Sex and the City costar and Banff honoree Kim Cattrall is set to star in a redo of Sensitive Skin, another HBO sex-themed comedy series set in New York City.

‘It’s a half-hour comedy about a woman in her 50s going through a midlife crisis,’ Cattrall explains. ‘We don’t have an American title for it yet. I’m looking forward to it, and also looking forward to coming home and spending some time in Canada, on stage and, hopefully, on film, too.’

‘The project is a go,’ confirms a publicist with Daniels/Stephenson, Cattrall’s PR outfit in Canada.

Based on Britain’s BBC1 series Sensitive Skin, Cattrall will play a middle-aged wife and mother who rediscovers her sexuality and begins to question the choices she has made in life.

Cattrall is also co-exec producing with writers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, Emmy Award winners for The Sopranos.

The new series is part of an HBO development deal that Cattrall inked when she signed on for Sex and the City: The Movie. HBO is a Time Warner company.

The announcement was made shortly after Sex and the City nearly doubled Warner Bros.’ opening-weekend box-office expectations, raking in some US$55.7 million in North America, including $5.5 million through Alliance Films in Canada.

‘That’s why it’s so great to be involved in a film like [Sex and the City], where actresses are in their 40s and 50s and they’re being paid really well,’ Cattrall told Playback before opening weekend. ‘We’re not the peripheral, we’re not the subplot…we’re the main plot. If it does well at the box office, and Hollywood producers and studios see that, maybe they’ll say ‘Hey, we’ll do more!”

On June 9, the Banff World Television Festival will honor the U.K.-born, Canadian-bred actress with its NBC Universal Award of Distinction, for a 33-year career that includes everything from a role as a sexy gym teacher in the teen comedy Porky’s (1982) to the vixen Samantha Jones in Sex and the City.

With files from Marise Strauss