“Sex and the City” Author Candace Bushnell Confirms “And Just Like That”...-Style Reality Show
The woman who gave us Carrie Bradshaw is now behind a dating show following four friends in their 50s who are looking for love
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Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in And Just Like That...season 2.From "The Real Me" to reality TV — Sex and the City seems to be starting over, yet again.
After the success of series reboot And Just Like That…, SATC author Candace Bushnell is developing a new midlife dating series called Is There Still Sex in the City?
Bushnell confirmed her partnership with reality TV producing legends Bunim Murray in an Instagram post on Thursday, writing, “Cat’s out of the bag! So excited to be working on a dating show for all of us over 50-somethings with @bunimmurray. Stay tuned…”
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Candace Bushnell poses with And Just Like That... cast members Nicole Ari Parker, Sarita Choudhury, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Karen Pittman.The series will follow “four 'fabulous' friends in their fifties who are looking for a love do-over as they leave their busy city lives for a dating utopia,” Deadline first reported. The friends will live together and get to experiment with meeting men their own age, wealthy men and “fantasy” dates.
Bushnell, who hosted a dating Q&A with Tawkify in NYC on Nov. 9, told Deadline, “Fifty-something women and above are the hottest new dating demographic, and I should know, I am one of them. 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.”
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Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis returned for And Just Like That...Bunim Murray has previously won 85 Emmy Awards for series including MTV’s The Challenge, The Simple Life, The Real World, The Family Stallone and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. “We feel that Candace’s brand has grown with her audience and her expertise in the dating space is an incredible entry point for an immersive dating experiment,” they state in a statement.
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