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TheTwoCents 2007 Review - Shows That Left Us
Whether they left on their own (King of Queens) or were shut down before even a second episode aired (Viva Laughlin) here is a list of shows that bowed out over the last year. Why Did You Leave Us? The Sopranos They left us in the dark, in every definition of the word. As Tony and his family sat in that diner and the screen went to black, we all wondering what could have happened. (After we all got off the phone with our cable providers that is.) Kidnapped King of Queens Nashville ...   [read the full post]

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Rate Review The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 2 — See ItToday!

Original at nikolas external link    Tue, Aug 19    1 related articles    via Google Blogs external link

By nikolas8588 Last year, Tony Soprano cheated death when he was shot by his now institutionalized Uncle Junior. While Tony continues to muse about his second chance at life, he faces a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, ...

Rate Postcard From Beijing: Tony on the Tube

Original at New York Times external link    Mon, Aug 18    via Google News external link

 United States - With homage to lyrics by A3, the British group that made the opening song on The Sopranos.) With the Olympics going on without me, I switched on the ...

Sunday, Aug 17

 

Rate Music Review: Mad Men- Music From The Series, Vol. 1

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Aug 17    via Google News external link

 OH - And given Weiner’s background working on David Chase’s The Sopranos which changed the way that music was woven into a storyline (just in that tremendous ...

Saturday, Aug 16

 

Rate The Sopranos: Music From The HBO Original Series (1999-2007)

Original at SearcH Movie Download external link    Sat, Aug 16    via Google Blogs external link

By SearchMovieDownload 01. Woke Up This Moring (Chosen One Mix) - A3 02. It’s Bad You Know - RL Burnside 03. It Was A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra 04. Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan 05. Inside Of Me - Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul ...

Thursday, Aug 14

 

Rate Mobsters, molls, moonshine

Original at Arkansas Democrat Gazette external link    Thu, Aug 14    via Google News external link

 AR - Raines also credits the television show The Sopranos for the museum’s early success. “I don’t think we could do this without The Sopranos happening,” he ...

Wednesday, Aug 13

 

Rate Fitting Network TV for a Toe Tag

Original at Wired News external link    Wed, Aug 13    4 related articles    via Google News external link

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 - A&E spent big money to buy reruns of HBO's The Sopranos because it wanted to be seen as the kind of network that would air a show like The Sopranos . ...

Rate Saving TV

Original at Conde Nast Portfolio external link    Wed, Aug 13    4 related articles    via Google Blogs external link

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A&E spent big money to buy reruns of HBO’s The Sopranos because it wanted to be seen as the kind of network that would air a show like The Sopranos. But it’s not; it’s the kind of network that would air reruns of The Sopranos and take ...

Tuesday, Aug 12

 

Rate New DVD releases include 'The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season'

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Tue, Aug 12    via Google News external link

 PA - Aug 12, 2008 By Garrett Conti The majority of HBO viewers would have no problem pointing to "The Sopranos" as the best show to ever run on the cable outlet's airwaves. ...

Monday, Aug 11

 

Rate 'Lost' Stars Renegotiating Their Contracts

Original at The Tail Section external link    Mon, Aug 11    via Boxxet Collection

Negotiations like this are perfectly normal in Hollywood, so it comes as no surprise that Fox and Lilly would like a bit more cash for their last two years on the show.  To compare their salaries to other hit shows, the ladies on Desperate Housewives pull in about $440,000 an episode, James G...

Sunday, Aug 10

 

Rate Television Review Diddy, Tiffany and Luke: Celebreality Triple-Header

Original at New York Times external link    Sun, Aug 10    via Google News external link

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 United States - Aug 10, 2008 The show it is most reminiscent of, in some ways, is “The Sopranos,” with Mr. Campbell as a more avuncular Tony, forced by his profession to hang out at ...

