- Sex and the City started in 1998 on the cable channel HBO. It lasted six seasons and ended in 2004. In 2008, the Sex and the City movie premiered and made $26.93 million in the United States and Canada during its first day of showing. It made over $408,921,925 total world-wide.
- The show focuses on three thirty-something women and one forty-something woman looking for love, sex and their identity in a big city. Many of the episodes delved into social worries and concerns of women approaching middle age. Safe sex, unexpected pregnancy, multiple sex partners, cancer, dementia in a parent, motherhood and menopause were all themes that were pondered and lived by the four main characters, Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte.
- The show is based in New York City. Many of the storylines encompass themes that are original to the city, including, how Californians are different from New Yorkers, smoking in New York and how to cope with living in New York.
- Sex and the City features Candace Bushnell's alter ego, Carrie Bradshaw, talking about the themes of the show. During the first two seasons, Carrie, and other characters, would speak directly to the audience. After the third episode in the second season, the point of view shifted. Internal thoughts were then only shared by Carrie in a voice over monologue throughout the episodes.
- The show had 94 episodes between August 23, 1998 and February 22, 2004. The shortest season was Season 5 with only eight episodes between July 21, 2002 and September 8, 2002. Its longest season was Season 6 with 20 episodes between June 22, 2003 and February 22, 2004.
