million viewers.
This is the least-watched season to date, with an average of 2.02 million viewers tuning in each week and a 1.1 rating in Adult 18–49, which was down 18% in total viewers from the previous season's 2.48 million, but up 0.2 in Adults 18-49.