Rate DVD: Brooklyn Rules

Original at thevoidmovies (WordPress) external link    Sun, Aug 10    via entourage « WordPress.com Tag Feed external link

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By Movies@the-void Imagine a Mean Streets rip off starring Freddie Prinze Jr - that pretty much sums up this routine tale of friendship in 1980s Brooklyn that comes "from the writer of The Sopranos." A clichéd story set against a world of mob violence that only really becomes relevant at key plot points.

Saturday, Aug 9

 

Rate TV Obits: Brillstein, Taylor, Scott, Insul

Original at TV Squad external link    Sat, Aug 9    via Boxxet Collection

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By Bob Sassone Bernie Brillstein: He was a veteran manager and producer who not only produced such shows as NewsRadio, Just Shoot Me, Mr. Show, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Heist, ALF, and The Martin Short Show, he helped bring Saturday Night Live and The Sopranos to television, and helped the careers o...

Friday, Aug 8

 

Rate Matt Weiner of Mad Men: The TV Squad Interview

Original at TV Squad external link    Fri, Aug 8    11 related articles    via Google Blogs external link

By Allison Waldman The Sopranos' creator David Chase read it and hired him. After copping a couple of Emmys for his work on that HBO drama, Weiner finally got his spec script sold. Now, Mad Men has earned 16 Emmy nominations and Matt Weiner is working on ...

Rate Matt Weiner of Mad Men: The TV Squad Interview

Original at TV Squad external link    Fri, Aug 8    11 related articles    via Google News external link

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Thursday, Aug 7

 

Rate Bernie Brillstein Dies

Original at The TV Zone external link    Thu, Aug 7    2 related articles    via Boxxet Collection

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Q: You speak in your book about the wasteful way that television networks decide to pick their shows each season. They use pilots, which cost a lot to make and many never see the light of day. Brillstein: I had a great time. Look how lucky I am. Look how lucky.

Tuesday, Aug 5

 

Rate The Sopranos (Season 1) DVD Review

Original at rooster external link    Tue, Aug 5    via Google Blogs external link

By rooster1669 Golden Globe performer James Gandolfini plays the title role of Tony Soprano, a middle-aged father of two, loving husband, and successful businessman. BBW stands for Big Beautiful Woman.This does not necessarily mean a fat woman. ...

Saturday, Aug 2

 

Rate NORM: Tempers heat up at LV Ice Center - Las Vegas Review

Original at lvrj.com external link    Sat, Aug 2    via Google News external link

NORM: Tempers heat up at LV Ice Center Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Actor Dominic Chianese, who played Corrado Soprano Jr., or Uncle Junior, on "The Sopranos," spotted at the Gold Bar inside the Pahrump Nugget Hotel & Casino ...

Friday, Aug 1

 

Rate These Wire fanatics really should cop on

Original at independent.ie external link    Fri, Aug 1    via Independent.ie - TV & Radio RSS Feed external link

These days, if you want to establish your credentials as a serious cultural commentator, it's absolutely essential to insist that HBO's crime series The Wire is the greatest achievement in the history of television. Forget The Sopranos -- that was so yesterday, darling. Forget Six Feet U...

Wednesday, Jul 30

 

Rate Mekeisha Madden Toby

Original at DetNews.com external link    Wed, Jul 30    via Google News external link

 MI - The other Showtime coup is "Nurse Jackie," a dramatic series from Edie Falco, aka Carmela Soprano from HBO's "The Sopranos," may it rest in peace. ...

Rate Mad show

Original at binduiswriting (WordPress) external link    Wed, Jul 30    via entourage « WordPress.com Tag Feed external link

By binduiswriting So I have been aware of 'Mad Men' for a while now, the show created by Max Weiner (also the producer of The Sopranos) and I have watched a few random spots on the Net earlier when I first heard about it. Was very interesting stuff. Interesting enough to make me dial Movie Empire's number and ask i...

Rate ‘Mad Men’ A Hit? Try A Whopping TWO Million Viewers

Original at mediapost.com external link    Wed, Jul 30    via Boxxet Collection

By Wayne Friedman If you are an HBO executive, you are probably smacking yourself in the head. You had Matt Weiner’s attention (the creator of “Mad Men”) when he was a writer for “The Sopranos.” But you let “Mad Men” go thinking it probably wouldn’t amount to anything.

