Posted on 01/08/2003 5:04:38 PM PST by MadIvan
Sex and the City, the TV show that attracted millions of viewers with its celebration of four New York women's love of men, shoes and cocktails, is to end after the next series.
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, TV is freed at last from this rubbish! - Ivan
American cable station HBO said the next season, which is due to start shooting in March, will be the last. The programme has been a huge success since its debut in America in 1998 and attracts an audience of more than four million on Channel 4.
However, the recent pregnancies of Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon, two of its principal actresses, as well as the split last month of Kim Cattrall, who plays nymphomaniac Samantha Jones in the series, from her husband have caused the cast to decide not to continue on the programme.
Carolyn Strauss, HBO's vice president of original programming, said the sixth and final series will consist of 20 episodes and will be broadcast in America early next year. The decision was made by the "creative forces" behind the series. The four leading actresses rejected substantial increases to their present £50,000-an-episode salaries to stay.
Rumours started last year that all was not well with the programme. Nixon, 36, who plays lawyer Miranda Hobbes, said in a television interview in November that she wanted to leave the series to spend more time with her newborn baby.
Parker, 37, who stars as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw, also gave birth last year to a boy David. She and her husband, actor Matthew Broderick, were upset by media attention surrounding the birth in October.
Crowds of paparazzi had camped outside their New York apartment for weeks in the hope of getting the first photograph of the baby.
Kristin Davis, who plays prim Charlotte York, recently admitted she had been an alcoholic and Cattrall's marriage crumbled last month despite the actress and her husband recently publishing a sex guide for couples.
Nevertheless during its four-year run the show, which was inspired by Candace Bushnell's New York Observer column of the same name, is credited with revolutionising the portrayal of women on television.
Where previously they had been shown as lonely singletons desperate for love on programmes such as Ally McBeal, suddenly there emerged the four Manhattan man-eaters who made no excuse for their enjoyment in their swinging sex lives.
It was the show in which Samantha proclaimed: "There's not enough wallspace in New York to hang all my exes but let me tell you a lot of them were hung."
It went on to win two Emmy awards and was acclaimed by critics for supposedly showing girls gossiping like real women, even though it was actually penned by a team of homosexual scriptwriters.
A show with alot of "whacking"?
Oooh, I WANT...nay, I DEMAND an audition. And I'll wear pretty flowers on me frocks too...if I had time to wear a frock and do me nails and stuff....I would though, honest I would!!! *L*
I recently went from cable to dish. In doing so, I decided that I'd decide to give HBO, one last chance. Since the middle of November, I've watched exactly two things on HBO, "Harry Potter" and "A Beautiful Mind". Reviewing my dish bill, at $15 a month, to view 2 movies in the past three months, I've decided to cut my losses and ditch HBO.
We have a winner!
Hmmmmmm....
Interesting.......
Things must be different up there in New Yawrk....
Down Y'here in Texas.......
We'uns don lak ta talk much 'bout frien's er relatives bein' hung
(Hoss thieves and other assorted riffraff we'd jist as soon not claim 'em)
Uv course, I admit
I never seen that there TV show
(So's maybe Ah'm ah "speakin' outta turn")
And as a side issue, whenever I start feeling that the gay community is put upon, why do I always find out that they are writing junk like this?
The worst date I ever had was when my future husband accidentally lost his bankcard in the machine and I ended up paying for filing the car up.
I lead such a boring life.
I was suffering from cold and flu and I was taking alot of drug store drugs...
But I am I totally in line with what you got going on now!!!
What I'll miss most about Parker though were her wonderful heartfelt press conferences where she attacked Bush and told about her cousins and aunts who were penniless and where oh where were they going to get the money to survive, and it was all Bush's fault because he only cared for the rich and the oil companies and yaday yada yada.............
This from a priggy little bitch who together with her DUI killer husband are worth over 50 million dollars. Pathetic excuse for human beings!
Regards, Ivan
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