Sex and the City is an American television romantic sitcom created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of 94 episodes. Throughout its six-year run, the show received contributions from various producers, writers and directors, perhaps most significantly from Michael Patrick King. It starred Mikhail Baryshnikov as Aleksandr Petrovsky, Carrie’s boyfriend, ‘The Russian’, in nine episodes.