Tales of the City is a
1993 television miniseries based on the first of the
Tales of the City series of novels by
Armistead Maupin.
To date, the first three books in the sequence have been adapted into
television miniseries; the first,
Tales of the City, was produced by the UK's
Channel 4 and was first screened in the UK in 1993, then shown on
PBS in the US in January, 1994. Channel 4 eventually teamed up with American cable network
Showtime to produce the sequel,
More Tales of the City, which premiered in the US and UK in 1998. The third installment of the series,
Further Tales of the City was produced by Showtime (without Channel 4) and was originally aired in the US on Showtime in May 2001.