Monday, Jul 28

 

Rate Soap Watch: &#39;Sopranos&#39; star headed to GH

Original at Entertainment Weekly external link    Mon, Jul 28    via Google News external link

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Monday, Jul 21

 

Rate Edie Falco to star in comedy series

Original at The Money Times external link    Mon, Jul 21    1 related articles    via Google Blogs external link

By MT Bureau Los Angeles -- Edie Falco, the US actress best known for portraying mob wife Carmela on "The Sopranos," will play a New York City nurse in a new TV comedy, Showtime said. Story:. The network said it has ordered 12 half-hour episodes of ...

Thursday, Jul 17

 

Rate 2008 a breakthrough year for cable series

Original at ToTheCenter.com external link    Thu, Jul 17    via Google Blogs external link

The crop of nominees for Best Drama Series is notable in that HBO is absent from the list for the first time since “The Sopranos” entered the Emmy Race in 1998. Competing with the aforementioned cable shows for top honor are ABC’s ...

Wednesday, Jul 16

 

Rate The joke's on ABC -- or is it on Jimmy Kimmel?

Original at The Buffalo News external link    Wed, Jul 16    via Google Blogs external link

By Alan Pergament Said he hoped that "Scrubs," which has moved to ABC from NBC, will have more than one season left. -- Announced that Michael Imperioli, best known as Christopher on "The Sopranos," has joined the cast of the new drama, "Life on Mars." ...

Tuesday, Jul 15

 

Rate Press Tour: What Does This Guy Deserve?

Original at The TV Zone external link    Tue, Jul 15    via Boxxet Collection

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Thanks, I suppose, to "The Sopranos," we in the press ranks have all larded our expectations about how classic series - particularly violent ones with morally conflicted characters - should end. Okay, at least I have. It's this sense that the end will fully and completely capture the prece...

Monday, Jul 14

 

Rate Buzz Interview: Holly Hunter on Saving Grace

Original at BuzzSugar external link    Mon, Jul 14    via Google Blogs external link

By BuzzSugar What preceded that was the success of The Shield and Rescue Me and The Sopranos — really started the wild, wild west in cable. FX and HBO kind of started this new idea, which was real character drama, and a character who does ...

Friday, Jul 11

 

Rate HBO Wants A Soprano Film, David Chase Says No Dice

Original at The Movie Blog external link    Fri, Jul 11    via Google Blogs external link

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) It’s no surprise HBO is looking to head back to the land of organized crime, and of course they’d be behind a feature film based on The Sopranos — especially after seeing the damage done by Sex and the City at the box office. ...

Wednesday, Jul 9

 

Rate That Sopranos big screen movie? Fuggeddaboutit

Original at TV Squad external link    Wed, Jul 9    via Google Blogs external link

By Allison Waldman Okay, seriously, he's not a shrink, he just played one on The Sopranos. Director-actor Peter Bogdanovich was asked about a possible big-screen Sopranos and he said it's not going to happen. "I spoke to David Chase a month ago, ...

Monday, Jul 7

 

Rate 'The Sopranos' Star Joins the Cast of 'Entourage'

Original at BuddyTV external link    Mon, Jul 7    via Google News external link

Online that Jamie-Lynn Sigler will soon be returning to HBO, however. She has just been cast for several episodes on Entourage's upcoming fifth season. ... Jamie-Lynn Sigler to appear on 'Entourage' United Press International Jamie-Lynn Sigler Joins Entourage Hollyscoop

Rate 'The Sopranos' Star Joins the Cast of 'Entourage'

Original at BuddyTV external link    Mon, Jul 7    via Google Blogs external link

When last we saw Meadow Soprano, she was having troubles parallel parking outside of a diner, late for a family dinner. After that The Sopranos episode's controversial final scene – in which the show quietly ended with Journey's “Don't ...

