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The Carrie Diaries Style Isn't a 'Joke Version of the '80s,' Says Producer

Originally posted 01/15/2013 10:45AM

The Carrie Diaries takes place in the early 1980s, but don't expect the decade's style clichés displayed on the show.

"Our whole idea for this was I didn't want it to feel like the joke version of the '80s with people in those thin glasses or parachute pants where even in the '80s we were all kind of thinking, 'Is this a mistake? It think it might be,' " the Sex and the City prequel's executive producer Amy B. Harris said during at the Television Critics Association panel to promote the highly anticipated show.

Instead, Harris says, she and fellow exec producer Stephanie Savage "are really trying to have fun mixing and matching – staying true to the '80s while also keeping the clothes as aspirational and inspirational as possible."

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Carrie Bradshaw, 16, Will Have Her Own Identity on The Carrie Diaries

Originally posted 10/24/2012 04:30PM

Creators of the CW's upcoming Sex and the City prequel, The Carrie Diaries, say fans should not expect a miniaturized version of iconic HBO show.

"We didn't want to do the Baby Muppets syndrome – 'Oh it's baby Samantha! It's baby Miranda!' " executive producer Amy B. Harris told SATC fans during a screening of the premiere episode on Monday at New York City's School of Visual Arts.

Instead, Harris and creator Candace Bushnell, who was also on hand for the premiere, hope to give 1984's Carrie Bradshaw – played by AnnaSophia Robb – her own identity and a new set of friends, reports Huffington Post.

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Filed Under: TV News, The Carrie Diaries, Sex and the City, AnnaSophia Robb, Candace Bushnell

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AnnaSophia Robb (Not Sarah Jessica Parker) Is This Carrie Bradshaw

Originally posted 03/24/2012 10:20AM

Sure, everybody knows Carrie Bradshaw – Sarah Jessica Parker in the HBO phenom that kept Sunday nights ablaze from 1998 till 2004, then again in a movie that was hot and a sequel that was not.

Now headed for the small screen is The Carrie Diaries, based on the 2010 prequel by Sex author Candace Bushnell.

The pilot for the CW network will star AnnaSophia Robb, shown here for the first time in costume (designed by Sex and the City and Gossip Girl's Emmy-winning Eric Daman) as the young Carrie.

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AnnaSophia Robb to Play Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City Prequel

Originally posted 02/28/2012 04:30PM

AnnaSophia Robb has some big – not to mention fashionable – shoes to fill.

The actress, 18, is set to play a high school version of the Manolo Blahnik-obsessing, love-chasing Carrie Bradshaw, a role originated by Sarah Jessica Parker in HBO's Sex and the City, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.

The CW has ordered a pilot episode of The Carrie Diaries, which will chronicle Bradshaw's teen days in '80s Manhattan, long before penning her sex column.