Sex and  the City

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Sex and  the City
Sex and  the City title card
Genre	Comedy
Camera setup	Single camera
Running time	approx. 29 minutes
Creator(s)	Darren Star
Starring	Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	HBO
Original run	June 6, 1998–February 22, 2004
No. of episodes	and  the City episodes">94
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Sex and  the City is  a popular American cable television program based on the  and  the City (novel)">novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell. it  was originally broadcast on the HBO network from 1998 until 2004.

Set in New York City, the show focused on the lives of four female best friends, three of whom are  in their early-to-mid thirties, and  one of whom, Samantha, is  in her forties (though by 2004 they have  reached their mid-to-late thirties and  forties, respectively). A sitcom with soap opera elements, the show often tackled socially relevant issues, such as the status of women in society. Sex and  the City premiered on June 6, 1998, and  the last original episode aired on February 22, 2004. A movie version of the series, which was originally supposed to have  been produced in 2004, but subsequently cancelled, is  said to be back on track.

The show was primarily filmed at New York City's Silvercup Studios and  on location in and  around Manhattan. Since it  ended, the show has been aired in syndication on networks such as TBS, The CW, WGN, and  many other local stations.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Characters 3 Episodes 4 Quotations 5 Broadcasters 6 Criticism 6.1 Elitism and  lack of diversity 6.2 Miscellaneous criticism 6.3 Response to criticism 7 Feature film 8 DVD releases 9 Awards 9.1 2004 9.2 2003 9.3 2002 9.4 2001 9.5 2000 9.6 1999 10 Soundtrack releases 11 Distribution and  syndication 12 References 13 Sources 14 External links

[edit] Overview

Carrie Bradshaw and  her three best girlfriends navigate the rocky terrain of being single, sexually active women at the turn of the new millennium. Not only did the women discuss their sexual desires and  fantasies, but they openly discussed their beliefs and  opinions pertaining to many common female issues. The show became famous for shooting scenes on the streets and  in the bars, restaurants, and  clubs of New York City, while pushing the envelope of fashion and  shattering sexual taboos.

Receiving consistent critical and  popular acclaim, it  was based on the book that was compiled from the New York Observer column "Sex and  the City" by Candace Bushnell. The first season of the show is  a free adaptation of its source material, but from the second season on, it  took on a life of its own and  went further than the book ever could. Each episode in season one featured a short montage of interviews that Carrie supposedly conducted while researching for her column. These continued through season two before being phased out. Another feature that was eventually scrapped was Carrie breaking the fourth wall (for example, looking into the camera and  speaking to the audience directly). Bradshaw would question scenarios and  ideas, asking the audience for an  opinion or  insight on different situations. The last such event occurred in episode 3 of the second season, "The Freak Show".

Season one of Sex and  the City aired on HBO from June to August 1998. Season two was broadcast from June until October,1999. Season three aired from June until October 2000. Season four was broadcast in two parts: from June until August 2001, and  then in January and  February 2002. Season five, truncated due to Parker's pregnancy, aired on HBO during the summer of 2002. The twenty episodes of the final season, season six, aired in two parts: from June until September 2003 and  during January and  February 2004.

Over its course of six seasons, "Sex and  the City" was nominated for over 50 Emmy Awards, winning seven of them. Among the Emmys the show won were two for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series (Jennifer McNamara), one for its Costumes, a trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series for its third season in 2001, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 2002 for the episode "The Real Me", and  for its final season in 2004, Emmys for Sarah Jessica Parker (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the episode "An American Girl in Paris II"), and  Cynthia Nixon (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the episodes "One" and  "Ick Factor"). it  has also been nominated for 24 Golden Globe Awards, and  won 8. Its wins included Best TV Series - Musical or  Comedy, and  Best Actress in a TV Series - Musical or  Comedy, (Sarah Jessica Parker) for three consecutive years from 2000 - 2002, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or  Movie for Kim Cattrall, and  another one for Parker.