Tuesday, Jun 24

 

Rate Crimespree Cinema: DVD Info: Super Sopranos set coming in November.

Original at Crimespree Cinema external link    Tue, Jun 24    via Lynchman

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 DVD Info: Super Sopranos set coming in November. Fans of The Sopranos now have something to put on their wish list for Christmas. Warner/HBO announced today they will be releasing Sopranos: The Complete Series on November 11th. This 33 disc set will have a SRP of $399. Th...

Tuesday, Jun 10

 

Rate 60th Emmy Awards Preview - Supporting Actor in a Drama SeriesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at memles (WordPress) external link    Tue, Jun 10    via Boxxet Collection

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By Myles As far as Boston Legal goes, it has seen its chances in the category skyrocket after William Shatner, a perennial nominee, has been joined by John Larroquette and Christian Clemenson. The former is an Emmy darling from his time on Night Court, while the latter won an Emmy for a guest appeara...

Thursday, Nov 29

 

Rate TV News Briefs for November 29, 2007

Original at TV Series Finale external link    Thu, Nov 29    via Boxxet Collection

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The end of The Sopranos and the absence of Deadwood apparently hasn't hurt HBO. According to the latest numbers, the cable network's subscriber base actually rose in the third quarter of 2007, up 80,000 to almost 29 million. Deana Myers, senior analyst at tracking company SNL Kagan, said,...

Monday, Sep 17

 

Rate Emmys -- a bigger bust than Dolly Parton's

Original at Knoxville News Sentinel external link    Mon, Sep 17    via Boxxet Collection

By terry(morrow2@knews.com) Ratings aside, "The Sopranos" claimed its final Emmy as best dramatic series. Winners in other top categories were scattered across the prime-time landscape like the bodies of the show’s fallen characters across New Jersey. Spader rubbed out three-time winner James Gandolfini of "The...

Sunday, Sep 16

 

Rate 'Sopranos' Win; Actors Whacked

Original at Hartford Courant external link    Sun, Sep 16    via Boxxet Collection

By Hartford Courant The Sopranos" won best drama and the insider TV sitcom "30 Rock" won best comedy at the 59th Emmy Awards Sunday. A bigger surprise may have been the win of James Spader of "Boston Legal" as outstanding male lead in a  drama over James Gandolfini’s nuanced performance of Tony Soprano.

Thursday, Sep 6

 

Rate 'Sopranos' actress to stop by '30 Rock'

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Thu, Sep 6    via Boxxet Collection

By Tempo Edie Falco will appear on three episodes of "30 Rock" in the comedy's second season. We're thrilled to have such an amazing actress come join us," said Tina Fey, Creator/ Executive Producer/ Star, "30 Rock."  "Also, a lot of guys on our crew want 'The Sopranos' ending explained to them."

Sunday, Jul 22

 

Rate David Chase addresses that 'Sopranos' ending. Sort of.

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Sun, Jul 22    via Boxxet Collection

By Tempo Presented with a room full of TV critics, “Sopranos” David Chase couldn’t resist teasing the assembled throng about the hotly debated ending to his HBO show. Chase was on hand at Saturday’s Television Critic Association Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton, where “The Sopranos” won th...

Thursday, Jul 12

 

Rate Hopes dim for 'Deadwood' fans, an 'Entourage' trailer and more on that 'Sopranos' finale

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Thu, Jul 12    via Boxxet Collection

By Tempo I don’t know [what happened] because my TV went out," HBO executive Michael Lombardo joked. David Milch, who created “Deadwood” and then moved on to the HBO series “John From Cincinnati,” is “exhausted” after shooting “John’s” first season, Plepler said.

Wednesday, Jun 13

 

Rate TV Review: The Sopranos Or The Tiger? David Chase As Frank Stockton

Original at Blogcritics external link    Wed, Jun 13    via Boxxet Blogs

By Paul Levinson Some thoughts on the remarkable ending of The Sopranos: Then, of course, if we allow the possibility that no one was killed, then the guy just went to the bathroom not to take care of business but to do his own business. So David Chase has given us a Sopranos, or the Tiger ending.

