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It’s a case of handbags at ten paces. Two shows with two camps and a great divide down the middle.

It’s the Cashmere Mafia vs Lipstick Jungle catfight.

In the corner for Cashmere Mafia is America’s ABC, Darren Star Producer, Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor, Bonnie Somerville and Channel Nine.

In the other corner for Lipstick Jungle is NBC, Candace Bushnell Producer, Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price and Channel Seven.

The fact that Star (Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Sex and the City) and Bushnell (Sex and the City) were originally working together to get Lipstick on its feet is now becoming the stuff of TV legend. When the show floundered, Star left the project to go and develop his own, later learning Bushnell found success.

So who will be the winner? Neither if this review is to be believed.

“From a creative standpoint, Cashmere comes across as strictly a synthetic blend,”says Frazier Moore.”That was evident right away. On the other hand, its sister serial Lipstick is glossy and bright. But is it clever enough to stay alive in the jungle of prime time?

“Sadly, both series are deficient. But if Bushnell and Star had stuck together, who knows? The show that resulted might have had it all.”

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  1. I’ve seen both and Lipstick Jungle is by far the worse of the two. There is no chemistry between the characters, the writing is insipid, the directing is appalling, the acting is borderline. The men in their lives are only marginally less annoying than the women themselves. I did not warm to a single character, and the millionaire storyline is so far from a normal person’s reality that I struggle to see how the majority of the audience will swallow this. Not only that, but the Victory Ford character’s willingness to swallow the millionaire’s BS makes me want to punch her out.

    Cashmere’s pilot episode was brilliant, but unfortunately the first episode that actually went to air was contrived and weak. They spend too much time on their blackberries (this isn’t entertaining in real life, why would it be on TV?) and their friendship seems forced. Miranda Otto’s character is the COO version of Bree in Desperate Housewives, Mia Mason (Lucy Lui) takes a leaf out of Christina’s Grey’s Anatomy text book (emotional-vacuum, step on anyone who gets in my way!) and the whole ‘lesbian’ storyline is …. well, crap. Who in their right mind tries to kiss their boss a few days after they’re hired? The only remotely ‘new’ character that I adore is Zoe.

    That said, Cashmere gets a little better in it’s second and third episode…. I am trying to recall how long it took me to enjoy Sex & The City, because I do have vague memories of the first season being remarkably lack-lustre as well.

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