Is There Still Sex in the City? Candice Bushnell's new upcoming book optioned for a possible TV series by Paramount TV that will focus on 50-something women.

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!"

Gregory David Roberts' best-selling and beloved novel, Shantaram, picked up as a drama series produced by Paramount TV.

Writer Gregory David Roberts' best-selling and beloved novel, Shantaram, has been picked up as a TV drama series and will be produced by Paramount TV.

Shantaram, published in 39 languages and with over 6 million copies sold so far, revolves around Lin, a writer-turned-bank robber who escapes from a maximum-security prison, becoming Australia’s Most Wanted Man, and who flees to the island city of Bombay, hoping to vanish in the multitudes.

Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in India among the people he lives with and takes care of as a “doctor” in a sprawling slum - from the colorful rogues and exiles who frequent Café Leopold to eventually the Bombay mob, where he finds work as a smuggler and passport forger.

Closest of all are Karla, the woman he loves, but who remains aloof and mysterious, and Prabaker, his guide, with a big smile and even bigger heart, who calls Lin "Shantaram", or “man of God’s peace.”

Now the best-selling novel set in Australia and India about love, forgiveness, courage and redemption will become a TV series and will be executive produced by Nicole Clemens, Steve Golin and Andrea Barron.

“We are excited to have been entrusted with bringing this epic novel to television together and to have the opportunity to explore Gregory David Roberts’ rich story that is so beloved by audiences worldwide,” says Steve Golin and Par TV president Amy Powell in a joint statement.

“I’m honoured and humbled in equal measure as a writer, and thrilled for the many readers who have hoped that Shantaram would become a vivid screen experience,” says Gregory David Roberts.

“Television is the perfect medium for the novel, and Steve Golin and Nicole Clemens at Anonymous Content are the perfect partners”.