‘Sex and the City’ Follow-Up TV Series in the Works: Report

Sex and the City is getting a follow-up series that examines life and dating in New York City after 50, Deadline reports. After a competitive bid, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content acquired the rights to Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s upcoming book Is There Still Sex in the City? to develop as a TV series. The book is set to be published in August 2019. Bushnell will reportedly write the pilot script and serve as an executive producer on the project. The book and series will follow Bushnell’s beloved take on sex, dating, and friendship in New York City, like the seminal HBO series did, but will focus on characters in their 50s. “We’re thrilled to be able to continue that conversation from the underrepresented point of view of women in their 50s,” said Nicole Clemens, president of Paramount Television. “... And answer the question with, ‘Yes! There is more sex in the city!”

“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,” Bushnell said. “... 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.”