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Sex and the City - it all ends in tears (TV FREE AT LAST ALERT)
The Daily Telegraph ^
| January 9, 2003
| Oliver Poole
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: end; hbo; tawdry; tv
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I've seen this show once and utterly hated it. Into the dustbin with it!
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:04:38 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Delmarksman; Sparta; Toirdhealbheach Beucail; TopQuark; TexKat; Iowa Granny; vbmoneyspender; ...
Bump!
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:04:52 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
I liked the series.
I think mainly because Sarah Jessica Parker wears SUCH pretty shoes! :-)
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:07:49 PM PST
by
Happygal
(Shoe-aholic-amaniac!)
To: MadIvan
Sarah Jessica Parker falls into the category of one of life's most overrated celebrities.
To: MadIvan
It was a good if funny look at the battle of the sexes in New York City. There are other shows much better on HBO and The Sopranos stands heads and shoulders above Sex And The City in excellence. Every one should check out The Shield on FOX cable - its gotten terrific reviews.
To: MadIvan
bump and ditto.
To: Happygal
I think mainly because Sarah Jessica Parker wears SUCH pretty shoes! :-) To each their own, darling, but I can't help but think of what would happen whenever anyone would say "Frau Blucher" in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" whenever Sarah Jessica Parker is mentioned.
Sound of a distant horse whinnying
Love, Ivan
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:09:01 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
I'm proud to say I've NEVER seen this show. I'm also proud to say I don't subscribe to hbo.
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:09:25 PM PST
by
mombonn
To: MadIvan
I found the show rather trifling & frivolous, but only watched a couple times because Sarah Jessica Parker looks the spitting image of my sister...
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:09:57 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
To: goldstategop
The best thing HBO ever did, and I found this on my holiday, was "Band of Brothers" - I liked it so much I bought the DVD box set to bring back to England.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:10:09 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Yup, Ivan, and it also was yet another of those shows which, if roles were reversed and male characters were talking that way about females, would never have seen a second episode. "Standards and Practices" long ago gave way to "Double Standards and Practices." Hope all is well on the Island.
To: MadIvan
"We're watching "Nookie in New York", a show about four single women who sit around talking like gay men"--The Simpsons.
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:10:57 PM PST
by
Hugin
To: Paul Atreides
DITTO
To: MadIvan
What do you get when you cross the Sopranos, Sex in the City, and Queer as Folk?
To: mombonn
As they say on the MadTV takeoff Sluts and the City: "HBO. It's not TV . . . it's porn!
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:12:09 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: bribriagain
What do you get when you cross the Sopranos, Sex in the City, and Queer as Folk? Nothing I want to see, I assure you.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:12:37 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
I tried watching once. I failed.
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:12:55 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: MadIvan
The phonies that these actresses played gave real slatterns a bad name.
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:12:56 PM PST
by
ingeborg
To: bribriagain
What do you get when you cross the Sopranos, Sex in the City, and Queer as Folk?I dunno. What DO you get?
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posted on
01/08/2003 5:13:02 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(This tagline available, Freepmail me for rates)
To: Happygal
Happy one, wait 'til you see the spin-off, Shoes and the City, about a group of too-cool foot-fetishists! It's socko, baby!
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