Michael Ausiello, founder of the TV news website TVLine, is saying goodbye to the outlet he created.

Ausiello, who originally hails from Roselle Park, launched the site in 2011.

“I loathe goodbyes, so let’s try this,” Ausiello said in posts on Instagram and Facebook Monday night.

“Earlier this month, I said farewell to #TVLine, the site I founded nearly 15 years ago. TVLine is embarking on a new chapter, and so am I.”

TVLine mixes TV news with show recaps and reviews.

Ausiello first shared news of his departure from the website with Status’ Oliver Darcy.

TVLine, formerly the property of Penske Media, has been bought by Static Media.

“Though I am excited to begin my journey as a full-time creator and storyteller, I remain grateful to Jay Penske for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime in launching TVLine,” Ausiello said. “To the site’s new owners: Please take care of the most talented, hard-working and kindest team in all of entertainment journalism. And when #GilmoreGirls is revived again, I implore you to give them the unlimited resources they will need to cover it.”

(Ausiello, who made a cameo in both the original “Gilmore Girls” and the 2016 Netflix revival, insisted anyone quoting him keep that last line in.)

Ausiello, 53, wrote the 2017 memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words,” which became the 2022 movie “Spoiler Alert,” starring Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge.

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The book and film tell the story of Ausiello’s final year with his husband Kit Cowan and their life together before and after he was diagnosed with cancer. Cowan, a photographer, died in 2015. Ausiello served as an executive producer of the film, directed by Princeton’s Michael Showalter.

Ausiello, a writer and editor, worked for Entertainment Weekly before launching TVLine.

He shared Cowan’s sketches for the TVLine logo in his farewell to the website alongside photos from over the years with website staff and various TV stars — Keri Russell, Sayreville’s Dulé Hill, Kristen Bell of “Veronica Mars” and yes, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel of “Gilmore Girls.”

As for Ausellio’s new role as a “full-time creator and storyteller,” he also created “Beverly Hills,” billed as “a pretend soap opera performed by real actors.”

Ausiello wrote 517 episodes of the soap opera when he was 13 and still living in New Jersey.

He has been staging readings of the episodes in Los Angeles with actors including Edi Patterson, Timothy Simons, Tony Hale, Lamorne Morris, Andy Richter, Kristen Johnson, Paul Scheer, Caitlin Reilly and more.

“Beverly Hills” will make its New York debut Sept. 8 at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with proceeds going to the Ali Forney Center.

The cast for the sold-out show includes Parsons, “Saturday Night Live” alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer, current “SNL” star Bowen Yang, Tony winners Renée Elise Goldsberry, Michael Urie (“Shrinking”) and Mitch Silpa.

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