TV Showing for Sex and the City Follow-up

Sex and the City author Candice Bushnell is returning to TV with a new NBC show based on her latest novel, Lipstick Jungle.

Bushnell will be even more closely involved in Lipstick Jungle than she was in Sex and the City, which was adapted for TV from her novel by Darren Star.

Mr Star had been linked to the TV adaptation of Lipstick Jungle, but Bushnell is to work on the NBC version herself, along with screenwriter Robin Schiff, whose credits include Party of Five and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.

Bushnell and Ms Schiff will also executive produce the Lipstick Jungle pilot for NBC Universal TV Studio.

Bushnell's follow-up to the era-defining HBO comedy does not stray far from Sex and the City territory, revolving around a trio of rich, power-hungry women struggling to maintain their status in New York high society.

The three main female characters in Lipstick Jungle are all 40-somethings who are balancing marriage and family along with high-powered careers in fashion, publishing and the movie industry.

"This phenomenon of women in their 40s who make more money than their husbands - for me it's as big a phenomenon as Sex and the City was 10 years ago," Bushnell has said of her new novel.