Josh Schwartz Dishes on Gossip Girl Spinoff, Rockville and Chuck

Like many parents-to-be, Josh Schwartz is keeping baby names to himself, thankyouverymuch.

"I don't want to jinx it," the über-producer tells me. "And I don't want to be presumptuous that it's actually going to happen."

He's talking about that much-buzzed-about Gossip Girl spinoff he's been laboring over, which, for the record, is not named Lily, despite widespread reports, and at this point is only one upcoming episode of the original GG. But Josh does have a name for another new project he'll gladly share: Rockville, a web-only series about a rock club that just launched at thewb.com. (You can see the first few episodes there now.)

So what's the scoop on Rockville? The gossip on not-Lily? The future of Chuck? And why is Josh hoping someone will, um, "Tonya Harding" a certain Dancing With the Stars hopeful? Read on for the dish...

How did Rockville come about?
During the strike I was approached about this WB.com website that they were launching and they needed original programming. Years and years ago I had written a pilot, pre-O.C., about the music business called Wall to Wall Records that we shopped but never made it on the air. I've always wanted to do something about the world of music. I spent a lot of my twenties, pre-O.C. especially, at music venues; at Spaceland and Troubadour in L.A. seeing lots and lots of shows, and now I'm married and 32. I sort of look back on that with a large degree of nostalgia, so being able to re-create that time for characters that are just going through that is something that was immensely appealing to me.

And the cast? Ryan Hansen of Veronica Mars is pretty funny in this.
He's hilarious. I actually just cast him in the Gossip Girl spinoff after working with him in this. The whole cast is really great.

What's the skinny on the Gossip spinoff?
We just finished shooting [the Gossip Girl episode that will serve as the spinoff pilot] and I'm really excited. I mean, you know obviously it's going to be out of my hands at a certain point in terms of whether it can move forward, but Brittany Snow is so good.

From e!online