A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

YOU KNOW YOU LOVE THIS: While we don't have a winner in the "first show to be cancelled" sweepstakes yet (though Journeyman and Cane are making strong bids, with Big Shots only a little behind because it airs later in the week), we do have a winner in the "first show to get a full season order" sweepstakes. That winner? No, not the high rated but awful Big Bang Theory, or any of ABC's much-hyped newbies (though I expect Private Practice to get a back 9 in the next couple of weeks), or Bionic (But Still Really Boring) Woman (which, dollars to donuts, is moving to Mondays in a few weeks), but the CW's addictive teen soap Gossip Girl, which, though it's barely a blip on the radar of overall ratings, apparently does very well among younger women. So, yes, we will continue to have excuses to type "Serena Van Der Woodsen" for the whole year, and watch Leighton Meester show a strong ability to give good bitch despite an inability to actually act.