May 8, 2008
Moving beyond Carmella Soprano, Edie Falco has signed on for a Showtime comedy where she will play a strong-willed New York City nurse who takes on the broken healthcare system while also steering an unpredictable and frustrating personal life.
The series is described as a dark comedy in the tradition of Weeds and will be shot in New York. Showtime is hoping for a premiere sometime this year. And although the unnamed half-hour comedy is just a pilot at this point, positive comments from the network's entertainment president make it sound like almost a sure bet to become a series.
January 27, 2008
If you watched the Screen Actors Guild Awards, you may have had some flashbacks to the most recent Emmy Awards. At the Emmys, The Sopranos and 30 Rock took home the awards for Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series. At the SAG Awards, those shows dominated over all else, taking five of the top six TV awards.
On the drama side, The Sopranos swept, taking the awards for Ensemble, as well as individual acting honors for stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco. On the comedy side, 30 Rock reaped awards for its leads, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, while fellow NBC comedy The Office won for Best Ensemble. Both shows feature casts that include writers, and their wins can be seen as a continued sign of SAG's support of the writers' strike.
December 24, 2007
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David Chase wasn't going to make it easy. For any pantheon-level TV series like The Sopranos, creating a satisfying finale is a losing proposition. How can you end years and years of quality television in one hour and please the fans while doing so? So, David Chase turned everything on its head and left the audience asking questions with the most risky and mysterious series finale TV has ever seen. As Tony Soprano waits for his family to arrive at a diner, he throws Journey's “Don't Stop Believin'” on the juke box.
December 24, 2007
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You can see that question mark up above, and you probably understand why it's there. We never saw Tony Soprano die and the final moments of The Sopranos didn't obviously suggest that he would perish. But, it is my belief that David Chase wanted us to believe that Tony did die. There have been million of words written, theorizing about what the final moments of the finale meant, but I think all one needs is a simple analysis.
September 11, 2007
Actor Steve Schirripa, best known as Bobby Baccalieri on HBO's critically-acclaimed drama, The Sopranos, has inked a deal that will have him hosting his own cooking series on Rainbow Media's free on-demand network, Lifeskool.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show is called Steve Schirripa's Hungry. The network has ordered nine episodes to be shown later this year. The series will feature a segment with Schirripa preparing Italian-American recipes from his book, The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Lovin' It, which was published last year.
September 1, 2007
Federico Castelluccio portrayed Furio Giunta on HBO's The Sopranos. He was an Italian-born mobster who became a member of Tony Soprano's (James Gandolfini) crew as part of the bargain with mob boss Annalisa Zucca. He came to New Jersey for an international car-theft operation and soon emerged as Tony's most feared enforcers. He intimidated and beat up many people who owed Tony money, and acted as his driver and bodyguard as well. He fell in love with Tony's wife, Carmela (Edie Falco), and as Tony's polar opposite, she was also drawn to him. Finding himself in an impossible personal predicament, he left New Jersey and went back to Italy. His disappearance on the show made him one of the relatively few characters in the Soprano Crime Family that were written out of the series without being killed on screen.
September 1, 2007
On HBO's The Sopranos, Michael Imperioli was known as Christopher Moltisanti as the protégé of mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). He was Tony's nephew and the first cousin of Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco). Deemed as the most loyal soldier, he was entrusted with sensitive jobs like disposing dead bodies and money collection. Throughout the series, Christopher had his share of problems, which includes his violent and impulsive behavior, being distracted with his screenwriting ambition and his drug addiction. Nevertheless, he eventually became a Capo, under Tony's tutelage, in the DiMeo Crime Family. In the coming months, the 41-year-old Emmy-Award winning actor will be tapping on a comedy feature and several drama projects.
July 20, 2007
Aida Turturro played Tony's sister Janice on the hit HBO series The Sopranos. Yesterday she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series as one of the 15 nominations the show received for its final season. She spoke with BuddyTV about how she heard about the nomination, her thoughts on her fellow cast members, and what she thought about the infamous blackout at the end of the finale.
Below you will find both the written transcript and the full mp3 audio of the interview