The CW Orders ‘Carrie Diaries’ Pilot 

Fans of ‘Sex and the City’ rejoice Carrie is returning to the small screen! Only this time we’re going to see how Miss Bradshaw spent her teenage years as The CW orders the pilot for Candace Bushnell’s prequel ‘The Carrie Diaries’. The book chronicles Carrie’s time at high school before she even met Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. 

Whilst I think the book may have made a good film, I’m not so sure about a television series. Firstly we know how it ends. We know who Carrie ends up with, we know that she follows her dream and becomes a writer in NYC, we know it has a happy ending. And at the end of the day isn’t that what keeps us watching a TV show? The suspense and wonder at where these characters are going to end up. Is this the relationship that lasts? Will she get the career she wants? With this removed will we still have an enjoyable show? I guess it could go another way and the producers may decide their own, different fate for Carrie, as they’ve done with many books to TV series in the past. I don’t know. 

My second concern is that at the end of the first prequel novel Carrie finds herself in NYC for the Summer and undoubtedly this will be incorporated into the show, but The CW already has a show about young pretty things frolicking in New York. Does ‘The Carrie Diaries’ spell the end of ‘Gossip Girl’? Because I don’t think I could live without my weekly Nate fix. 

I suppose we’ll have to wait until May, but at the moment I’m not convinced.