HBO: April is Tentative 'Sopranos' Date
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A posting on HBO's Web site reveals the final U.S. season of The Sopranos is tentatively scheduled to begin in little more than three months.
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Cable television powerhouse HBO has agreed to sell rerun rights for its hit mob drama "The Sopranos" to the A&E cable network in a deal industry sources put at a record &#36;2.5 million per episode.
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HBO is finalizing a deal  with BET to make the black-oriented cable channel the  syndicated home of its critically acclaimed original series  "The Wire," sources said.
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By TIM CUPRISIN  One of the interesting little footnotes to the new TV season is the way the networks are getting some of their new shows out to potential viewers before their actual premiere dates.
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NBC revealed plans on Tuesday to break  with the traditional way TV networks sell commercial time,  saying it will unveil its prime-time schedule in a series of  one-on-one meetings with advertisers in April.
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A month after he abruptly disappeared from TV screens, Tony Soprano was back to grab a piece of the Emmy action on Thursday as HBO's mob drama led the field of network series nominated for U.S. television's highest honors.
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HBO's celebrated mob hit "The Sopranos" is favored to finally rub out NBC's "The West Wing" on Sunday and grab an unprecedented victory for cable networks in the race for best television drama at the 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Mob saga "The Sopranos" led the field of Emmy Award contenders for best television series on Thursday in its much-ballyhooed last season on HBO, claiming a total of 15 nominations, including a bid for best drama.
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&quot;The Sopranos&quot; co-stars  Michael Imperioli and Vincent Curatola have closed deals to  appear in the final eight episodes of HBO&#039;s mob drama.
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"Jerry Springer: The Opera," threatened with closure because of an expensive libel action, will run at least until mid-December, producers said Friday.
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There&#039;s no need for any  premature whacking of characters when &quot;The Sopranos&quot; returns  next year for its final eight episodes.
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Another cast member of "The Sopranos" is headed to a prime-time comedy. Steve Schirripa, who plays Bobby "Bacala" Bacallieri on the HBO series, has signed a deal with Disney's Touchstone TV to star in a comedy based on his book, "A Goomba's Guide to Life."
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With just one week to go before production kicks off on the   final eight-episode run of The Sopranos, four of the show&#039;s stars   have been spared a fate of sleeping with the fishes.
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âFlight of the Conchords,â the new series making its debut tonight as part of HBOâs now Sopranos-less Sunday night lineup.
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LOS ANGELES Sept. 20, 2004 - &quot;The Sopranos&quot; finally whacked its competitors in the best drama category at the Emmy Awards, and a comedy series victory for ratings-starved &quot;Arrested Development&quot; proved SOMEBODY
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HBO is entering the  Japanese television market.
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Following mountains of critical praise that have called it perhaps the best work ever produced for television, HBO has renewed "The Wire" for a fifth season.  The novelistic drama about cops, drug dealers and the people caught in between in Baltimore began its fourth season on Sunday.