Tuesday 16 August 2011

CW Eyes 'Sex & The City' Prequel Series Shepherded By 'Gossip Girl' Producers

Nellie Andreevapost thumbnail EXCLUSIVE: With their sharp fashion sense and busy social life in Manhattan, the young ladies from the CW's Gossip Girl often evoke Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. Now a teen version of Bradshaw herself may be joining the CW's lineup. I hear that the CW has emerged as the leading candidate for The Carrie Diaries, a TV series project based on Sex and the City author Candice Bushnell's recent book about Bradshaw's high school years. There are no deals in place, and talks are in preliminary stages, but I hear that Warner Bros TV would produce and Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are being courted to shepherd the project through their Warner Bros TV-based Fake Empire banner. Former Sex and the City writer/producer Amy Harris, who is writing for Gossip Girl this season, will likely pen the adaptation. Because it previously adapted Bushnell's Sex and the City into a hugely popular series, HBO has the rights to The Carrie Diaries, a young-adult novel that chronicles Carrie's senior year of high school in a small New England town. But since the book is much younger skewing than HBO's audience, the pay ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/sex-the-city-book-prequel-the-carrie-diaries-eyed-as-tv-series-for-the-cw-shepherded-by-gossip-girl-producers/

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