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Tom R's Overview: The Sons of Anarchy are a motorcycle gang (also known as SAMCRO) in Charming, CA, a small town in the Stockton/Sacramento area. SAMCRO makes a living running guns, but their activities, however, pale in comparison to the drug runners and developers who threaten their town. Executive producer Kurt Sutter brings his experience as a writer for The Shield. Acting roots look strong, with Ron Perlman (Hellboy) replacing Scott Glenn in the lead. Also starring are...
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'True Blood' premiere sucks in millions of fans
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Wed, Jun 17
United States That makes the episode HBO's most-watched program since the finale of "The Sopranos." Altogether, the premiere delivered the network's single biggest audience since the mob drama's 2007 ending, which drew 11.9 million and still ranks as its ...
Sopranos Episode Featuring Bowdoin Named Among TV Guide's Best
Original at Bowdoin
• Wed, Jun 17
ME In its first season, the hit HBO series The Sopranos wove Bowdoin into an ongoing storyline that dealt with Meadow Soprano's search for the perfect college. TV Guide has compiled a list of the greatest episodes of all time and ranked "College," the ...
Hot Box: TV worth talking about
Original at Toronto Star
• Wed, Jun 17
Canada Bloody Good Numbers: The ratings had bite for the second season premiere of HBO's vampire series, True Blood. The show attracted 3.7 million US viewers Sunday, the biggest audience for HBO since The Sopranos finale in 2007; another 1.4 million watched ...
'True Blood' may bleed green for HBO soon
Original at Los Angeles Times
• Wed, Jun 17
The show, whose second season premiered Sunday to numbers the network hasn't seen since the last days of its mob drama "The Sopranos," is also on track to become hbo's next cash cow. For Time Warner Inc.'s HBO, it couldn't come at a more opportune time ... A 'True' Hit for HBO New York Times
Nielsen concedes error, reprocessing news ratings
Original at google.com
• Tue, Jun 16
HBO also reported that the second season premiere of "True Blood" on Sunday was seen by 3.7 million people, the most-watched original series telecast on the network since the June 2007 finale of "The Sopranos." ABC averaged 7.3 million prime-time ... Mr. TV: 10 Years After MEDIAWEEK
Anna Paquin: 'True Blood' Draws Record Ratings!
Original at Just Jared
• Tue, Jun 16
NY It's liberating!” Sunday's second-season premiere of True Blood garnered a massive 3.7 million viewers, making it the most-watched HBO program since The Sopranos season finale. That's up 157% in comparison with the series' premiere!
True Blood's Lafayette is alive and kicking
Original at Examiner.com
• Tue, Jun 16
“True Blood's” second season premiere attracted over five million viewers, successfully becoming the most watched show for the HBO network since the finale of “The Sopranos”. During the premiere fans watched the chemistry spark between Sookie and Bill ...
'True Blood' gives HBO its biggest audience since 'The Sopranos'
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Tue, Jun 16
More than 5 million viewers tuned in to the second season premiere of "True Blood," giving HBO its biggest telecast since the finale of "The Sopranos." After last season's bone-chilling cliffhanger — was that Lafayette's cold, dead corpse in the back ...
What's Your Problem?
Original at Atlantic Online
• Tue, Jun 16
Your question reminds me, as I'm sure it does you, of an early Sopranos episode (The Sopranos was a sensation among southern Episcopal clergy). As you'll recall, Tony decides to burn down a friend's restaurant to stop it from becoming the scene of a ...
Nurses get their chance to shine in new dramas
Original at charlotte.com
• Tue, Jun 16
Falco, her hair much shorter for this role, sheds the skin of Carmela Soprano (from, of course, HBO's “The Sopranos”) within the first five or 10 minutes. This character is strikingly different, not only tougher and flintier than Carmela but perhaps ...
Grey to feature Stevie Van Zandt for music seminar at Cannes
Original at Indiantelevision.com
• Mon, Jun 15
India But now, he's world famous once again in his role as sidekick to a completely different kind of boss, Tony Soprano, as Silvio in The Sopranos. In both lives, Van Zandt's trademark modesty hides his huge talent. Typically he always claims of his Silvio ...
