“Bright lights. Big city. Best friends”
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
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Episodes
1. Pilot
Three longtime friends - Victory, Nico, and Wendy - are challenged with keeping up with complicated business and personal lives. For Wendy, being a big shot film executive, a wife and a mother proves to be a heavy daily juggle. Victory, meanwhile, is struggling to revive her once top notch fashion career. Finally, Nico must deal with serious marriage issues besides a stressful working life. For these three powerful women, the road to success in all aspects of their lives can be quite bumpy. Luckily, they have each other for support along the ride.
2. Chapter Two: Nothing Sacred
Wendy enjoys the success of her company's most recent movie, but only for now. Wendy finds out that her nemesis, Janice Lashera promoted a novel for publication, defacing her as an empowered businesswoman and, even worse in her eyes, a bad mother. Elsewhere, Nico's relationship with Kirby heat's up, and instills Nico with this liberating mentality to shake things up around the office. Meanwhile, Victory has a problem with the downsizing of her company to just one employee, herself. However, she is very intrigued by her new man, Joe Bennett, who turns out to be a very different person than the one she though.
3. Chapter Three: Pink Poison
Wendy's rival, Janice Lasher, makes Wendy looks bad as a mother when she is preparing to release her new book. Wendy tries to proves the claims incorrect by bringing her daughter to a "Women in Media" luncheon. On the other hand, Nico tries to slow down on her affair with Kirby. Victory introduces Mr. Joe Bennett to Wendy and Nico, which leads to a major change in which direction the relationship will go.
4. Chapter Four: Bombay Highway
Wendy has her eyes on a film in India which she feels great about, but the film doesn't seem to be a money making scheme. Wendy, however, throws a premiere party and gives Victory an opportunity to design for a star actress. Meanwhile, Nico tells Victory and Wendy about her affair with Kirby.
5. Chapter Five: Dressed To Kill
Victory discovers that someone has stolen her designs and learns a trusted, former employee has betrayed her. Wendy, unwittingly, uses her position to rejuvenate her husband's music career by getting him a job composing for one of her movies. Nico continues her affair with Kirby but she's finding it hard to follow her own rules for the relationship and must battle her own jealousy.
6. Chapter Six: Take the High Road
Nico and Wendy go on a business trip to Scotland; Victory grows suspicious of her newfound investor.
7. Chapter Seven: Carpe Threesome
Wendy deals with a difficult scriptwriter. Nico faces a harsh reality when she learns that Charles has had a heart attack. Victory gets used to the idea of Joe being her boss instead of her boyfriend.
Cast & Crew
Brooke Shields
Wendy Healy
Kim Raver
Nico Reilly
Lindsay Price
Victory Ford
Paul Blackthorne
Shane Healy
Andrew McCarthy
Joe Bennett
Robert Buckley
Kirby Atwood
