On Monday night, the CW will air the highly anticipated (or is that just me) season finale for the first season of Gossip Girl, a much talked about show (called the Greatest Teen Drama of All-Time by New York magazine) based upon a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar. Since this show is often discussed around the office and with friends, I was curious to see the show’s website traffic. As one would expect, the premiere on Sept 19th caused the traffic to ramp up pretty quickly, resulting in the 2nd highest week for the website in terms of the market share of visits. The actual peak (to date) was the week ending October 20, 2007 as the show grew in popularity.

Los Angeles - The CW has decided to stop streaming free episodes of "Gossip Girl" from its website, in a test to see whether the popular streams were eating into the show's TV audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Santa Monica, Calif. - AOL's (NYSE: TW) Userplane social application platform division said on Tuesday that it has signed deals to power communication and community tools for network and cable TV partners The CW, Channel 4, Fuel TV and IFC. Userplane will provide the broadcasters' websites with customizable tools such as live instant messaging and chat.

Los Angeles - In the first reported cancellation of a new fall TV show, The CW has pulled "Online Nation," a show that featured user-generated video clips, TVWeek.com reported. The last episode of the show, which will be replaced by reruns of CW's "Aliens," received a 0.2 rating in the 18-49 age demographic.

Los Angeles - The CW network announced on Friday that it will offer the premiere episodes of several of its fall series for free on iTunes, which will be made available for a week following their broadcast debuts. Included are new series "Aliens in America" and "Life Is Wild," as well as returning shows "Everybody Hates Chris," "Girlfriends" and "Supernatural." Following the premieres, The CW will also sell subsequent episodes on iTunes for $1.99 each.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo has partnered with The CW to stream the premiere episodes of the network's new series "Aliens in America" and "Life is Wild" for free, sans commercials, before their broadcast debuts. "Aliens in America" was posted on Yahoo TV today, and airs on Oct. 1, while "Life is Wild" will be posted on Sept. 29, ahead of its Oct. 7 premiere on The CW.

Los Angeles - The pilot episodes from several upcoming TV series -- including NBC's "Bionic Woman" and Fox's "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" -- have been leaked onto Internet file-sharing networks, TVWeek.com reported.