With TV shows like The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Nakita and 90210 The CW is a prime candidate for a TV take on author Candice Bushnell’s recent book about Sex & the City’s Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, The Carrie Diaries. According to Deadline the following is being considered…

There are no deals in place, and talks are in preliminary stages, but I hear that Warner Bros TV would produce and Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are being courted to shepherd the project through their Warner Bros TV-based Fake Empire banner. Former Sex and the City writer/producer Amy Harris, who is writing for Gossip Girl this season, will likely pen the adaptation.

Because it previously adapted Bushnell’s Sex and the City into a hugely popular series, HBO has the rights to The Carrie Diaries, a young-adult novel that chronicles Carrie’s senior year of high school in a small New England town. But since the book is much younger skewing than HBO’s audience, the pay cable network had been seeking another outlet for the potential series. “Discussions are underway for The Carrie Diaries, Candice Bushnell’s book about Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, to find a home as a potential television series,” HBO said in a statement.

Obviously, this is just speculation, but I’m incredibly excited for this potential spin-off and I think The CW would be an excellent host. In the recent past every series I’ve viewed from The CW has been well developed and had wonderful actors. I’ll definitely be keeping my fingers crossed for this one for sure!

Are you a fan of The Sex and the City series? Would you be open to watching a series about Carrie’s high school years and do you think The CW would do a good job at representing the series?

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