TCA: Designers Say 'Two Broke Girls' Isn't Any 'Sex And Also The City'

Diane Haithman is adding to Deadline's TCA coverage. Michael Patrick King Not Doing 'Sex And Also The City' Prequel At the modern TCA panel on 2 Broke Women -- a brand new comedy from Sex and also the City veteran Michael Patrick King and Whitney Cummings, who's also starring in their sitcom for NBC this year -- the creative team shunned evaluations between your Sex and also the City and also the new CBS comedy simply because theyre both about single women.That demonstrate which show (have) different DNA, King stated, protesting that girl shows are frequently discussed as when they are the same show, and all sorts of books about women summarily ignored as chick lit. (2 Broke Women is) the evil twin of chick lit, King stated. And in contrast to Sex, where nobody really understood -- or desired to know -- the way the women taken care of their attractive Manhattan flats and Jimmy Choo footwear, King stated money will be a hard reality beyond only the title. Barbara Bradshaw and her closet were an illusion, he stated, likening Carries wardrobe towards the closet within the Stories of Narnia. Individuals women had relationship check lists. These women barely have inspections.King added the narrative of among the waitresses, described by Janet Behrs, like a wealthy girl whose family has lost almost all their money wasn't directly inspired by Bernie Madoff but inspired by the modern economic reality. We loved the frightening concept of speaking about money, he stated. (There's one inevitable link between the implies that emerged at the start of the panel, however: Kat Dennings, who stars because the streetwise one out of the happy couple of waitresses from the title, described the self-referred to blow job Bar Mitzvah girl within an episode of Sex and also the City. Dennis claims that they needed to request Sex star Kim Cattrall what blow job meant). As she'd in an NBC panel earlier within the week, Cummings defended her capability to behave as a professional consultant about this show in addition to star in their sitcom, though acknowledging that NBCs Whitney might require more of her presence. Im starring within the other show I must physically be there, she stated. For his part, King referred to Cummings role by doing this: Whitney is area of the architecture from the show now, were in the home, he stated. The producers caught some flak from reporters in the panel about having fun with some ethnic stereotypes within the show, particular the smoothness of the recent Korean immigrant. The smoothness isn't dumb -- he just gone to live in the nation, he does not be aware of language, Cummings stated, quarrelling that journalists may have a misperception from the character in the pilot episode since you cant explore (every character) in twenty minutes. King also stated the show wasn't likely to back away from edgy humor, including a tale within the pilot about disabled physicist Stephen Hawking that riled some within the audience. We would like it to be as current so that as edgy as you possibly can, he stated. Twenty-three-year-old women are extremely sophisticated in what they're processing. You can't like this joke, and that i realise why, but we'll always achieve for comedy.