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Zahra Mulroy

Sex and the City is finally getting a new TV series - with one huge change

Sex and the City fans have had nine years to allow the horrific memories of the second film to fade away.

Which means we might just about be ready for new life to be breathed into a reboot of our favourite show.

So it's with joy and trepidation that we say, SATC is returning to the small screen.

However, there's one HUGE change afoot which will mean it's a very different type of show to the one we remember.

With the bitter feud between Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker still ongoing, this puts paid to the original four actors reuniting.

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We sadly won't be getting to see a post menopause Samantha living her best life, nor if Carrie and Big are finally managing to enjoy being married.

Instead, we'll be seeing a host of new characters.

According to TheWrap , Candace Bushnell has now signed on to turn her upcoming follow-up book Is There Still Sex in the City? into a series for Paramount Television.

The original series was based on Bushnell's essay collection, also called Sex and the City.

SJP with author Candace Bushnell (Patrick McMullan via Getty Image)

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The new series will take a look at love and life in your fifties and sixties and is set between Manhattan's Upper East Side and a fictional country retreat known as The Village.

Of her new book and the show, Bushnell says: "It didn't used to be this way.

"At one time, 50-something meant the beginning of retirement–working less, spending more time on your hobbies, with your friends, who like you were sliding into a more leisurely lifestyle. In short, retirement age folks weren't meant to do much of anything but get older and a bit heavier.

"They weren't expected to exercise, start new business ventures, move to a different state, have casual sex with strangers, and start all over again.

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"But this is exactly what the lives of a lot of 50- and 60-something women look like today and I’m thrilled to be reflecting the rich, complexity of their reality on the page and now on the screen."

We're sad we won't get to see Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte et al, but we have every faith this new show will be as funny, poignant and unflinching as the original.

Anything has to be better than the second film, right?

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