Which female hasn’t at some point compared themselves to one of the characters from Sex and the City? Drank one too many cocktails last night and ended up with a mystery man? Samantha. Find yourself daydreaming about the importance of chemistry? Carrie. Can’t wait to get married and have babies. Charlotte. And as for Miranda, well no one really wanted to be her anyway.

From the start though, viewers were hooked on their dramatic love stories and luxury lives. Some even turned the fantasy into reality with credit card debts to match in an effort to keep up with Carrie’s Jimmy Choo fetish. Fresh research from Wilkins Kennedy attributes a recent soar in female bankruptcies to the influence of this ‘Sex and the City lifestyle’.

With this impact, a testament to the show’s highly accessible characters, it won’t be forgotten. No wonder it ran for six series, was nominated for a staggering 50 Emmy awards (oh, and might just have been a minor factor in the credit crisis of 2008.)