[edit] Characters

Main article:  and  the City characters">Sex and  the City characters

• Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is  literally the voice of the show; she narrates each episode. Each episode is  structured around her train of thought while writing her weekly column, "Sex and  the City" for the fictitious newspaper, The New York Star. A member of the New York glitterati, she is  a club/bar/restaurant staple who is  known for her unique fashion sense; she violently joins together various styles into one outfit and  it is  not uncommon for her to pair inexpensive vintage pieces with high-end couture. The resulting outfits range from the ridiculous to the sublime. Throughout the six seasons Carrie meets famous people, both fictional and  non-fictional. A self-proclaimed shoe fetishist, she focuses most of her attention on journalism. She works on her PowerBook in her apartment, writing newspaper articles focusing on the different aspects of a relationship. Carrie is  also the thinker of the group. Often exceeding her spending limit in one shopping trip, it  is unclear how the modest income of a newspaper columnist could support such an  addiction. In later seasons, her essays are  collected as a book and  she begins taking assignments from Vogue and  New York Magazine. In Season 4, it  was revealed that Carrie had never before used email as she was having a hard time setting up an  account to get in touch with Aidan. Carrie does not own a printer, so it's impossible to know how she submits her columns to the fictional New York Star. it  has been suggested that she perhaps saves her columns on floppy disks and  submits her work thusly. Aidan also buys her a Zip drive in season 4 so that she can back up her work after her computer crashes. She is  never seen in a library and  does not mention printing out her work in hard copy. Carrie is  very proud of her home, a one-bedroom apartment in an  Upper East Side brownstone, which she eventually purchases, and  lives in for the run of the series.

• Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is  an art dealer with a rigid Connecticut uptight blue-blooded upbringing. She is  the most conservative and  optimistic of the group, the one who places the most emphasis on emotional love as opposed to lust, and  is always searching for her "knight in shining armor." Often scoffing at the lewder, more  libertine antics that the show presents (primarily by way of Samantha), in her own way, Charlotte presents a more  traditional attitude about relationships, usually based around "the rules" of love and  dating. Despite her conservative outlook, she has been known to make concessions (while married) that even surprised her sexually freer girlfriends (such as her level of dirty talk, oral sex in public and  "tuchus-lingus"). She gives up her career shortly after her first marriage, divorces upon irreconcilable differences around in vitro fertilization and  receives a Park Avenue apartment in the divorce settlement. She eventually remarries to her less  than perfect, but good-hearted divorce lawyer, Harry Goldenblatt after converting to Judaism. Charlotte was a star all through her academic and  social life. A "straight A" student who eventually attended Smith College to major in Art History with a minor in Finance. Throughout the show it  is also revealed that Charlotte was voted homecoming queen, prom queen, "most popular," student body president, track team captain, and  was active as a teen model.

• Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is  a career-minded lawyer with extremely cynical views on relationships and  men. A Harvard University graduate from Philadelphia with 2 siblings, she is  Carrie's best friend, confidante, and  voice of reason. In the early seasons, she is  portrayed as masculine and  borderline misandric, but this image softens over the years, particularly after she becomes pregnant by her on again-off again  boyfriend, Steve Brady, whom she eventually marries. Miranda is  nobody's fool and  is smart enough to demand the "short hair discount." The birth of her son, Brady Hobbes, brings up new issues for her Type A, workaholic personality, but she soon finds a way to balance career, being single and  motherhood. Of the four women, she is  the first to purchase an  apartment, and  later a home in Brooklyn. Miranda is  obsessed with Jules and  Mimi, an  imaginary soap opera inside Sex and  the City. The show first appears in Season 6, Episode 2. The small snippets shown have  led to it  being described as a "bi-racial sexually charged fictional BBC soap opera", and  the damage of Miranda's TiVo by her cleaner, Magda, played a role in one episode. Miranda also has a love for hair dye, food, and  gossip.

• Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the oldest of the group, is  an independent publicist and  a seductress who avoids emotional involvement at all costs, while satisfying every possible carnal desire imagineable while never being affected by Sexually Transmitted Disease. She believes that she has had "hundreds" of soulmates and  insists that her sexual partners leave, "an hour after I climax." Throughout the course of the show, we learn Samantha's glamorous, impenetrable facade and  dismissive approach to love actually hides a sensitive, caring heart. Though she refuses to drop her mask, privately she struggles with the defection of hotel magnate and  philanderer Richard Wright and  goes through emotional turmoil to avoid becoming attached to actor/model/waiter Smith Jerrod. The latter effort was to shelter herself from potential heartbreak and  in that effort she ultimately fails. Aside from these, Samantha also has a number of other real relationships in the show, albeit far less  than the number of her casual sex encounters. However, this is  hardly exclusive to Samantha, though as a rule, hers are  far more  unconventional and  frequent than those of her friends. For example, Samantha has a (relatively) long term relationship with a lesbian artist named Maria. In Season 3, she moves from her full-service Upper East Side apartment to an  expensive loft in the then-burgeoning Meatpacking District. In Season 6, Samantha's character further develops when she is  unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer when visiting a plastic surgeon for a breast implant consultation. an  operation, chemotherapy, and  her powerful will help Samantha to beat cancer, and  it becomes clear the experience has endowed her with a new perspective (and a new excuse to be fashionable, as she thereafter begins wearing all manner of wigs, hats, and  bandanas).

