"The Carrie Diaries" to Add "Sex and the City's" [Spoiler] in Upcoming Season 2
by Kimberly Roots
5/16/13


Carrie Bradshaw is about to meet an outrageous lifelong friend.

"The Carrie Diaries" will add the character of Samantha Jones — played by Kim Cattrall in HBO’s "Sex and the City" — in its recently announced second season.

“I’m really, really excited,” star AnnaSophia Robb told TVLine at The CW’s upfront presentation in New York on Thursday. “I had to keep it a secret, but I think it’s going to be so much fun. I’m looking forward to seeing where that goes.”



The network previewed that we’ll see the two women, who grow up to delve deep into New York’s eligible bachelor (and in one case, bachelorette) pool, meet; turns out, Samantha is cousin to mean girl Donna LaDonna.

The role has not yet been cast.

http://tvline.com/2013/05/16/the-carrie-diaries-season-2-spoilers-samantha/

Samantha & Donna as cousins, I can just picture that. I didn't know if this show would get a second season or not.

The CW’s "The Carrie Diaries" Finds its Samantha
by THE DEADLINE TEAM
Saturday July 20, 2013


Newcomer Lindsey Gort, who stars in the upcoming Denzel Washington-Mark Wahlberg pic 2 Guns, has been cast as the Samantha Jones character on "The Carrie Diaries", the CW‘s prequel series to "Sex and the City" and based on the books by Candace Bushnell.

Samantha is one of Carrie Bradshaw’s eventual three best friends in the HBO series (Kim Cattrall played her, earning five Emmy nominations).



In the CW’s 1980s-set world of "Diaries", which launches Season 2 on October 25, Carrie meets one of the most important people in her life through a surprise connection.

Samantha is a ballsy, beautiful and sexy young woman from the panhandle of Florida who has made her way — and already a name for herself — in the rock ’n’ roll scene of 1980s New York.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/carrie-diaries-samantha-character-lindsey-gort/

"The Carrie Diaries": Get a First Look at the New Samantha Jones
July 23, 2013
by Sadie Gennis


Oh, honey.

"The Carrie Diaries" has released the first photo of Lindsey Gort as Samantha Jones, the iconic character originally portrayed by Kim Cattrall.



"In another nerve-wracking search to create the amazing characters we all came to know and love on Sex and the City, we went out in search this year for a young Samantha Jones. Lindsey Gort walked into the room and owned the part. Funny and sexy with a whiff of vulnerability and an amazing dash of outrageousness, Lindsey is our exciting choice to play the young Samantha Jones," executive producer Amy B. Harris said in a statement.



"The Carrie Diaries" returns Friday, Oct. 25 at 8/7c on The CW.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Carrie-Diaries-Samantha-Jones-Lindsey-Gort-1068166.aspx