The Sopranos

By Bob Sassone Who would buy Hammertime on DVD? I'm actually asking. Is that something that you would actually watch again after you've already watched it on TV? There are some good complete series sets being released this week, though: Andy Richter's Andy Barker, P.I., a Rome gift set, Farscape, and a new...

By Joel Keller As much as I loved The Real Housewives of New Jersey, I knew that I was loving it for all the wrong reasons. I'm New Jersey all the way: born here, went to college here, have lived here all my life. About ten percent of the people I've met fit the yelling, lunkheaded Jersey stereotypes we've seen o...

By Brad Trechak Mind you, the show's language is somewhat racy for basic cable. There will be some bleeping here and there. At least there's no prevalent nudity in any episode that I recall. There is some adult subject matter, but nothing basic cable hasn't seen before. Hey, if The Sopranos can make it to basic...

Daniel hires Natalie - played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who was Tony's daughter on "The Sopranos" - as his assistant. Also, he learns that his mother has a past ... and more »

School for Gangsters The Monthly (subscription) The Sopranos' Tony Soprano, for example, watches old Jimmy Cagney movies on TV. But what's in it for the law-abiding? The idea that we enjoy crime stories ...

But no matter how good "The Sopranos" was, HBO wasn't going to throw it on anywhere else than prime time. That's when audiences are expecting TV that is ... and more »

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Q: I've become a faithful fan of The Sopranos on A&E. (I never watched it on HBO.) Do you know of a website where I could match up the actors' names with ... and more »

By Soprano Sue From The Sopranos; Arthur Nascarella (Carlo Gervasi), John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia (Albie Cianflone & Unofficial Mayor of Little Italy), John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco), Sharon Angela (Rosalie Aprile), Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) with his band La Dolce Vita, Vincen...

By Soprano Sue And where was Frank Sinatra, Jr. when he was asked to do a cameo on "The Sopranos"? John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco) reads Jack Kerouac passages from the book "Big Sur" in the DVD, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur ." Soprano Sue

NEW ROLE: Edie Falco, who played Carmela in The Sopranos, takes on the title role in Nurse Jackie. OPINION: Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the ... TV review: Falco's performance keeps medical drama's heart beatingNew Zealand Herald all 2 news articles »

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Steven Van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and a cast member of “The Sopranos,” chose ... and more »

By Joel Keller It's hard to say that a show that's already won a small U-Haul's worth of Emmys and other awards can be having a breakout season, but that seems to be what's happening with Mad Men during its third season. The buzz around the show has been as loud as we've heard since The Sopranos went to black, a...

By Danny Gallagher S0402) - "You've got a family to support and people to dismember. You're spinning too many plates, Dexter." - Harry Morgan One of the most interesting reasons to watch shows like Dexter are the ways the characters manage to wiggle their way out of complete destruction after pushing more tha...

By Soprano Sue Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) has been featured in commercials for 1800 Tequila, check it out. To view the spots, click here. Michael Imperioli recently premiered his film "Hungry Ghosts". Steve Schirripa (Bacala) and Sharon Angela (Rosalie Aprile) star in the film.

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, ...

 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 ...

By Bob Sassone Question: Is The Sopranos the best drama in the history of television, or is it one of the best dramas in the history of television that often gets the top spot because it's fairly recent? That's one of the questions to ponder as you read AOL's Top 50 Dramas Of All-Time list. The Sopranos comes...

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 …

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Afterwards, series creator Shawn Ryan, who wrote the finale, sat down with writers to discuss his creation. I asked if how mindful he was of "The Sopranos"' famously controversial finale when putting the final touches on his own show. ("The Sopranos" was airing its last episodes just as "T...

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.

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...

 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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,...

By terry(morrow2@knews.com) Spader rubbed out three-time winner James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos" and last year’s upset victor, Kiefer Sutherland of "24." Field, fondly remembered for her years-ago TV stints as "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun," bumped off Edie Falco of "The Sopranos."

By Tempo Many cast members from “The Office,” “Heroes,” and “Dexter” were on hand at the TCA awards. Also present were “Sopranos” cast members Edie Falco and Lorraine Bracco, and many of the show’s writers, including Matthew Weiner, who had a really good week. His new show, “Mad Men,” debuted to mos...

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...

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) Blogcritics.org, OH - What this episode brings home is the way that Tony Soprano is no different than you or I. We all buy into this myth of America, the shared past and the ...

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...

By tvgal@seattlepi.com (Melanie McFarland) Wouldn't you know it, Tony Soprano met his maker while sharing onion rings with his wife and kids at a New Jersey diner. You could also say Tony Soprano's last meal as a free man was the onion rings he shared with Carmela, his daughter Meadow and his son A.J. Meadow still can't park.

Here's how you would take out The Sopranos'  OH - And mob boss Tony Soprano is sitting alone in the dark upstairs bedroom of a safe house. He's stretched out on the bed, staring at the closed door, ... The Sopranos: The Top Ten Episodes Blogcritics.org

By Patrick By way of summarizing The Sopranos, I’m going to go through my top ten episodes of the series. It’s a lot tougher to do that with The Sopranos than with a lot of others, say Buffy the Vampire Slayer or even Six Feet Under, since every episode is at such a consistently high level, and the show does...

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...

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.

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 ...  - 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...