[edit] Episodes

Main article:  and  the City episodes">List of Sex and  the City episodes

[edit] Quotations

The following are  quotations from the TV special, Sex and  The City: A Farewell, that aired introducing the final episode:

• Michael Patrick King, Executive Producer:

  "People thought, oh it's just about sex or  it's just about fashion. and  then slowly over the years people start to see it's really about love ... and  relationships ... and  sex ... and  basically the battlefield of trying to be in love—whether it  be with another person or  with yourself."

• Sarah Jessica Parker:

  "What the show has to have, and  has had to have  in order to survive six years, is  a soul."

• Kim Cattrall:

  "The show is  a valentine to being single."

• Cynthia Nixon:

  "These women would never wear the same outfit twice."

• David Eigenberg:

  "They were honest about sex, they were honest about the humor of sex."

• Kim Cattrall:

  "Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you; now it  means you're pretty sexy and  you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be...and who you want to spend it  with."

[edit] Broadcasters

Television ratings for Sex and  the City
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The United States cable channel HBO was the original broadcaster, and  TBS ran reruns after the series ended. In Canada, the show airs on Bravo! Canada and  Citytv Toronto, and  in Germany it  is shown on Pro7.

In the United Kingdom and  the Republic of Ireland, it  was shown uncut on Network Television station Channel 4 and  its digital sister channel E4 broadcast episodes of Sex and  the City, while older episodes are  rerun on Paramount Comedy 1. In Poland the show and  its several reruns were aired by the public TV service TVP 2. In France the show is  shown on M6, in the Netherlands it  is aired by NET 5, and  in Sweden it  is aired by TV3 and  ZTV. In Italy the show airs on La7 and  on the cable channel Paramount Comedy. In Belgium the show used to run on VT4, later on Vitaya and  Vijf TV. In Spain, it  was aired by Canal+ España, Antena 3 and  Cosmopolitan TV. In Finland it  was broadcast on MTV3. In Portugal, it  was aired on free-to-air SIC TV, with reruns on cable channel SIC Mulher. In Norway it  was broadcast on TV3 and  ZTV Norway.

In South Africa, Sex and  the City was aired uncensored on SABC3, a channel of the government-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation. In Israel it  was broadcast on Channel 2 by Reshet. In Russia, the show was aired by NTV Russia. In Romania, the show was aired by Pro TV and  later by the sister channels Acasa TV and  Pro Cinema. HBO Romania also aired all seasons. In Bulgaria, Sex and  the City is  aired by Nova Television. HBO Bulgaria also aired the show. In Turkey it  is broadcast by ComedyMax channel.

In Australia it  was broadcast on the Nine Network, late at night. Rerun rights were sold to Network Ten. Australian subscription channel W airs two episodes each weeknight. In New Zealand, the show aired on TV3.

In Indonesia it  was broadcast on Trans TV; it  now airs on antv.

In México, the show airs in Spanish on TV Azteca. In Chile, it  is aired subtitled at first by HBO Latin America, but later it  was moved to Cinecanal and  The Film Zone, and  in Latin American dub by RED TV. In Brazil, it  was aired by Multishow and  FOX channels. Multishow exhibits two versions of the series, the standard and  the light versions. The light versions have  some dialogs and  scenes removed or  replaced by "more polite" versions. Multishow also replaces the original subtitles with their own translated subtitles, usually in a lower quality than the originals.

