sentences:  It spawned two feature films, "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010), and a prequel television series commissioned by The CW, "The Carrie Diaries" (2013–2014).The show was based in part on writer Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name, compiled from her column at "The New York Observer".Bushnell has said in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the "Sex and the City" essays, she used her own name initially, but for privacy reasons, later created the character played in the series by Sarah Jessica Parker.