Hollyweird just won't let Carrie Bradshaw go. According to Deadline, HBO could be partnering with The CW to bring Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City prequel series The Carrie Diaries to the netlet. This development comes on the heels of Michael Patrick King saying he wasn't having anything to do with a then-planned big screen adventure for a teenage Carrie and Co. I gotta be real here and say I totally understood where King was coming from. READ MORE

Last week Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall grabbed headlines at the premiere of her latest film, Meet Monica Velour, by taking gossip reporters to task and saying what they do isn’t a “respectable job.”

This Friday, April 8, Cattrall drops by The Morning Jolt With Larry Flick on Sirius OutQ to talk about Meet Monica Velour. In the film she plays a has been 70s and 80s porn star, who’s hit rock bottom If you are a fan of Cattrall—and I know at least one of us here at Pop Confidential is—this looks like a film you’re going to want to see in theaters. 

Watch the trailer for Meet Monica Velour after the jump!

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Could Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively take on the role of Carrie Bradshaw in a Sex and the City prequel? According to Grazia magazine, Michael Patrick King has expressed interest in adapting Candace Bushnell’s Summer and the City to the big screen and has his eye on Blake Lively for the role of Carrie.

Unfortunately for Pop Confidential’s Jamey Giddens, the fab four might not appear in the prequel.  

“There are no plans to bring SJP and the other girls back together in the old format,” says an insider. “The prequel is about breathing new life into the story and exploring Carrie’s first few months in NYC and the beginning of her relationship with an older man.”

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What do you get when you take fabulous women, living glamorous lives, set in The Big Apple, based on a phenomenon with origins in the writings of Candace Bushnell? Not a Sex and the City-esque hit for network television apparently.
 
NBC has cancelled Lipstick Jungle, one of two Sex clones that premiered pre-Strike, as well as Christian Slater's My Own Worst Enemy. Based on the novel by the same name from Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle was one of the most heavily promoted shows in recent television history and was touted as the heiress apparent to HBO's smash hit Sex and the City, also based on Bushnell's prose.  READ MORE

What could be better than a 90210 remake? How about a Melrose Place remake? Lisa Rinna revealed to Mark Malkin at E! Online that there is a possibility of Melrose returning.

"I've heard a rumor of them bringing back the show like they did 90210," Rinna said at TV Guide's post-Emmy party. "I heard that it's somewhere at the CW."

No surprise, but Ms. Rinna would jump at the chance to reprise her role as Taylor McBride. "I would do it in a heartbeat," she said.

Melrose Place ran from 1992 to 1999. "Let's bring it on," Rinna squealed. "Melrose, 10 years later!"

If Melrose were to return, who would you like see return of the original show's cast? Doug Savant and Marcia Cross are on Desperate Housewives. Kristin Davis could be filming a Sex and the City sequel. Jack Wagner is on The Bold and the Beautiful.  Rob Estes is on 90210. Kelly Rutherford is on Gossip Girls. Josie Bissett is on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Courtney Thorne-Smith is stuck on According to Jim, which returns in 2009.

Of the Melrose cast, it would appear that Heather Locklear, Lisa Rinna, Grant Show and Thomas Calabro are the few major Melrose alum who aren't already cast members on hit or buzzworthy TV shows or movies.

Last week Raising the Bar premiered on TNT and even though it stars TV staples Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Jane Kaczmarek and Currie Graham, I found the dialogue delivery to come off as a bit "canned" and I wasn't sure I wanted to check out the second episode. However, given my love for The Closer and Saving Grace, I figured why not give it a second chance?

Other than Boston Legal, I haven't really enjoyed a legal drama since The Practice so I didn't really pay attention to the cast of Raising the Bar. Imagine my confusion last night when an actress appeared who I couldn't quite place, but seemed oh so familiar. At first I thought it was Sex and the City star Kristin Davis but, I knew there was no way in hell that an "A List" star like Davis would be playing 5th fiddle on a TNT show. So, I did a little digging last night and discovered that the reason was that the actress in question was former All My Children star Natalia Cigliuti (Anita Santos).

I wasn't the biggest fan of the actress in her All My Children role, but I have to admit she actually did a pretty good job as Roberta "Bobbi" Gilardi. Turns out that after leaving Pine Valley, Natalia raised her own bar.