In Japan, the show is  aired by Lala.tv. Korea was one of the biggest TV broadcast nations, with Catch On, OCN and  On Style all playing the series over the Korean cable network. In Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, and  Pakistan the show airs on HBO Asia (season 1-6). Hong Kong's TVB Pearl also aired the show at midnight before, while later, TVB Drama, the pay TV channel of the same company, rerun the show on Sunday night. Sex and  the City was banned in Singapore until July 2004, when the government allowed the television series to be aired on cable after being censored. In the Philippines, the show airs on HBO Asia while its reruns are  being aired by free TV RPN-9. In Taiwan the show airs on Videoland MAX-TV and  also airs on HBO Asia. In Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and  Denmark the series can be seen on TV3. In Hungary, where the show aired on HBO and  Viasat 3, the latter only showing episodes up to the fifth season. After a number of reruns, Viasat has moved the show to an  earlier time and, as per the rules and  standards of broadcasting in Hungary, has recut the episodes (removing, among others, almost all references to genitals, a number of sexual conversations and  non-heterosexual kisses) to be able to fit its rating to an  equivalent of PG-13, resulting in many deleted scenes and  indecipherable storylines.

[edit] Criticism

Some have  criticized the show for pandering to audiences with little more  than "perversion and  sex." While fans of the show recognize these are  important elements, they also point out that the show focuses largely on relationships. MADtv parodied the show as "Sluts in the City". The HBO slogan "It's not TV, it's HBO" became "It's not TV, it's porn (with Emmys)" MADtv's Michael McDonald appears as Carrie in drag with a visible crotch bulge. Jennifer Aniston on SNL portrayed her with a hideous fake nose. Other sketch shows have  made fun of Miranda being color blind for her bright hair dye color and  the women confusing sex with shoes.

[ and  lack of diversity">edit] Elitism and  lack of diversity

Sex and  the City has been criticized for focusing exclusively on wealthy, white characters and  ignoring non-whites, the poor, and  those living in New York's poorer neighborhoods; the characters themselves have  been accused of being elitist. The show took place almost exclusively in Manhattan, often ignoring the 4 other boroughs in New York City (Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and  Staten Island). [1]^{[citation needed]} On the few occasions when the other boroughs WERE mentioned, it  was with disdain. Carrie and  Miranda maligned Brooklyn in particular on several occasions during the show's run.

[edit] Miscellaneous criticism

The female main characters' fixation with sex and  penis size has been criticized for not being aligned with the views of real-life women.

The characters' fixation on penis size has also been criticized for promoting poor body image in men. The characters have  been criticized for being shallow and  superficial[2]. For instance, in "Old Dogs, New Dicks", Charlotte is  repulsed by a man's lack of circumcision and  calls it  "sweet" when he undergoes circumcision on her behalf. The show has also been seen as irresponsible in the way it  portrays alcohol and  tobacco use as glamourous, and  it shows the Carrie Bradshaw character smoking in places where it's prohibited, such as the Staten Island Ferry. The women sip candy-colored cocktails such as Cosmopolitans as a prop and  affect of sophistication. an  issue of FHM magazine listed Carrie Bradshaw as one of the most annoying characters in television history. it  asked, "Supposedly she's become a feminist icon. Does that mean that all women should aspire to be materialistc, cocktail swilling homewreckers?"

[edit] Response to criticism

Fans of the show say that Sex and  the City is  a realistic portrayal of the sexual behavior and  lifestyles of many urban Americans.[3] an  unlikely supporter of the show is  author and  Latter Day Saint Orson Scott Card. Card stated that although the crudity of the series left him numb, the show contained some of the best writing on television. [4]

[edit] Feature film

Although the producers originally cancelled plans for a feature film after reported cast conflict, November news articles were flooded with rumors that the movie will indeed take place. Kristin Davis (Charlotte York) told reporters that she would love to make a movie. Kristin also told viewers of The View that the original storyline for the movie contained a scene in which Charlotte York flies to China in order to adopt a baby and  subsequently becomes pregnant. Preparations are  already underway for a Sex and  the City feature film. HBO is  currently in negotiations with executive producer Michael Patrick King and  the cast from the TV series of the same name. ^[1]

[edit] DVD releases

All six seasons of Sex and  the City have  been released commercially on DVD. They have  been released officially on region 1 (Americas), region 2 (Europe & Middle East), region 3 (Korea) and  region 4 (Oceania) formats, but illegal bootleg editions have  also surfaced for region 3 (Thailand) as well as region 0 (Universal) and  can even be found on eBay. In addition to their region encoding, releases vary depending on which region they were released in. Region 2 DVD's of Sex and  the City have  been criticized by some fans for having little or  no special features, but region 1 editions have  included director commentary, cast interviews and  more.

