HBO has recently announced loads of new series and specials coming up. Tim Robbins, Diane Lane and James Gandolfini will be starring in a behind-the-scenes special about the making of the documentary An American Family. Sounds pretty interesting, right? And this is just one of the things that HBO has given us to look forward to. We can also look forward to Tilda, about a Hollywood blogger, and Taxi 0-22, an American version of the French-Canadian series with the same name.

And then there is another upcoming HBO series that I’m not necessarily looking forward to. Entourage producer Mark Wahlberg and Steven Levinson of Leverage are working a deal with HBO about a group of women working and trying to find romance in the City of Angels.

Interesting. To me, it sounds like one of two things: Entourage but with a cast of women or Sex and the City based in Los Angeles.

Sources promise that the script is still growing and won’t be nearly as focused on Hollywood as Entourage. So that leaves us with an L.A.-based Sex and the City.

Whatever happened to fresh, new ideas? Hollywood has been churning out remake after remake in the theaters, and now we have a series that seems like nothing more than a spin-off. It seems to me like these writers need to have a fresh brainstorming session.