BREAKING. The Carrie Diaries, a 'prequel' drama to Sex and the City - picked up as a regular new TV show.

The Carrie Diaries, a ''prequel'' and "young Sex and the City" with AnnaSophia Robb as a young Carrie Bradshaw has been picked up to become a full regular new TV series.

The CW network in America - after a pilot episode was filmed - has decided to make a full series of The Carrie Diaries.

The Carrie Diaries is set in in the 80's when Carrie Bradshaw - in high school in New York - asks her first questions about love, sex, relationships, friendship and the nature of family and work in Manhattan.

The Carrie Diaries is based on the prequel which was written by Candace Bushnell. The rest of the cast in this new soapy drama includes Austin Butler, Brendan Dooling, Freema Agyeman, Stefania Owen, Katie Findlay, Ellen Wong, Matt Letscher and Chloe Bridges.

FIRST LOOK. The 'new' (young) Carrie Bradshaw - AnnaSophia Robb in the pilot episode for the new drama The Carrie Diaries.

The first image has been released of The Carrie Diaries - a possible new TV drama if the show about the teenage years of the young Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City - gets picked up.

A pilot episode is currently being filmed in New York by Warner Bros Television also responsible for The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. The Carrie Diaries is based on Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City novel which became the iconic HBO series that South African viewers saw on SABC3.

The Carrie Diaries - if deemed good enough and a fit for the CW network in America, will be a prequel to the Sex and the City series and will be set in the 1980's when Carrie Bradshaw asks her first questions about love, sex, relationships, friendship and the nature of family and work.

Gossip Girl will wrap up with a shortened 6th season next year and the CW network is also looking at creating new hit shows. Warner Bros Television is also working on a pilot episode of a new possible new show entitled Green Arrow with Stephen Amell about the hooded green superhero.