'One Fifth Avenue': Candace Bushnell Book Gets ABC TV Adaptation

Well, she certainly knows her niche.

Having written the columns and subsequent book that spawned perhaps the most successful female-driven primetime show in television history, author Candace Bushnell is going it another go. The author's post-"Sex and the City" book, "One Fifth Avenue," has been optioned by ABC television for an hourlong drama series, with the network no doubt hoping that the tome's very familiar formula will once again create a sensation.

The book, about a New York City woman who moves back downtown after separating from her husband, will certainly have some star power behind its adaptation. It's being written by a Gossip Girl executive producer, and produced by one of the execs behind "Grey's Anatomy."

In an interview with HuffPost back in 2008, Bushnell described the book as a sort of satire and documentary.

"I don't weary of New York. It is always interesting and full of characters. New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things. That's really the stuff of drama," she said. "You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. You can't get away from the fact that there are people here who are very wealthy and people who have nothing. So you see it all. I'm not condoning it; I just think it's interesting. I'm just recording it. Some of the satire in the book is about the materialism and the dangers of that, and the emptiness as well."

Still unclear is whether there will be a show based on Bushnell's new series, which focuses on "Sex and the City" protagonist Carrie Bradshaw's younger days. She recently signed a two book deal to continue the YA series.

For more, click over to The Hollywood Reporter.

Comments

[Netta Chinn]

05:10 PM on 09/09/2011

This show should be on HBO

[Reticent2]

05:08 PM on 09/08/2011

Oh, I am begging for an evil character that pimps Ann Coulter. . .

[Mike Clark II]

04:03 PM on 09/08/2011

lipstick jungle was canceled and i liked that show and i am a guy! ABC will not give this a chance

[Contact1972]

02:40 AM on 09/09/2011

I liked that show as well.

[Netta Chinn]

05:10 PM on 09/09/2011

I liked Lipstick Junge as well...I hope her new show makes it on primetime!

[outloud]

03:35 PM on 09/08/2011

Oh no, please spare us. Haven't we been punished enough?

Combining 'Sex in the City' and 'Grey's Anatomy' will surely cause a disturbance in the time continuum.

[Fencik45]

03:14 PM on 09/08/2011

Whatever it is...just don't make it into a movie...let alone TWO!

[Margo Arrowsmith]

04:24 AM on 09/09/2011

You know the movies were bad, but I enjoyed seeing the archetypal women and what happened to them. If you think of them, not as movies, but as catching up, and don't watch them all at one sitting, they aren't too bad. :-D

[mystshy]

02:35 PM on 09/08/2011

MORE CRAPPY TV,,,,,,,,,,,,,,JUST WHAT WE NEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[henriette and hube]

02:51 PM on 09/09/2011

Yes! I must be the only person in the world who hasn't watched even one episode of Sex in the City not the movie or is it now movies. Of course I watch very little American TV which I consider trash and getting worse which means the trash is piling up.

[Jack bones]

01:47 PM on 09/08/2011

Please don't let this lady do anymore shows.

[nthespian]

01:38 PM on 09/08/2011

Her writing is pretty solid. The show doesn't really pick up on all of the satire due to the horrid puns, but i will say that under the surface of Bushnell's writing, there is this very witty inner-dialogue going on about just what she says in this article: materialism and emptiness. It somewhat irks me that she has not been a contributing writer to any of the series that her books have spawned. Also, i feel as though much of the writing she does works better on a dedicated adult audience. I think Shotime should have optioned this book, but that's just me.

[Ralph Zuccaro]

01:28 PM on 09/08/2011

Trash SELLS- This and Sex and the City- PURE TRASH for the sick of mind!!

[greymom]

04:53 PM on 09/08/2011

Oh come on now. I am a normal 60 year old with a good marriage and a successful life with many friends. No one would call me "sick of mind" and I am a fan of Sex and the City. Truly witty writing with interesting characters and one of the few shows I have watched over the past years.

[DJE12857]

06:16 PM on 09/08/2011

I love Sex and the City and am quite "sick of mind" but the two are not related.
The show was about the relationship between 4 friends who truly loved each other and weren't judgemental of each others choices. Not "trashy" at all.

[beachbunnie]

01:27 PM on 09/08/2011

Guess as long as there are money hungry sex crazed don't care about anyone but themselves people in NYC Candace will always have a job.
Do we really need more Carrie Bradshaw?

[Chad Wheeler]

04:21 PM on 09/08/2011

i do!

[DJE12857]

06:17 PM on 09/08/2011

me too.

[greymom]

04:54 PM on 09/08/2011

I do, as well as Samantha and all of her friends. I loved the show, since I grew up on a farm and always dreamed of being a city girl. I really enjoyed the series.