Sex and the City gets a follow-up series - WITHOUT Carrie Bradshaw and co

Carrie, Samantha and co won't be returning 
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A Sex and the City follow-up series is in the works, based on a new novel by author Candace Bushnell which focuses on the love lives of women in their 50s and 60s.

Is There Still Sex In The City? will be published in the US in August, and a TV adaptation is currently in the works at Paramount, with Bushnell writing the pilot script and serving as an executive producer.

According to an official synopsis, the book and show will follow “the love and dating habits of middle aged women as they continue to navigate the ever-modernising world of relationships”.

But, fans of the original series will be disappointed to learn that it will not follow the adventures of Carrie Bradshaw and co.

Spin-off: the new series will reportedly focus on a different set of characters.
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The show will instead focus on new characters who are based “between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village,” Deadline reports.

“It didn’t used to be this way,” Bushnell said in a statement announcing the project. “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.

“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.”

Success: the series inspired two hit spin-off films (Warner Bros)

Paramount Television president Nicole Clemens said: “The original Sex and the City book and series served as a ground-breaking 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.”

The original Sex and the City series was based on Bushnell’s 1997 essay collection of the same name, and aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004.

It starred Sarah Jessica Parker as Manhattan-based columnist Carrie Bradshaw, and chronicled the lives and loves of her and her three best friends, Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Samantha (Kim Cattrall) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon).

The success of the show spawned two spin-off films, released in 2008 and 2010, and prequel series The Carrie Diaries, which aired on The CW.

A third film was reportedly scrapped due to a disagreement between Parker and Cattrall.

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