Time to tap into HBO's 'True Blood'
Original at GoErie.com
• Fri, Jun 12
BY DAVE RICHARDS I have found true love and its name is "True Blood," the HBO series about vampires that begins its second season Sunday. You might even say I have a blood lust for it. I arrived late. I stopped getting HBO not long after "The Sopranos" ...
Gandolfini buys lot on Lake Manitoba
Original at Winnipeg Free Press
• Fri, Jun 12
Canada But he recently let slip that one of his buyers is none other than mega-celebrity James Gandolfini, who played the role of mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit TV series The Sopranos. Not only is Gandolfini one of today's biggest stars, famous for playing ...
Grey Partners With Stevie Van Zandt in Music Seminar at Cannes - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Thu, Jun 11
But now, he's world famous once again in his role as sidekick to a completely different kind of boss, Tony Soprano, as Silvio in "The Sopranos." In both lives, Van Zandt's trademark modesty hides his huge talent. Typically he always claims of his ...
Television Review | 'Nurse Jackie'
Original at New York Times
• Sun, Jun 7
Ms. Falco, who played Carmela on “The Sopranos,” is Jackie Peyton, a tough, brusque and dedicated nurse at All Saints, a fictional Roman Catholic hospital in Lower Manhattan. She knows more about emergency medicine than patronizing doctors do, ...
No Kidding, Me Too
Original at ADVANCE for LPNs
• Fri, Jun 5
PA You probably remember him as Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, Cypher in The Matrix or in one of the many other roles he has played in his 100-plus film career. He was promoting his latest film, which is unlike any he had done previously: No Kidding, ... Hats off to Joey Pants Asbury Park Press
Beer ads pulled over Italian complaints
Original at Chicago Sun-Times
• Wed, Jun 3
BY LEWIS LAZARE Media & Marketing Columnist Miller Lite beer's new "Protection" campaign, prominently featuring actor Frank Vincent from the HBO mobster hit "The Sopranos," is being pulled after Chicago representatives of the Italian-American community ...
Top 10 most shocking moments in recent TV history
Original at Examiner.com
• Fri, May 22
Uncle Junior Shoots Tony Soprano on "The Sopranos" The highly anticipated sixth season of “The Sopranos” premiered in early 2006 with a bang. Literally. Paranoid, and in the early stages of Alzheimer's, Uncle Junior stumbled into the living room with a ...
Journey hit song 'Don't Stop Believin'' gets new life from Fox ...
Original at Tampabay.com
• Thu, May 21
THE SOPRANOS' FINALE: On June 10, 2007, Don't Stop Believin' became the centerpiece to the final scene from HBO's hit series The Sopranos. Sales of the song on iTunes rose 482 percent over the next few days. Permission to use the song wasn't given ...
REVIEW: Old Globe's 'Price' is uneven but has its rewards
Original at North County Times
• Wed, May 20
CA Instead of entertaining and enlightening with the banter and unexpected wisdom of the seen-it-all Solomon, actor Dominic Chianese, best known as Uncle Junior on "The Sopranos," seemed befuddled and often lost, himself. Was the actor dropping or ...
Jefferson Politics: The West Bank Sopranos, Ted Munch, Martin … - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Original at The Sopranos
• Sat, May 16
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com Jefferson Politics: The West Bank Sopranos, Ted Munch, Martin ... The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com,?LA When asked if any of the Black Hats took pointers from the mob boss' corrupt dealings on " The Sopranos ," Roberts laughed and recalled one member's reaction to a...
TV shows find fans second time around
Original at Houston Chronicle
• Mon, Apr 27
United States The Sopranos, HBO. One of the greatest anti-heroes on all of television. And a mob story that was really about a marriage, a family and one man's anxiety. Six seasons of therapy, murder and family machinations. • The Shield, FX. ...
The Sopranos - The Complete Fourth Season User Review 94522Original at uk.video.yahoo.com
• Wed, Mar 4
The continuing saga of Tony Soprano in HBO's mob hit, The Sopranos Season 4The Sopranos - The Complete Fourth Season, TV Show DVDs, Movies & TV ... uk.video.yahoo.com
Sopranos News and fun stuffs!
