Sex and the City costar Kim Cattrall is set to star in 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 Kate Alexander Daniels, partner in Cattrall’s Canadian publicity firm Daniels/Stephenson.

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, 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!”

Cattrall is being honored at this year’s Banff World Television Festival with the NBC Universal Award of Distinction, recognizing an ‘outstanding career in the broadcast industry.’

With files from Marise Strauss