In addition to standard single season DVD Boxsets of the show, limited edition collectors' editions have  also been released that include all 6 seasons in one complete set. Even these vary between region 1 2 and  4. While Europe got a complete set that came with special 'shoe box' packaging (a reference to Sarah Jessica Parker's character's love for shoes in the show), the USA and  Canada version came packaged in a more  traditional fold-out suede case and  with an  additional bonus DVD including many special features. Oceania's edition came packaged in a beauty case.

A problem with the single season cases of Sex and  the City is  that they tend to be very flimsy; the all-plastic packaging splits easily.

As well as missing out on some special features, many fans in Europe had trouble with the region 2 edition of the season 1 DVD. Unfortunately, the show was not converted into a PAL video signal, and  remained in its original American NTSC format. This caused some compatibility problems with some European television sets and  DVD players. All subsequent Region 2 DVD releases of the programme were appropriately transferred to PAL video and  season 1 has since been re-released in PAL format. In Europe, Sex and  the City boxed sets were released through Paramount Pictures (whose parent Viacom interestingly onced owned HBO's rival Showtime, before the CBS Corporation split at the end of 2005) - who owned at once, certain rights to the programme's broadcast as well -- it  was probably because of Paramount's "no-extras" policy that the region 2 DVDs were criticized. American and  Canadian DVDs were released through the programme's original broadcasters, HBO. In Australia, single editions have  been released, where each disc is  sold separately. In Korea, due to the popularity of the show, a complete, six-season, special DVD shoebox set was released--600 limited edition sets in 2005; 850 limited edition sets in 2006--at suggested retail price of $300 (US). All of them sold out immediately.

Selected episodes are  also available as part of the Sex and  the City Essentials DVD collection. These are  four separately-packaged discs containing three selected episodes that fit a common theme.

• The Best of Lust: Contains the episodes "The Fuck Buddy", "Running with Scissors", and  " and  the Hare (SATC episode)">The Turtle and  the Hare".

• The Best of Mr Big - Contains the episodes "Sex and  the City", " and  the City (SATC episode)">Ex and  the City", and  "I Heart NY".

• The Best of Romance: Contains the episodes "Baby, Talk is  Cheap", "Hop, Skip and  a Week ", and  "An American Girl in Paris (Part Deux)".

• The Best of Breakups - Contains the episodes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", "I Love a Charade", and  "The Post-it Always Sticks Twice".

[edit] Awards

[edit] 2004

• Emmy® Awards

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sarah Jessica Parker

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Cynthia Nixon

[edit] 2003

• American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards

Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television - Episode: "Luck Be an  Old Lady"; Wendey Stanzler, A.C.E.

• American Women in Radio and  Television (AWRT)

Gracie Allen Award

National/Network/Syndication Award Winners Entertainment Program/Comedy

• Emmy® Awards

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series - Casting: Jennifer McNamara

• Golden Globe® Awards

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or  Motion Picture Made For Television - Kim Cattrall

• Makeup Artists and  Hair Stylists Guild Awards

Best Contemporary Hairstyling for a Television Series - Wayne Herndon, Donna Fischetto, Suzana Neziri

• Utku TV Awards

Best Performance by an  Actress-Sarah Jessica Parker

[edit] 2002

• ACE Eddie Awards

Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television - Michael Berenbaum, "The Real Me"

• CINE Golden Eagle Film and  Video Competition

CINE Golden Eagle Award - Episode: "Easy Come, Easy Go"

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival

Honorable Mention

• Primetime Emmy® Awards

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series - Episode: The Real Me; Michael Patrick King

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series - Jennifer McNamara

Outstanding Costumes for a Comedy Series - Episode: "Defining Moments" (Patricia Field, Rebecca Weinberg)

• Golden Globes®

Best Television Series: Musical or  Comedy

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Television Series: Musical or  Comedy - Sarah Jessica Parker

Golden Satellite Awards

Best Television Series: Comedy or  Musical

Gracie Allen Award: American Women in Radio and  Television

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Monte Carlo Television Festival

Golden Nymph Award: Outstanding Producer of the Year, Comedy

Outstanding Actress of the Year - Sarah Jessica Parker

• New York Festivals

Gold WorldMedal: Situation Comedy - Episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

• Producers Guild Golden Laurel Awards (PGA)

Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television, Comedy - Michael Patrick King, Cindy Chupack, John P. Melfi & Sarah Jessica Parker Outstanding Performance by an  Ensemble In a Comedy Series - Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker

• Shine Awards

Comedy Episode - Episode "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda"

