The present is based mostly on writer Candace Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" released in The New York Observer, which was later compiled into a e book of the identical title. It is an adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 ebook anthology of the exact title. Bushnell and the tv version of Carrie (who experienced no very last title in the column) have the same initials, a flourish emphasizing their relationship.