NEW SHOW:
CASHMERE MAFIA
(ABC, 10-11 p.m.)
Cashmere Mafia is about four fabulous New York women juggling their personal and professional lives. Darren Star is producing and Patricia Field is designing the wardrobe. Is this sounding eerily familiar to fans of a certain HBO show that's currently being made into a movie? ''The comparison is understandable,'' admits Star — though he denies that Cashmere is merely a Sex and the City rip-off. ''Thematically, this is more of a drama about what it's like being women in the workplace and how that intersects with their personal lives.'' Ummm, we guess we see a distinction. Instead of a writer, lawyer, publicist, and art gallery curator, we've now got a publisher (Lucy Liu), a cosmetics executive (Bonnie Somerville), a Wall Street exec (Frances O'Connor), and a hotel-firm COO (Miranda Otto). The other inevitable comparison will come in February, when NBC's Lipstick Jungle (based on the New York-women-at-work novel by Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell) debuts. ''Shows about this arena have been developed ad nauseam by the networks,'' Star says of the similarities. Liu doesn't seem overly concerned about the post-Sex showdown with Lipstick. ''It's like going to Century 21,'' she says of Manhattan's legendary — and legendarily crowded — clothing store. ''It's a shot in the dark, but maybe you'll have the place all to yourself.'' A shopping metaphor? How very Carrie Bradshaw. —Jessica Shaw
Episodes set to air: 7
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