Final two "Sopranos" end pay rift
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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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By Jonathan Storm, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 24--It's enough to make a critic -- or anybody else who makes less than $1 million a year -- cry.   Big-bucks TV programmers are proving themselves to be stupider than the average-Joe viewer.
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LOS ANGELES  - After two months of   negotiations, "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen is close   to finalizing a new salary pact that would make him the   highest-paid comedy star in television today.
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The Sopranos are making big money, but this time it's legal. HBO sold 78 episodes of the Mob hit Monday to basic cable's A&amp;E network for &#36;2.5 million apiece, a record for reruns. It will begin airing in fall of 2006, after the show ends its run on HBO.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The world of Tony Soprano is about to come to an end with Sunday's final episode of "The Sopranos." Over seven years, the award-winning HBO TV series offered insight into the business of the modern mafia, albeit based on a fictional crime family in New Jersey.
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The biggest stars of U.S.  television will don their bow ties and finery on Sunday for an  Emmy Awards gala shaping up as a farewell bash for America&#39;s  favorite mob family, &quot;The Sopranos.&quot;
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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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Many &quot;Sopranos&quot; fans were furious at  Sunday&#39;s unresolved ending, but show creator David Chase said  he didn&#39;t mean to annoy anybody, and for those left wanting  more he didn&#39;t rule out a movie based on the series.
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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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Fans of "The Sopranos" are seizing on clues suggesting the controversial blackout which abruptly ended the TV mob drama meant that Tony Soprano was rubbed out, and HBO said on Thursday they may be on to something.
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Millions of US viewers tune in for the finale of The Sopranos, to learn the fate of mob boss Tony Soprano.
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The closest points finish in history registered in the ratings, amounting to an unexpected bonus for NBC. Contract talks are expected to start late next year.
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The acrimony is apparently over for the once-coupled Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards.
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And so on the first day of Year One A.T. &#151; After Tony, that is &#151; the "Sopranos"-viewing world was split in two camps. One was muttering bitterly into its morning coffee at the open-ended conclusion of the epic series, a banal family moment over onion rings that would have delighted existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, author of "Being and Nothingness."
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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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The fall TV   season looks to have produced two early casualties this week: NBC's   Last Comic Standing 3 and Fox's The Next Great Champ.
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They're known as "New York's Finest," but their starting pay isn't.