Great news for anyone who’s ever looked at the dating world of HBO’s Sex And The City (and its ongoing follow-up, And Just Like That…) and thought, not, “Oh Christ, there but for the grace of God,” but instead, “Yum yum, sign me up!”: Series creator Candace Bushnell is launching her own reality dating series that at least sounds like it was based on the show. Well, based on its latest incarnation, at least: Taking an apparent page from the recent success of The Golden Bachelor, Bushnell’s new series will showcase “four ‘fabulous’ friends in their fifties” as they attempt to find out, once and for all, which of four other women they most closely match to while also having various sex/city-adjacent adventures.
Honestly, we were tempted to poke a little fun at this concept, but the promotional copy from Deadline already kind of sincerely said the sort of stuff we would have said as a mean joke, so we might as well just reprint it verbatim: The women in question will “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.” (Quick question: How does a reality show cast for a “boy toy”? Does that go in the bio section of your resumé, or is it listed under “Special Skills”?)
The series itself is apparently titled Is There Still Sex In The City, with the same name as the the novel Bushnell published in 2019 (and which follows a different set of characters from the ones featured in the long-running column that inspired the TV shows). The series is being produced through Bunim/Murray, which produces The Real World and Project Runway among numerous other reality shows.