Tuesday, Jun 12

 

Rate The Sopranos: Darkness visible.

Original at Slate external link    Tue, Jun 12    via Boxxet News

By Jeffrey Goldberg, Stephen Metcalf, Timothy Noah, Brian Williams, and Terry Winter It's been my lot to feel precisely the opposite about the Sopranos as everyone else does. So I thought I'd take my last licks. I found the ending flawless, more of which in a moment.  But first: For me, the show had, in its recent iterations, become like church, an every-Sunday obligation lo...

Rate Sopranos: My Take

Original at National Review Online Blogs external link    Tue, Jun 12    via Boxxet News

I was out of pocket yesterday because, no kidding, I had to sit on three picnic tables in a playground for four hours to reserve them for a three year-old's birthday party. So here's my take, and since it's already Tuesday, I don't need to hide anything inside. On the one hand, the ending was a br...

Rate Further thoughts on that 'Sopranos' finale

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Tue, Jun 12    via Boxxet Collection

By Tempo I’m coming around to the view that maybe we shouldn’t be surprised by that shocking “Sopranos” series finale. Like A.J., Christopher and Carmela, she’d rather be “Comfortably Numb” – the song that was playing when a drugged-up Christopher ran off the road.

Monday, Jun 11

 

Rate Sopranos Email

Original at National Review Online Blogs external link    Mon, Jun 11    via Boxxet News

Using our new device of concealing the rest of the post below the 'fold' I can now pile up email from readers without clogging the Corner or annoying people who don't care. An extra kipper in Chaka's rations! Anyway, email-with-spoilers after the link #more# From a reader:  The gentleman i...

Rate Angry "Sopranos" Fans Crash HBO's Website

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Jun 11    via Boxxet Blogs

By The Huffington Post News Editors The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you're one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don't bother to read on. Even if David Chase, who wrote and directed the final episode, was demonstratin...

Sunday, Jun 10

 

Rate "The Sopranos" finale: Whatever you want to believe

Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer external link    Sun, Jun 10    via Boxxet News

By tvgal@seattlepi.com (Melanie McFarland) You had to figure that series creator David Chase wasn't going to let Tony Soprano off easy, but to do this to the fans and bookies following nine weeks of theorizing whether he'd die or not? That's so cruel, it's brilliant. Meadow still can't park.

Friday, Jun 8

 

Rate NOT DEAD YET

Original at Asbury Park Press external link    Fri, Jun 8    via Boxxet News

Steven Van Zandt unwittingly fueled speculation about "The Sopranos" series finale when he told a New York Post reporter that there'd be no chance of a spinoff movie unless it was a "prequel." So does this mean "The Sopranos" will go the way of "Reservoir Dogs," with all the bad guys in a big s...

Thursday, Jun 7

 

Rate The Sopranos: The Top Ten Episodes

Original at Blogcritics external link    Thu, Jun 7    via Boxxet Blogs

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By Patrick And then we get the sad resolution of Pussy’s story as he’s gunned down and dumped in the ocean. This is a major turning point for Tony, and the series as a whole. We’d seen Tony kill before, but to kill a friend? It’s cast a shadow over the entire series, echoed in this season’s “Remember When.”

Monday, Jun 4

 

Rate As 'Sopranos' end nears, so does Tony's

Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer external link    Mon, Jun 4    via Boxxet News

NEW YORK -- The next-to-last episode of "The Sopranos" found one member of Tony's crew meeting a bloody end, another in critical condition and even Tony getting terminated by his therapist.

Rate What iF Picks: 'THE SOPRANOS' SERIES FINALE HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEK IN ... - iFMagazine

Original at iFMagazine external link    Mon, Jun 4    via Google News external link

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What iF Picks: 'THE SOPRANOS' SERIES FINALE HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEK IN ...  - David Chase wrote and directed the final episode that will end the six year run for television best drama. I’m writing this before the June 3 rd episode so ...


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