The editing arguably has the most impact on Samantha, the lusty publicist who's rarely met a man or an expletive she didn't like. "There's no way you can excise her," Cattrall feels, "she is so fundamentally a part of this group. She's a little more 'out there' in the sense of being uninhibited, but you need that voice. I knew some things wouldn't make the cut. There are moments where the rhythm of the language isn't the same, just because you can't say what we originally said. There are compromises, but I feel what the show is about and stands for is more important than any specific bit."
The "Sex and the City" faithful should note TBS will show episodes out of their original order for the first week. "I've been looking at projections of how many more viewers we might have," Cattrall says, "and I think we'll get an idea of what it's like to be on something like 'Friends,' which was in an incredible amount of households for 10 years. It's one thing to think about HBO and the 'Sex and the City' DVDs, but commercial TV has a much farther reach."
Since ending work on the series four months ago, Cattrall has had emotions she claims are "tough in some ways and kind of wonderful in others. Saying goodbye to a show that meant so much to all of us, and to people who have been like another family, was hard and transitional. I still fool myself into thinking we're just on hiatus.
"The other side," Cattrall adds, "is that I've started a production company, and I'm full-throttle into our first project, which is a documentary about the history of sexuality. I'm also getting a lot of scripts from people I haven't worked with before, so I don't have a lot of time to reminisce. It's a balance of being excited about the new and letting go of the old."