Original at The Sopranos
• Fri, Feb 6
By sopranosue@hotmail.com (Soprano Sue Sadik) And speaking of Steve, according to Digital Spy, Steve has signed on for a guest appearance on the television show, "Ugly Betty". There is a write up about Michael Imperioli's (Christopher Moltisanti) directorial debut. His movie, "The Hungry Ghosts" features Steve Schirripa and Sharo...
DVD Review: Brotherhood - Season 2 - Blogcritics.org
Original at The Sopranos
• Tue, Jan 20
It’s a natural to compare Brotherhood to The Sopranos. They are both about organized-crime syndicates, families both criminal and blood, and evoke a real sense of place, made more authentic in Brotherhood by the filming of the show in Providence …
The Sopranos Season 4 (2003) DVD9 / NTSC Disc 01 of 04
Original at BitHQ.org
• Fri, Dec 19
Amazon.com Carmela to Tony: "Everything comes to an end." True enough, Mrs. Sope, but on The Sopranos, the end comes sooner for some than others. Though for some the widely debated fourth season contained too much yakking instead of whacking, and an emphasis on domestic...
Best Discs Of 2008 - Staff Picks
Original at DVD Monthly Magazine
• Thu, Dec 18
By Tim Isaac The obvious choice maybe, but in my opinion the only choice! Christopher Nolan guided the Superhero movie to giddy new heights, and Heath Ledger cemented his immortality with a truly unhinged stint as The Joker. The Dark Knight’s dazzling scope recalls classic gangster movies of the pas...
True Blood, season 1
Original at my.opera.com
• Wed, Dec 17
By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Georgius the Peasant) However, much like a baby learning to walk, with every episode, they improved. The cheese gradually declined to an acceptable level, and the characters started feeling less off. Many of them still felt (or feel, for that matter) highly stupid or uninteresting, but at least they started fe...
Ex-"Sopranos" Actor Takes Stand In Murder Trail
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Dec 15
By The Huffington Post News Editors NEW YORK — Lillo Brancato says he didn't know an alleged accomplice was armed when he went looking for drugs. Brancato, who played a wannabe mobster on the HBO hit "The Sopranos," says he was suffering from heroin withdrawal when he and Steven Armento went to an apartment where the actor had...
FX is turning in 'The Shield' after 7 seasons on the edge
Original at usatoday.com
• Tue, Nov 25
It took seven seasons, but The Shield's Vic Mackey finally gets his reckoning tonight.Michael Chiklis' groundbreaking TV cop shocked viewers in his very first episode by shooting an undercover officer. The act re-emerges, along with an avalanche of other illegal activities committed...
Fall TV update
Original at Doug Orleans's Journal
• Thu, Nov 6
By dougorleans@gmail.com Time for an update on the new fall TV shows. In descending order of recommendation: Sons of Anarchy: This is the biggest surprise for me—I hadn't heard anything about it other than seeing enigmatic commercials on FX this summer, but I'm really enjoying it. In a nutshell, it's like The Sopran...
DVD review: Mad Men: Season One
Original at A.V. Club
• Tue, Jul 15
With The Sopranos and The Wire off the air, Matthew Weiner’s series on Madison Avenue in 1960 stands along as TV’s best drama.
Crimespree Cinema: DVD Info: Super Sopranos set coming in November.
Original at Crimespree Cinema
• Tue, Jun 24
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...
Opinion: Van Zandt wants to ‘remind people what greatness sounds like’
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Tue, Jun 10
PA - Best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- although his stint as Silvio Dante on "The Sopranos" brought him an entirely new audience ...
Podcast: InterviewsOriginal at GALACTICA SITREP
• Fri, Mar 28
By ProgGrrl Sci Fi Pulse has “Part One” of video interviews from the Upfronts press conference. Sci Fi Channel UK has posted video interviews with Nicki Clyne on their web site (UK users only); here’s a shorter excerpt on their YouTube channel for the rest of us.
Opinion: "Sopranos" Cast to Help Sick Friend
Original at The TV Zone
• Tue, Dec 18
And who from the old gang? Pretty much all the major players, with an exception here and there: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Robert Iler and Michael Imperioli will show up at the club at 10 p.m. - you can see them all, sitting in the VIP area. Go up. Shake hands. Get autographs.
