Candace Bushnell, the writer whose work was adapted into the hit HBO comedy-drama series Sex and the City, has said that she will receive no money from the recent Netflix deal.
Last month, it was announced that Sex and the City would begin streaming on Netflix in the US from April 2024, having previously only been available on Max, Warner Bros Discovery’s proprietary streaming service.
While the financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, it is assumed to be lucrative, coming amid a broader licencing deal between Max and Netflix.
Bushnell, who wrote the original newspaper column and 1996 anthology book upon which the series was based, opened up about the deal to The Sunday Times, revealing that it would not “financially affect” her.
“All of these men who are in charge of things, they just keep moving these cards around to make money because every time they move the cards around somebody’s skimming,” she told the outlet. “The percentage of women in the 1 per cent who made their own money is about 3.5 per cent, and that’s shocking.”
“The way men do business is a Ponzi scheme.”
The series ran for six seasons on HBO, and was later revived for two theatrically released films, and an ongoing sequel series, titled …And Just Like That.
