Candace Bushnell: All for women

Los Angeles, Nov. 15 (Reuters): Writer Candace Bushnell, whose Sex and the City drew devoted audiences to HBO during its six-year run, will adapt her latest novel, Lipstick Jungle, into a half-hour series for NBC.

Lipstick, considered by some a follow-up to Sex and the City, chronicles the lives of Nico ’Neilly, Wendy Healy and Victory Ford, Nos. 8, 12 and 17 on the New York Post’s list of “New York’s 50 Most Powerful Women”, who would do anything to get ahead and stay on top.

“Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and try- ing to find him,” Bushnell said. “This is about women trying to become their own Mr Big for themselves. It’s about the new kind of successful career women who we’re seeing on the pages of Fortune magazine.”

Writer-producer Robin Schiff, who will pen the project with Bushnell for NBC Universal Television Studio, believes that Lipstick would fill a void on primetime television.

“Other than the procedural shows, you don’t see powerful women,” Schiff said.

Schiff most recently served as an executive producer/showrunner on UPN’s short-lived series The Bad Girl’s Guide and executive-produced the pilot for ABC’s Emily’s Reasons Why Not.