Unreality Show: Candace Bushnell is Turning ‘Sex and the City’ into a Reality Dating Show for Four 50+ Single Galpals
Have you ever wished you could live the Sex and the City lifestyle?
We’re not talking about being able to afford a spacious Manhattan apartment and a closet full of haute couture and designer shoes on a freelance writer’s budget, but rather having the love life of protagonist Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
That idea is the basis for a new reality dating show that is being shopped around by Bunim/Murray productions, who have teamed up with Candace Bushnell (the author of the book that formed the basis of the series), called Is There Still Sex in the City.
The unscripted show will focus on four friends who are dealing with dating in their fifties, who want a “love do-over” and who will trade their big city lives to live in a “dating utopia,” according to Bushnell, and though it’s billed as a reality show, the show’s premise offers something entirely unreal.
Is There Still Sex in the City‘s logline reads, “They’ll live together in a cozy country chateau where they’ll have their pick of a different group of men in each episode. They’ll try the boy toys, sample a senior age player, be romanced by the rich guys and even get to flirt with their fantasy man. But in the end, who will really steal their hearts, and will our ladies be able to bring the sex back to the city?”
Bushnell is working on the series, and said in a statement that “fifty-something women (and above) are the hottest new dating demographic, and I should know, I am one of them,” adding “over the decades, I’ve dated men of all ages and I’m so excited to be working on a show that combines my passion for relationships with the chance to help women, like me, navigate a love do-over.”
Bushnell, also known as the real-life Carrie Bradshaw, invented the character to serve as her alter-ego while writing her 1996 novel. The book inspired HBO’s popular series of the same name, which ran for six seasons, and spawned two movies and a revival titled And Just Like That.
There’s no word on if the show will be holding auditions for its quartet of romance-seeking galpals, or where or when the show will air.