As soon as deals were signed, sealed and delivered for SATC brainchildren Candace Bushnell and Darren Star to helm their own interchangeable shows on rival networks, the claws were out. Rumors of fights between the former successful partners, publicly voiced dismissals of the others' futures in primetime, and an overall tension among loyal SATC viewers concerned about their iconic creators' feud led to a predictable race-to-the-finish come winter pilot season. And now, according to the NY Daily News, we may have a winner. Today's rumor on which Menopause And The City spinoff is most likely to bite the dust first, after the jump...

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We enjoyed this comment left on this morning's post about Cashmere Mafia.

I don't know why TV networks don't consult with me before they put this shit on the air. I could have told them about Cashmere Mafia. I could have told them about Monster House. I could have told Channel 10 about The Wedge and that stupid Real Stories Hamish and Andy thing too.

I never even watched any episode of any of those shows - the ads were enough for me to know they'd flop.

by Carla at 9:58 AM

Please, please be who we want you to be...

Boom-tish!

We wanted Cashmere Mafia to blow us away with wit and brilliance, truly we did. There's nothing we like better at the beginning of the year than discovering a gem of a show we can get obsessive about, leading us to cancel important social engagements in order to ensure we're sitting in front of the small screen at the same time each week, desperately craving another hit from the televisual bong.

After learning of Cashmere Mafia last year (a result of our incredibly pointless search for Frances O'Connor), we did express some reservations about the show's name, muttering in a concerned manner "We're glad to see two charming Australian actresses have been gainfully employed, but... Cashmere Mafia? Why not just call the show Labia and get it over with?"

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· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Can't Blame the Writers For the Current Idea Shortage Edition: Jennifer Connelly - an actress we'd pay $14 dollars to watch knitting a sweater or making peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches - will join monosyllabic, paparazzi-punishing superstar Keanu Reeves in Fox's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. [Variety]

· ABC's Cashmere Mafia might be the first primetime victim of the strike, as the network yanks the new series from its schedule before its originally planned November 27 debut. But good news for those craving Sex and the City-inspired entertainment: NBC hasn't yet abandoned nearly identical project Lipstick Jungle. [Variety]

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Back in early June - apropos of absolutely nothing - Defamer Australia decided to try and find out what on earth had happened to Frances O'Connor, the one-time "thespian wonder from Down Under" (our words).

After hitting the pavement and asking assorted industry figures (tram drivers, cabbies, the guy who checks tickets on the train - hey, we didn't say they were figures from the entertainment industry) managed to turn up exactly bugger all on Frances O'Connor's whereabouts, we were forced to turn to the only two sources we truly trust in this crazy world - Google and Wikipedia.

The result? Well, Frances O'Connor the Actress hadn't done much since the birth of her child... and she shared her name with an armless wonder who could smoke with her feet! We heart Frances O'Connor the Armless Wonder!

But today, as we perused The Age in the vain hope of finding something - anything - interesting to read, we discovered that Frances O'Connor the Actress is back at work!

Cashmere Mafia is the new show from Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City, and fans will spot the similarities. The differences? These four beautiful, ambitious female friends are all top of their industry, and their struggle is not finding a boyfriend but keeping a husband.

The screen cuts into an extreme close-up of one of the women, Frances O'Connor, explaining why she puts up with her husband's affairs.

"We are as far as it is possible to be from the model of the wife he grew up with," she intones resignedly. "We earn more money, we have more power." The three other women - Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Bonnie Somerville - stare on sadly, clutching their cocktails.

We're glad to see two charming Australian actresses have been gainfully employed, but... Cashmere Mafia? Why not just call the show Labia and get it over with?