A *Sex and the City* Follow-Up Is Coming to TV
Stop what you’re doing, people: Sex and the City is coming back to television.
This news comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, which confirmed Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Is There Still Sex in the City?, the follow-up book from original SATC author Candace Bushnell. The book is slated for an August release and explores sex, dating, and friendships for women over 50. Paramount TV’s series will, presumably, come after that.
But here’s the catch: This new show isn’t necessarily a direct sequel to the Sarah Jessica Parker hijinks you watched on HBO for six years. Those hoping for a Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Miranda reunion will probably be disappointed. Granted, no casting information has been announced, so anything’s possible—but I’m not holding my breath. What we’ll most likely get is a story with dynamic new female characters figuring out their romantic lives after 50.
“It didn’t used to be this way. At one time, fifty-something meant the beginning of retirement—working less, spending more time on your hobbies, with your friends, who like you were sliding into a more leisurely lifestyle,” Bushnell said Wednesday (March 27) in a statement. “In short, retirement-age folks weren’t meant to do much of anything but get older and a bit heavier. They weren’t expected to exercise, start new business ventures, move to a different state, have casual sex with strangers, and start all over again. But this is exactly what the lives of a lot of fifty- and sixty-something women look like today, and I’m thrilled to be reflecting the rich, complexity of their reality on the page and now on the screen.”
Nicole Clemens, president of Paramount TV, added, “The original Sex and the City book and series served as a groundbreaking touchstone for an entire generation of women, myself included. We’re thrilled to be able to continue that conversation from the underrepresented point of view of women in their fifties and answer the question with, ‘Yes! There is more sex in the city!'”
THR reports Bushnell will write the pilot episode and serve as an executive producer on the series. A release date hasn’t been announced yet, but I’m already mixing a cosmo in anticipation.