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

PREVIOUS: CW Eyes Sex & The Town Prequel Series Shepherded By Gossip Girl Producers Last month we reported the Barbara Journals, a TV series project according to Sex and also the City author Candace Bushnells recent book about Barbara Bradshaws senior high school years, is going to the CW. That now has turned into a reality following the project was pitched towards the network on Friday and bought within the room. Underneath the deal, that is 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 and also the City author/producer Amy Harris, who's writing for Gossip Girl this year, is writing the variation and executive creating with Bushnell, Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Barbara’s Journals is really a youthful-adult novel that stories Carries senior year of high school in a tiny Colonial town. Due to its youthful skew, it had been never considered for Cinemax, which modified Bushnell’s anthology book Sex and also the City in to the greatly popular comedy series produced by Darren Star and starring Sarah Jessica Parker. But Warner Bros. TV, which bought the privileges towards the Barbara Journals book from Bushnell, arrived at to its corporate brother or sister Cinemax. Throughout the series’ 6-year run, Bushnell’s figures developed his or her lives required numerous turns. WBTV’s privileges cope with Cinemax, that is now being nailed lower, allows the authors of the Barbara’s Journals series to include figures, traits and developments introduced about the Sex and also the City series together with the core source material, Bushnell’s book. For Star and Parker, neither of these is connected to the new project, a minimum of not for the time being.