Plum Sykes

Even as Candace Bushnell's NBC dramedy about powerful New York women Lipstick Jungle will return for a second season, Bergdorf Blondes author Plum Sykes is working on a new show called Mogulettes, about a group of women click-clacking their way onto airplanes instead of New York City streets. Variety reports:

"Mogulettes," which Sykes is penning with scribe Amy Harris ("The Comeback"), will center on jet-setting twentysomething women who have already become captains of industry. Show revolves around Eva, the beautiful and brilliant leader of a cosmetics empire.

Ms. Sykes originally brought a show based on her Bergdorf Blondes book to the WB a few years ago. But they passed. NBC seems to love it: "I think Plum has a unique insight into social dynamics in a way that she’s able to find these characters that are at once sympathetic and aspirational," producer Charlie Corwin told Variety.

Since its inaugural “members-only” dinner on Sept. 19 at Indochine, The Supper Club, a purportedly exclusive social service founded by British entrepreneur Tamsin Lonsdale, has hosted over a dozen events at popular nightspots around town. But some are carping that the club—whose 17 ambassadors include the likes of socialites Peter Davis, Euan Rellie and Lucy Sykes, and which purports to provide access to places New Yorkers can’t normally go—is not everything it’s cracked up to be.

“Tamsin’s current members are far more connected than she can dream of being,” said a Supper Club member. “She’s wholly relying on them for introductions and using their names and status to build a club that will eventually cater only to the bridge-and-tunnel set.”  read more »