UPDATE: Carries Journals Now Formally At CW With Gossip Girl Producers Aboard

PREVIOUS: CW Eyes Sex & The City Prequel Series Shepherded By Gossip Girl Producers Recently we reported the Barbara Journals, a TV series project based on Sex as well as the City author Candace Bushnells recent book about Barbara Bradshaws secondary school years, will the CW. That presently has converted into a real possibility following a project was pitched for the network on Friday and bought inside the room. Beneath the deal, that's being completed, Warner Bros. TV is creating with Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s studio-based Fake Empire banner. Former Sex as well as the City author/producer Amy Harris, who's writing for Gossip Girl this season, is writing the variation and executive creating with Bushnell, Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Barbara’s Journals can be a youthful-adult novel that tales Carries senior year of high school inside a small Colonial town. Because of its youthful skew, it absolutely was never considered for Cinemax, which modified Bushnell’s anthology book Sex as well as the City into the greatly popular comedy series created by Darren Star and starring Sarah Jessica Parker. But Warner Bros. TV, which bought the rights for the Barbara Journals book from Bushnell, showed up at to its corporate sister Cinemax. Through the series’ 6-year run, Bushnell’s figures developed their lives needed numerous turns. WBTV’s rights deal with Cinemax, that's now being nailed lower, enables the authors from the Barbara’s Journals series to incorporate figures, traits and developments introduced concerning the Sex as well as the City series with the core source material, Bushnell’s book. For Star and Parker, neither could well be attached to the new project, no less than not for the moment.