Parker, HBO forge new relationship

“Sex and the City” is over, but Sarah Jessica Parker and HBO are still an item.

The star of the hit HBO comedy that ended last year has signed a two-year deal to develop and produce programming for the premium cable channel through her production company.

Playing swinging single Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City,” Parker earned Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. The 1998-2004 series received three Golden Globes and an Emmy for best comedy.

ABC elects Davis

ABC has cast Geena Davis in a proposed series about the first female president of the United States.

The Oscar winner (and former Olympic archery hopeful) will play the title role in the two-hour pilot “Commander in Chief,” from writer-director Rod Lurie (“Line of Fire.”)

Davis returns to ABC four years after “The Geena Davis Show,” which aired without much success in 2000-01.

She won her Oscar in 1989 for “The Accidental Tourist” and was nominated again three years later for “Thelma & Louise.”

Smits wins ‘West Wing’ vote

So far as viewers of “The West Wing” are concerned, it’s Jimmy Smits over Alan Alda in a landslide.

In a nationwide poll of “West Wing” watchers, Democratic Rep. Matt Santos of Texas, played by Smits, topped Republican Sen. Arnold Vinick of California, played by Alda, by 44 percent to 28 percent in the race to replace outgoing president Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen).

While Smits’ and Alda’s characters were tied among men, each getting 35 percent of the vote, Santos held a commanding lead among women, 53 percent to 22 percent.