According to Nikki Finke’s LA Weekly column, the CW has put the kibosh on the Gossip Girl spinoff series that would have followed the adventures of Serena van der Woodsen’s mother Lily (played by Brittany Snow) romancing rock stars back in her wild groupie youth in Los Angeles, circa 1980s. The flashback episode of GG airing Monday was to have been a kind of preview of things to come that now won’t. “Even though I heard [Fox entertainment president] Peter Roth loved its yesteryear vibe, the show went from hot, to lukewarm, to ‘fading but wouldn’t count out,’ to now dead, according to my insiders,” says Finke.