411 Retro TV Review: The Sopranos – Episode 12
Original at 411mania.com
• Mon, Dec 3
By Mike Gorman | 2007-12-04 00:00:00 Well it hits the fan this week folks…finally! This just might be the best episode of the season and all it took was a little family on family violence. Will Tony’s depression leave him at rock bottom or is it time for a phoenix to rise ...
TV News Briefs for November 29, 2007
Original at TV Series Finale
• Thu, Nov 29
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,...
Opinion: The Ending of The Sopranos: We Got Robbed
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Jul 20
By Anthony Grande I have watched The Sopranos for the past couple of years. I spent about one hundred and fifty dollars buying the first four seasons so I could catch up with the new HBO episodes. Hell, I would not have even purchased and paid a monthly fee to have HBO if it was not for their showing of The Sopranos e...
Opinion: The Emmys shut out 'Friday Night Lights,' reward 'Sopranos' and 'Ugly Betty' but get a lot wrong -- again
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Thu, Jul 19
By Tempo The Sopranos • HBO • Chase Films and Brad Grey Television in association with HBO Entertainment Aida Turturro, Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano The Sopranos • HBO • Chase Films and Brad Grey Television in association with HBO Entertainment
TV Review: The Sopranos - The End of the Family
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Jun 13
By David Mazzotta It doesn’t matter, you see? Tony got whacked/Tony went on as before -- it doesn’t matter. That’s not what The Sopranos was about. Ever. David Chase has said time and time again that The Sopranos is about family. Now you add that to the recurring theme of the show -- criminal-level self-delusion...
TV Review: The Sopranos: "Made in America" (6x21)
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, Jun 11
By Patrick To that end, almost all the long-running characters get a nice farewell. We see Janice becoming her mother, something that’s made literal in the great scene where Junior calls Janice Livia and her daughter, Janice. Janice already resents Bobby’s children and will likely be so overprotec...
TV Review: The Sopranos - "The Blue Comet"
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Jun 7
By Patrick On a thematic level, the episode integrates a lot of things that have been going on under the surface for a while. Phil says that he needs to take out Tony Soprano’s “glorified crew” because they don’t really believe in the mythology of the mafia. It is the ritual that makes them more than gangs...
As 'Sopranos' end nears, so does Tony's
Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Mon, Jun 4
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.
Re: Episode 85: Blue Comet - Review It!
Original at community.comcast.net
• Mon, Jun 4
By Barbara53 I hope I don't start an uproar here but I have to say that I thought so much more of David Chase. The Sopranos was one of my favorite television series of all time. The other one was Six Feet Under. Now although both series had their episodes of "**bleep**???" when Six Feet Under came to the fina...
What iF Picks: 'THE SOPRANOS' SERIES FINALE HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEK IN ... - iFMagazine
Original at iFMagazine
• Mon, Jun 4
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 ...
TV Review: The Sopranos: "The Second Coming" (6x19)
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, May 29
By Patrick Yet, the brilliance of the show is that we always understand why he does what he does, and are still able to remain sympathetic. I generally prefer characters who are fascinating to ones who are likable in traditional ways, characters like Spike or Magneto, and Tony is one of the greatest an...
Opinion: Paul Krassner: The Sopranos Meet The Hippies
Original at Huffington Post
• Wed, May 16
By Paul Krassner I usually watch The Sopranos at 9 p.m. on HBO, but this time I watched the East Coast feed at 6 p.m., so that I could also catch a two-hour documentary about hippies on The History Channel at 8 p.m. Paul Brownfield, one of the best TV critics around, wrote in his review of The Sopranos in the Los Angeles...
TV Review: The Sopranos - "Soprano Home Movies"
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Apr 11
By Patrick The thing that frustrated me about the end of last season wasn't so much that nothing of significance happened with the plot, it was that not much changed for the characters. Even though the New York/New Jersey conflict has been in a perpetual loop, it never felt so teasing as at the end of las...
Opinion: Ari Gold and Tony Soprano return, and we can't look away
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Thu, Apr 5
By Tempo Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) looks less and less committed to the life that Tony is leading. In the second episode, Christopher’s horror film, “Cleaver,” opens; that debut involves some satirical jabs at the entertainment industry that could have come straight from “E...