If done well, NBC’s new show about Cosmopolitan Magazine could be like The Devil Wears Prada for TV.

There’s a good story behind Cosmopolitan Magazine, apparently, and NBC is going to tell it.

Variety reports that NBC has bought a show based on the popular women’s magazine, which is set to follow the journalists on staff as they deal with such issues as might be described within Cosmo’s pages. It is written by former Parenthood exec Sarah Watson.

The fictional drama will be executively produced by Cosmopolitan’s editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, and is inspired by her life.

If Variety’s description is anything to go by, The Cosmo Show (too soon?) sounds like a mashup of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives:

“Just like the readers they cater to, the characters’ struggles are about balancing career and family, finding your identity, and according to the logline, ‘having the most mind blowing orgasms,’ while getting your heart broken and managing friendships — all while wearing the perfect pair of jeans to flatter any body type.”

Of course the salacious gossip elements are needed to hook in viewers, but we can’t help but hope that the show will leave room to explore actual issues of working at a lifestyle magazine: pitching stories, competing for exclusives, doing photoshoots and interviews, working to impossible deadlines.

There is a lot of drama in this industry, and the actual job part of it all has been brilliantly dramatized in movies like The Devil Wears Prada and 13 Going on 30 — and, of course, the awesome Vogue documentary The September Issue.

We’ll have to wait and see what NBC does with this new industry-inspired series.

Notably, the network is also developing a show by model Cindy Crawford, titled Icon, set to explore the modeling wars of the 1980s.