There May Be More 'Sex'
This weekend may not be the swan song for "Sex and the City."
The series' top executive, Michael Patrick King, and the show's cast is in discussions with HBO about a movie that would continue the saga of the four New York City friends, HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker said Thursday.
Becker would not comment specifically on a Variety report that HBO is trying to wrap up deals with series stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis to bring their roles to the big screen.
While movie adaptations of popular TV shows are fairly common, it's far more unusual to bring the original cast of a TV show to a movie played in theaters.
One notable exception was the movies with the casts of both the original "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"Sex" won't even be gone from the small screen: Edited versions of the HBO series will begin appearing on cable's TBS later this year.
Sunday's finale promises to be a fight to the finish for the heart of Carrie Bradshaw.
Hanging in the balance is not just the man (Aleksandr Petrovsky or Mr. Big?) or the place (Carrie's beloved Manhattan, or Paris, where she defected last week?), but also the feelings of fans after six randy seasons on the town with sex columnist Carrie and her three gal pals.
"I think they should make a movie and [Carrie] should end up with Matthew Broderick," said Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White on CBS News' The Early Show.
In real life, Parker is married to Broderick.
Is there enough there for a movie?
"I think the show can probably do no wrong," said Dave Zinczenko, the editor-in-chief of Men's Health magazine, on The Early Show. "I think no matter what they do, people want to watch."
Of course, what made the show so much more than a hit was, in part, its knack for raising questions the viewers were already asking themselves — or eager to.
"I see a movie, but it might lose some of what's fun about the show, the process and debating of the issues in their lives," said White. "They may not be able to put that in there."
Based on real-life sex columnist Candace Bushnell and created by Darren Star, best known then for concocting the Fox soap "Melrose Place," "Sex" caught on with its frank, funny look at four single women hitting the clubs, the shops and, frequently, the sack.
"As much as I'll miss making it, I really think I'll miss watching it every bit as much," Nixon told CBS News Early Show co-anchor René Syler Friday.
Even Nixon will have to watch Sunday night to find out how the series ends.
"They shot three different endings, three different coffee shop debriefings of at least what's happening with Carrie, and they've sort of kept our story lines from each other," she said.
But, of course, she knows what happens to Miranda.
"I can tell you that Miranda has fully embraced marriage and motherhood and Brooklyn and house ownership," she said, "but I think in this last episode her happy family kind of hits a real bump in the road and she really has to make some hard choices."
Besides now looking for her next acting job, and facing the possibility of going on location away from her children, Nixon will have to start shopping for clothes for herself: She'd been allowed to keep Miranda's wardrobe.
"I'm very thrilled with the clothes," she said. "I don't know what I'll do when my source for clothing dries up."