Tag: The Sopranos
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TV Ratings Explained: What Does All That Data Really Mean?
Back in the good old days of analog television rating numbers, things were pretty simple. The Nielsen ratings would come in sometime throughout the morning following the previous evening’s live airing. Each network would leave a recorded message that anyone with the Nielsen phone number could access. The Nielsen numbers represented the homes of 40,000…
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Jennifer Esposito Talks Directorial Debut ‘Fresh Kills’ and Why She Refused to Audition for ‘The Sopranos’
Jennifer Esposito remembers being asked to audition for “The Sopranos” more than once. She declined each time.“I chose to not go up for it when they would call me in because it was like, ‘I can’t relive this,’” Esposito recalls. “The only thing that used to make me crazy about the show when I did…
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In The Succession Season 4 Premiere, The Roy Siblings Finally Seem Kind Of Happy
This piece contains spoilers for the “Succession” season 4 premiere.If one had to compare Logan Roy (Brian Cox) to any other character in a prestige drama, it would probably be Tony Soprano. They’re both powerful men living luxurious lives, and they also happen to be terrible for everyone around them. For six seasons in “The…
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‘Yellowjackets’ Showrunners Cite Tony Soprano as an Inspiration: ‘That’s What We’re Aiming for’
Long live the legacy of Tony Soprano.The titular mob boss of HBO’s “The Sopranos” has been a cited influence on everything from “Better Call Saul” to “Avatar: The Way of Water,” but the particular breed of beloved antihero that Tony embodies marks a direct inspiration for “Yellowjackets” Season 2.Creators and co-showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart…
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Michael Imperioli Laments ‘Sopranos’ Co-Star Tony Sirico’s Omission from Oscars In Memoriam
Every year the Oscar’s hold an in memoriam segment honoring stars and Hollywood professionals who lost their lives over the past year, and every time, there’s controversy after the segment seems to leave notable faces out. “White Lotus” star Michael Imperioli is adding to the criticism that this year’s in memoriam received, by blasting the…
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Mafia Mamma: Trailer, Cast, Plot, and Everything We Know So Far
There has been no shortage of mobster films over the years, and because of that genre’s popularity, there’s also no shortage of mobster film parodies. Many of these films and shows offer their own spin on the oft-told story of a person’s life in organized crime. These include full-blown comedic satires like Analyze This (1999)…
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FX’s The Shield ‘Never Should Have Happened’ Yet Changed The Network Forever
When “The Shield” premiered on FX in March 2002, it was entering a prestige-tv landscape that was still relatively young. “The Sopranos” had just begun its HBO run three years earlier, and AMC shows like “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” — with protagonists cut from the same antihero cloth as Tony Soprano — had not…
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The Difference Between TV and Movies Is Even Smaller Than You Think
Once upon a time, prestige television shows such as The Sopranos and Breaking Bad offered an outlet for mid-budget storytellers who felt frozen out of Hollywood’s big-budget studio system. Talented writers such as David Chase, Vince Gilligan, and Matthew Weiner found a venue where they could tell the ambitious stories they’d been dying to tell,…
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Tulsa King’s Garrett Hedlund & Jay Will on Working With Taylor Sheridan
Paramount+’s newest crime-drama series Tulsa King, from creator Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) and The Sopranos writer Terence Winter, stars Sylvester Stallone in his television debut as Dwight “The General” Manfredi. After 25 years, New York mafia capo Manfredi is released from prison to a changing world. His family informs him that, after a quarter of a…
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Matthew Weiner: It Was ‘Disappointing’ That HBO Didn’t Even Read the ‘Mad Men’ Pilot
After writing “The Sopranos” episodes, Matthew Weiner thought he was part of the HBO “family.”However, the “Mad Men” creator revealed that new executive management at the network following visionary Chris Albrecht’s exit led to him being ignored, per the new book “It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO” by Felix Gillette…