Ilana Glazer Is Writing a ‘Sex and the City’-Type Show About ‘2 Women and 2 Gay Guys’
Ilana Glazer is back to writing TV — and this time, they are looking to make “Sex and the City” more queer.
Glazer, who uses she/they pronouns, said during the “Dinner’s On Me” podcast that they are returning to TV six years after wrapping “Broad City.” The beloved Comedy Central series concluded in 2019.
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“I’m writing a show right now. I’m doing a rewrite actually of this draft right now,” Glazer said. “It’s like ‘Sex and the City’ with two women and two gay guys. ‘Cause the woman and gay guy friendship is a big deal.”
Glazer continued, “My first best friend is my brother, [who is a] gay guy. All of my best friends growing up are gay boys. I want it to be them.”
Glazer co-created the acclaimed comedy “Broad City” with Abbi Jacobson. Glazer recently said during NPR’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin” podcast that the series was supposed to air for seven seasons. “Broad City” first began as a web show in 2009 before landing a five-season run on Comedy Central starting in 2014.
“‘Broad City’ was like a big [deal]. We had signed our contract of seven seasons and then, we both came to it, Abbi and I. And Comedy Central was like, ‘Huh?’” Glazer said. “We were like ambivalent and unsure, but I think that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end.”
Glazer continued, “And like being able to trust that I am generative beyond this moment, whether it’s a creative project or anything, you know, but I am secure that I will keep generating new layers and do without thinking. […] I was a drummer for many years. I miss it. And I just loved percussion for a time. For a time, I was like, ‘I’m going to be an orchestra percussionist.’ Can you imagine me like on a timpani? Like, dum da da dum ba dum. And it’s like, I think it’s like a rhythm thing. You know what I mean? It’s like a larger scale rhythm thing of like, ‘This is over,’ and accepting the loss too.”
Glazer also told IndieWire in 2019 that they were ready to move on from the show despite its continued success.
“I think we always knew that this show had to end to still feel like this flash-in-the-pan experience — this quick, specific, ‘everything’s moving so fast’ both in the city, but in their minds, between the two of them,” Glazer said. “I think part of us knew that this was going to end at this point and started getting other projects on our plates.”
They added at the time, “It’s like my entire 20s was ‘Broad City.’ I didn’t have those experiences. I wrote them and then enacted them, but I didn’t experience them. I’m feeling that now. Really, looking back and being like, ‘Wow, the past 10 years I’ve been writing and curating and acting.’ Not solely, but I’ve been thinking about the gap between [my character] Ilana Wexler and Ilana Glazer more.”
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