1. Gossip Girl: The Biggest Show No One Is Watching

When we commute to work, we see Blake Lively plastered to the side of the bus, enraptured by that "bosom kiss" the Parents Television Council is protesting. When we read TMZ, Chace Crawford is always there showmancing the latest country singer or boy-band has-been. And now we can't even go see our beloved Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants sequel without a van der Woodsen getting all up in our grill? For a show that regularly attracts fewer viewers than TBS' House of Payne, Gossip Girl has certainly captured the public imagination. "These kids live in their own self-created fishbowl with the Gossip Girl blogging about them," says the show's executive producer, Josh Schwartz. "And that speaks to how celebrity gossip and Internet culture affects our lives." So Blair and Serena can bring on every eating disorder and pregnancy scare in the book — it won't tear us away from the real drama: Are Lively and Penn Badgley really dating? Are Leighton Meester and Lively catfighting? WTF is going on with Crawford's hair? And is this sucker really going to change television, or is it just the next O.C.?