A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.
The original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.
But only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series – Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.
Kim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.
The US network did not say why Cattrall wasn’t cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That – a nod to one of the show’s original catchphrases.
However, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.
The new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.
The trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.
Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. It is an adaptation of Candace Bushnell‘s 1997 book of the same name. The series premiered in the United States on June 6, 1998, and concluded on February 22, 2004, with 94 episodes broadcast over six seasons. Throughout its development, the series received contributions from various producers, screenwriters, and directors, principally Michael Patrick King.
Set and filmed in New York City, the show follows the lives of a group of four women—three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties—who, despite their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other.
Starring Sarah Jessica Parker (as Carrie Bradshaw) and co-starring Kim Cattrall (as Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (as Charlotte York), and Cynthia Nixon (as Miranda Hobbes), the series had multiple continuing storylines that tackled relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity, while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships.
The deliberate omission of the better part of the early lives of the four women was the writers’ way of exploring social life—from sex to relationships—through each of their four very different, individual perspectives.
