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.
Sex is the last thing that comes to mind when one gets a look at the gnarly looking hags on that show.
Somebody at HBO is on drugs.
Look at pics of the two. If they weren't separated at birth, they sure have the same DNA somewhere...
Not necessary. Just turn Stephen Ambrose's "Pegasus Bridge" into a film next. It's about the British paratroopers on D-Day.
Regards, Ivan
By means of a wormhole and several minutes of explained technobabble, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's ship, the USS Enterprise exited the wormhole near an unrecognizable desert planet. Having forseen this occurance, Emperor Paul Maud'dib and the amassed armadas of the Landsraad were there waiting for them.
"I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation starship Enterprise".
Maud'dib answered "We know who you are and know about the forbidden technology aboard your ship. Turn around, leave our universe, and never come back.....or suffer the unpleasant consequences".
Captain Picard replied "Come now, surely we can reach an understanding. We would like to study your culture. In OUR universe we talk things over and celebrate our differences by -".
Maud'dib interrupted by saying "Well in our universe we DON'T" and the armada blew the Enterprise to smithereens. The End.
I know it has nothing to do with this thread, but it still gives me a laugh.
Not necessarily in that order, of course.
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, TV is freed at last from this rubbish! - Ivan
Amen. Praise the Lord and pass the remote.
But hey! What do I know? To repeat myself from another thread from some time back, I read (or tried to read) Candace Bushnell when I subscribed to the New York Observer. Phillies and Mets fans! Remember Lenny Dykstra and his chewing tobacco? What he did to tobacco Candace did to sex. EWWWW! YUCKKKKK!! GROSS!!!!!
Talk about O-VER-RA-TED! (clap, clap, clapclapclap)
You'll love it. It's absolutely great.
Sortof like Jacko's dilemma. Maybe Matthew can hop in that Dino Ferrari from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and hold the baby up high as it clears the bump doin' 90 in honor of Jacko's Hollywood tradition.
Well, duh!
I'm sorry, but the cosmopolitans were the tip off. Most NYC women drink vodka & tonic, or some such.
The cocktails were far too girly to be drank by women.
I'd reach over and ascertain what kind of genitalia she(?) was packin'.
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