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...The fledgling HBO network — future home of The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Game of Thrones — had only 50,000 viewers, about 175,000 shy of the number it needed to break even....
...A roving eye has recently also cost his son Dominic (The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli) his marriage....
...That is narrowing the old gap in production values and sophistication between top US cable dramas, such as The Sopranos and The Wire, and the cheaper fare on European and Asian television....
...Fred Wyshak, one of the federal prosecutors who led the Insys case, began his career prosecuting a mob family he compared to the Sopranos, and he later helped convict James “Whitey” Bulger, an Irish-American...
...People even thought he was behind The Sopranos.” Strains in the relationship came to a head at an HBO town hall where Plepler and Stankey shared a stage....
...The expansive stories and complicated characters of The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad have frequently been described as Shakespearean....
...HBO, which is also behind other successful series such as The Sopranos, The Wire and Sex and the City, was regarded as the crown jewel of the Time Warner media empire, which AT&T acquired last year for $80bn...
...These all feel more reminiscent of the football World Cup than The Sopranos. But there’s also something more to it than this....
...As well as distributing popular HBO series such as The Sopranos , it also makes popular local-language programmes and offers content made by other networks. AT&T declined to comment....
...But the jewel in the Time Warner portfolio is HBO, the producer of revered shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Big Little Lies and Game of Thrones....
...Under his watch, HBO has greenlit celebrated shows like The Sopranos, The Wire and True Detective, and won 160 Emmy awards. Hollywood talent mourned his departure on Thursday....
...There was no western-style “golden era” of Indian television — no incisively written dramas such as Mad Men or The Sopranos....
...The Sopranos opened up a whole new way of storytelling.”...
...Bamonte’s, the Italian restaurant in the heart of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, is known for making a delicious seafood fra diavolo and appearing in scenes of the HBO series The Sopranos....
...The network used to be known primarily for its edgy dramas such as The Sopranos, which did not shy away from violence, profanity or sexual content....
...I am not an old man but I have lived through 30 or 40 iterations of this cycle, starting with The West Wing and The Sopranos at the turn of the millennium....
...All this coincided with the so-called “golden age” of American television, exemplified by The Sopranos and The West Wing, as well as later shows such as Mad Men....
...From The Sopranos through to Mad Men , Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones — another big winner at the Emmys — television is enjoying a critical and artistic renaissance....
...HBO, the premium cable channel behind hits such as Game of Thrones and The Sopranos, has struck a deal with one of the biggest names in US sports media to boost its programming and content line-up as it...
...Sesame Street, the classic children’s television programme, has found a new home on HBO, the network behind The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, bolstering its kids’ programming at a time when young viewers...
...But can its sky-high valuation be fully justified, particularly when compared with HBO, the Time Warner-owned premium network behind hit shows such as Game of Thrones and The Sopranos?...
...I’ve never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I’m out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there’s Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.”...
...For $14.99 a month, subscribers get on-demand access to HBO’s portfolio of new shows and old hits, from Game of Thrones and the true-crime documentary The Jinx to The Sopranos and Six Feet Under....
...There was a great deal of hand-wringing in 2007 when The Sopranos came to an end, but after a fallow year or two the network bounced back....
...HBO, the home of The Sopranos and True Detective, has begun a great unbundling of costly cable and satellite television subscriptions, striking an exclusive deal with Apple that analysts said could put it...
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