If you've ever been curious as to the differences between Candace Bushnell writing about over-privileged Manhattanites and Plum Sykes writing about over-privileged Manhattanites, then this should clear it up for you: Duff is "more reflective of women's life post-9/11." Whatever that means. Well, it was attributed to some magazine article on her Wikipedia page, so it must be true. And it probably means there are more terrorist references in Bergdorf Blondes, Sykes' debut novel from 2004, then there were in the entirety of the Sex and the City franchise of Bushnell's.

But whatever differences the two writers may have had are slowly dissolving as Sykes takes a page out of Bushnell's book and tries her hand at a television series for NBC.

Sykes' Mogulettes will appear as a half-hour comedy about young female tycoons and will premiere….sometime in the future. Did no one learn the lesson from Lipstick Jungle (Bushnell's other, less successful franchise) and Cashmere Mafia (from former Bushnell friend Darren Star)?

This is how Variety sums up Sykes' TV effort: '"Mogulettes," which Sykes is penning with scribe Amy Harris ("The Comeback"), will center on jet-setting twentysomething women who have already become captains of industry. Show revolves around Eva, the beautiful and brilliant leader of a cosmetics empire.'

Blegh. It's as if every chick-lit writer feels the need to follow in SATC footsteps and pen some awful series (ostensibly) about "modern women" who live in New York and love to shop. Oh, right, because they do.

Here's how these scenarios so often go: Ambitious women who spell Problems with a capital "p" are focused on finding a guy to love them, how to expand their shoe closets, and what type of awful metaphor they can sum up their lives with at any given moment.

There have already been brilliant commentaries on how many steps back Sex and the City has set feminism, and there is surely a time and place for these modern day fairytales, but we've already seen one rip off after the next that television critics could attach the insta-pun "Get Carried away."

It would be one thing if Sykes kept her plotlines fringed with designer labels on the bookshelf. And while teaming with The Comeback's Amy Harris is one step in the right direction, by the time this thing hits the airwaves, even Ugly Betty is going to start looking desperate.