• WIN Awards

TV Comedy Series Actress - Cynthia Nixon, Episode: "My Motherboard, My Self"

[edit] 2001

• Gracie Allen Award

American Women in Radio and  Television - Episode: "Attack of the 5'10" Woman"

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival

Honorable Mention - Costume Designers Guild

Excellence in Costume Design Contemporary for Television - Patricia Field

• Primetime Emmy® Awards

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Entertainment Industries Council Prism Awards

Prism Award for Television, Series Comedy Storyline - Episode: "Quitting Smoking"

Commendation - Sex and  the City: "What Goes Around Comes Around"

• Golden Globes®

Best Television Series: Musical or  Comedy

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Television Series- Musical or  Comedy - Sarah Jessica Parker

• Golden Satellite Awards

Best Television Series - Comedy or  Musical

• Makeup Artist & Hairstylist Guild Awards

Best Contemporary Makeup for Television (for a single episode of a Regular Series, Sitcom, Drama or  Daytime) - Judy Chin; Episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Best Contemporary Hair Styling - Television (for a single episode of a Regular Series, Sitcom, Drama or  Daytime) - Michelle Johnson; Episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

• National Council on Family Relations Media Awards

First Place, STD/AIDS - Episode: "Running with Scissors"

• Producers Guild Golden Laurel Awards (PGA)

Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award - Episodic TV Comedy

• Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG)

Outstanding Performance By an  Actress in a Comedy Series - Sarah Jessica Parker

• TV Cares

Ribbon of Hope Award

• Women's Image Network WIN Femme Film Festival

WIN Award - TV Series Actress - Cynthia Nixon; Episode: "My Motherboard, My Self"

[edit] 2000

• Gracie Allen Awards: American Women in Radio and  Television

Gracie Allen Award - Episode: "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women"

• CINE Golden Eagle Awards

Golden Eagle Award - Episode: "Ex and  the City"

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival

Honorable Mention

• Golden Globe® Awards

Best Television Series: Musical or  Comedy

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Television Series: Musical or  Comedy - Sarah Jessica Parker

• Media Project SHINE Awards

Scene Stealer

[edit] 1999

• CINE Gold Eagle Film and  Video Competition

CINE Golden Eagle Award - Episode: "They Shoot Single People Don't They?"

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival - Chris Awards

The Bronze Plaque

• New York Festivals - Television Programming and  Promotion Competition

Silver World Medal: Situation Comedy - Episode: "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?"

• Women In Film

Lucy Award

• WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival

Gold Award in the Television & Cable Production: TV Series: Comedy Division - Episode: "Secret Sex"

[edit] Soundtrack releases

There have  been several CD Albums released to accompany the series Sex and  the City. These releases span various record labels and  some are  even unofficial. The two albums from Irma Records are  seen to be the best because they contain tracks used in the show's actual soundtrack that are  difficult to find elsewhere. The other two releases have  little or  no tracks that appear on the programme's actual soundtrack.

The title theme song was written by Douglas J. Cuomo.

•  and  the City: Music from the HBO Series">Sex and  the City - Soundtrack [Import]

2000/2001/2002

Sire Records

13 Chart Hits - Including the Main Theme from the Show

• Sex and  the City - Official Soundtrack

March 1, 2004

Sony TV

2 Disc Set - 36 Hits.

• Irma at Sex and  the City - Part 1 - Daylight Session

April 19, 2004

Irma Records

2 Disc Set - Part of a 2 Part Collection. Ambient and  Chilled Sounds from the Show's Soundtrack

• Irma at Sex and  the City - Part 2 - Nightlife Session

April 19, 2004

Irma Records

2 Disc Set - Part of a 2 Part Collection. House and  Electronica Sounds from the Show's Soundtrack

[ and  syndication">edit] Distribution and  syndication

Sex and  the City is  currently syndicated in the United States by HBO corporate sibling (under Time Warner) Warner Bros. Television Distribution. The international rights to the series currently rest with CBS Paramount Television, the successor-in-interest to Paramount's television unit (through its acquisition of original international distributor Rysher Entertainment) now owned by CBS Corporation.

[edit] References

• Amy Sohn (2004). Sex and  the City: Kiss and  Tell, Updated Edition. ISBN 0-7434-5730-7

[edit] Sources

[edit] External links

• Home of HBO's Sex and  the City
• TBS.com Sex and  the City

Sex and  the City

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