Jenny Carchman will entertain and enlighten by offering insight into what goes on in New Yorkers’ bedrooms. The “Fourth Estate” filmmaker has been tapped to direct a verité docuseries based on The Cut’s Sex Diaries. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.
A popular sex and dating column, Sex Diaries originated in 2007 in New York’s Daily Intelligencer blog. After ending in 2013, New York’s The Cut brought the feature back in 2015 for a limited run and, due to popular demand, continued to publish it weekly. Each week sees an anonymous New Yorker sharing an intimate seven-day diary detailing a week of their sex life, whether it included dates, no dates, sex with multiple different partners, sex with no partners, and so on. Any given week, a diarist may recount an orgy or PG-13 cuddles.
“To prepare for the show, The Cut recently put out a call for diarists ‘who are interested, or potentially interested, or even just at tiny bit curious’ about being on camera,” THR details. “The post called it ‘a creative-spirited, open-minded, sex-positive, woke project’ and said that the team behind Sex Diaries was looking for ‘New Yorkers who are single, in a relationship, married, divorced, undefined, straight, bi, gay, pan, fluid, or flirting with anything in between.'”
“The Family Business: Trump and Taxes,” “Enlighten Us,” and “One Nation Under Dog” are among Carchman’s other credits. She also has a docuseries about New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams is in the works at Showtime.