This isn’t merely a semantic difference that paints lipstick on the same pig. It’s a fundamentally different way of viewing the function of an individual building block of a season, or series, of television. To call The Sopranos a novelistic approach...

“I think there’s some vicarious living through my character that might be sparking this, because it’s enormous.” So how did Van Zandt - a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and also the guy who played Sil on The Sopranos - get involved with a...

More death and pain is on the way. Its sad and painful look at mafia life makes Long Term Parking The Sopranos best episode; its greatest achievement. The episode is, at times, laugh out loud hilarious, unapologetically devastating, brilliantly acted,...

This week Joel Najman's My Place program tells the story of music mogul Morris Levy, labeled by Variety "The Godfather" of the record business. As head of Roulette Records, Morris Levy released major hits by Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Rogers, Tommy James and...

Three-time All-Star Gilbert Arenas was amnestied by the Magic on Dec. 9 and hasn't spoken to media since. When Gilbert Arenas pulled the curtain on his "AgentZeroShow" Twitter account last September, he went dark in ways we hadn't seen since his...

I love "Goodfellas," "Donnie Brasco," "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire." It's a history our country has glorified in film but rarely with an entire museum dedicated to the history of organized crime. But just last week the Mob Museum opened in Las...

The Sopranos ruin TV? That's the gist of what Ryan McGee argues in the AV Club today: that because of its "novelistic" approach, The Sopranos popularized a too-serialized standard that's unsustainable and probably undesirable for most shows. McGee says...

Empire's showrunner Terence Winter says Paz de la Huerta could be back on the show down the road. Vulture caught up with Winter at the WGA's East Coast awards ceremony last night, where he told us that Lucy could theoretically reappear — she just won't...

3. 12 Miles Of Bad Road (HBO, 2008) Cable channels are usually so careful about the programs they pick up to series that it’s rare for a show to be abandoned. This is especially true for HBO, which has made its name around risk-taking programming. In...

500th episode to "The Simpsons," the greatest show in the history of television. Yes, you read that right. Greatest ever. No argument. I love "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "M*A*S*H," "Seinfeld," "Freaks and Geeks" and more, but no show has ever reached...

An episode of The Sopranos? No, just another weekend in the world of professional boxing, a business that hurtles with suicidal intent from one bizarre chapter to the next. In the aftermath of their scrap in the early hours of Sunday morning at what...

The group seems to have some sort of air to them that the general population finds intoxicating, particularly when it comes to fiction. From The Sopranos to Goodfellas, the reason for the popularity of this particular group has always eluded me, and...

The way the Mafia has been presented in the first two Godfather films, plus Goodfellas and The Sopranos — it seems like the ultimate “boys club.” For one thing, in all of these celluloid visions, the guys being “whacked” had it coming. For the most...

Lilyhammer on Netflix? Steven told Rolling Stone magazine, “The first week, it blew everybody’s mind – biggest viewership in history. And everybody, including me, thought, ‘Well, it’s probably just a curiosity. We have a lot of fans from the E Street...

19 This story also appears on the following websites... LAFLIN – It wasn’t a mob scene, but a crowd turned out for a trio of actors from “The Sopranos” in town Saturday night to take care of some business. Actor Vincent Pastore, right, of the TV show...

It's hard to tell. Or rather, it's hard to hear. Any show that features Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte was always going to make large demands on the listening viewer. Hoffman is one of the great mumblers of modern cinema, and, outside of the animal...

A film-to-TV transition by an A-lister would have been hard to fathom even just a dozen years ago, when networks were still the primary source of entertainment on the small screen. But then came “The Sopranos.” Fueled by its unprecedented success, HBO...

More than one million locals tuned in to watch the debut of the drama, about an FBI informer hiding from the Mafia in Scandinavia, last month, and the ratings keep going up, making the series the biggest ever for Norwegian public broadcaster NRK1. And...

I don't know how actors play characters who look exactly like themselves. I have enormous respect for that. [Laughs] I don't get it. I need to see someone else when I look in the mirror. Originally, with "The Sopranos," I wanted everything to be different.