The CW has been busy scooping up as many new pilots as possible, including a Sex and the City prequel, an adaptation of DC Comics’ Green Arrow and a modern take on Beauty and the Beast. Add those to the already in development Cult and you have four pilots already! If I didn’t know any better, I’d think the CW is looking to keep their options open in case they need to cancel a handful of their current series.
EW.com reports the Sex and the City prequel will follow a young Carrie Bradshaw in the 80s. This will be called The Carrie Diaries and is based on the novels by Candace Bushnell. Carrie will be “asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family, while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.” Amy Harris, who worked on Sex and the City, wrote the pilot. The series will be executive produced by Bushnell, Len Goldstein, Jason Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. Schwartz and Savage are already busy working on Gossip Girl, which might mean GG is on its last season.
The Green Arrow adaptation will simply be called Arrow, which I think is a mistake. How will anyone recognize what its about? It would be like calling a Wonder Woman series “Wonder.” As for the Beauty and the Beast pilot, it will be a “modern day romantic love story with a procedural twist.” It’s hard to imagine what that twist might be, but I have to admit it has my attention more than anything else mentioned so far. The CW has a lot going on right now. I’d keep my eye on this network if I were you.
