A follow-up series to the iconic Sex and the City is possibly coming to television that this time will focus on the (sex) lives of older women and look at the pressures faced by 50-something women in New York to try and maintain their youth and have it all.
The new book, Is There Still Sex in the City? from author Candace Bushnell is released by Grove Press on 6 August, and it has now been acquired by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content with plans to turn it into a TV series as well.
Candace Bushnell will be writing the pilot script for a possible series and serve as executive producer.
The original Sex and the City series ran from 1998 to 2004, followed by two films about the lives of Carrie Bradshaw and her friends - as well as a prequel series, The Carrie Diaries, about Carrie as a teenager in 2013.
Deadline reports that Is There Still Sex in the City? focuses on older women and is once again Candace Bushnell's further piercing, sly, and sometimes heartbreaking look at sex, dating, and friendship in New York City after 50.
The new exploration is set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, with the book that looks at love and life from all angles: marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all.
"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," says Candace Bushnell.
"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 Television in a statement says "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 50s and answer the question with, ‘Yes! There is more sex in the city!"
