Television: Tony Wasnât Whacked, but What About HBO?
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âThe Sopranosâ ending perfectly symbolized the black hole that the showâs departure left in the television landscape. What show is going to fill the gap it leaves behind?
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The Emmy Awards will have a different look Sunday but a familiar matchup as "The Sopranos" tries again to topple "The West Wing" and get its first win as best dramatic series.
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LOS ANGELES - HBO showed its muscle at the Emmys Sunday, with "The Sopranos" becoming the first cable series to win best drama and "Angels in America," the miniseries about the AIDS crisis, getting a record-setting 11 trophies. The premium cable channel received more than triple the awards of its next closest competitor...
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LOS ANGELES - "The Sopranos" finally whacked its competitors in the best drama category at the Emmy Awards, and a comedy series victory for ratings-starved "Arrested Development" proved SOMEBODY was watching - but it was HBO and its record-breaking "Angels in America" that fluttered away with the most trophies.    HBO's megahit about a New Jersey mob family collected the best drama Emmy on its fifth try Sunday, and the channel's "Sex and the City" and "Angels in America" helped cable overshadow the traditional networks...
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HBO, cableâs most popular premium channel, is carefully entering the arena of Internet video.
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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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The HBO show's controversial ending was the worst possible choice, says James Poniewozik -- except for all the others
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My friend caught me by surprise when he asked, "What happened to Tony?"
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Packing the one-two punch of drama "The Sopranos" and TV movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," cable television's HBO dominated Emmy nominations on Thursday with 86 nods overall to lead all other networks.
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Its finale was one of the most talked-about final episodes in TV history. But that's no guarantee "The Sopranos" will be rewarded Sunday night at the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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HBO's Unscripted is clever and fun, but how many inside-show-biz sitcoms do we need?
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The broadcast networks have a lot more viewers, but HBO has most of the Emmys, winning more than ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox combined on Sunday night.
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Tony Soprano's Mafia family was fictional. Joe Bonanno's was not. Gay Talese reveals what happened to the next generation of the American mob.
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BRAINTREE -- It was getting late. The sun had set and evening turned into night. Tony Soprano's fate, for better or worse, had been sealed on HBO, and anxious mothers had resigned themselves to the fact that there was no chance their youngsters were getting to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Confounding every expectation--but confirming its genius for unpredictability--'The Sopranos' cuts to black
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The 11.9 million viewers who watched "The Sopranos" finale brought HBO to the edge of a historic feat: a show on a pay cable network available in about 30 million homes was more popular last week than all but one show on the far larger world of broadcast television.
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'The Sopranos' gets a swan song. 'Lost' gets overlooked. Spike gets spiked. A closer look at the nominees for TV's top prizes.