Sex and the City is returning to TV (kinda)! According to Deadline. HBO’s beloved comedy about four female friends navigating sex and love in New York City has a follow-up series in the works, based on Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s upcoming book Is There Still Sex in the City?
The series will reportedly focus on the sex lives of characters over the age of 50. Bushnell laid out some of the challenges its older female characters will face:
“It didn’t used to be this way. At one time, 50-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.
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 50- and 60-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.”
Bushnell’s book will be released August 6, 2019. It reportedly takes place on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and at a countryside location known as The Village. Deadline says the book “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.”
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content own the rights to the TV adaptation of Bushnell’s book. Bushnell is writing the pilot and will serve as an executive producer on the show.
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The original HBO series, which ran from 1998 to 2004 and spawned two films in 2008 and 2010, was beloved by many gay and lesbian fans for its sexy, humorous, matter-of-fact depiction of women’s friendships and sex lives. It’s unlikely that any of the original Sex and the City cast will star in the follow-up seeing as they couldn’t get their act together to create a third film.
The show’s follow-up series would be one of the few TV shows to actually deal with older adults as main characters. Netflix‘s Grace and Frankie concentrates on its older characters’ love lives, and so does NBC’s revival of Will & Grace. The beloved sitcom The Golden Girls occasionally dealt with the sexual and romantic lives of its elderly female ensemble.
A newer show called Silver Foxes (currently in development) seeks to portray the personal lives of older gay men. The comedic web series West 40s, about a group of gay friends navigating their 40s in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, does as well. Its first episode went online July 2018.
DCguy
Translation: Republicans have decimated pensions, worker rights, and company loyalty. So people now have to work later.
GlobeTrotter
Why does everything have to be “revived” nowadays? Just leave a good thing be!
Sex and the City was great in its day, it came out at the right place at the right time. It resonated with a specific people during a specific time in our cultural history. Those days however, are now long gone and deserve to be allowed to rest in peace.
Same mistake with Will & Grace and all the other revived TV series. These shows served a specific purpose for a specific moment in time. Society has moved on and the nowadays generation has an entirely different agenda…
Vince
It’s not the same though. The original had them in their mid thirties. These women are 50 + now.
Hopefully the originals will make some cameos in them.
iamru2
The original could probably never be made today. There would be outraged SJW types foaming at the mouth every other storyline!
DCguy
Awww, aren’t you precious?
Notice how whenever the right wing troll accounts want to play victim they can’t ever give details?
So please, iamru2…..fee free to tell us exactly WHICH plots these evil SJW types wouldn’t allow through. Because we all know the real issue is that Republicans would NEVER permit a show about a bunch of older single women having sex and not having men be the leads would never fly for the right wingers.
iamru2
You always come across as unhinged and blinded by your misguided rage so no I’m not going to attempt to engage with you in the manner you are demanding! Cheers 😉
DCguy
@iamru2
Awww, how adorable. See here we have two trolling techniques used by false right wing trolls.
1. Make a vague accusation claiming that “Liberals” or “Democrats” or “SJWs” would do something bad, without any details or evidence.
2. If they get called out, since they can’t back their original comment up, they desperately try to claim that pointing out their original comment was false is “Angry”.
In other words, they want to be able to lie, then attack anybody who points out that they lied.
Please tell the RNC to send smarter trolls.