TV News
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On Emmy night the only place filled with more glittery winged statuettes than the trophy room at the ceremony was HBO’s annual afterparty, thanks to a series of sweeping victories – 26 in all – by the pay cable network’s programming, including the miniseies “John Adams,” the telepic “Recount,” the drama “In Treatment” and the comedy “Entourage.”
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Three years after Alan Ball laid his HBO show Six Feet Under to rest, he has returned to the same network with True Blood (premiering Sept. 7 at 9/8c), a drama series about vampires. So he’s gone from the dead to the undead--at least the guy’s lightening up with age!
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The Sopranos star James Gandolfini has married his partner Deborah Lin in an intimate ceremony.
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It took more than half a century, but the TV academy and Emmy producers are finally catching up with the times.
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Legendary Hollywood manager/producer Bernie Brillstein has died. He was 77.
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Former Sopranos actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler is set to make her return to television with a guest spot on hit show Entourage.
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Actor James Gandolfini has sold his Sopranos wardrobe for $187,750 at a charity auction in New York.
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Sopranos actor Robert Iler owns an apartment in a New York block that was struck by a crane that fell and killed two construction workers on Friday.
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Everyone in Hollywood is asking an intriguing question this week: “How high can Sex and the City go?” After all, the average red-blooded American male will have to be dragged into the theater to see Carrie Bradshaw and friends (although, gay men will likely be among the movie’s early attenders). According to industry tracking relayed to me, an astounding number of American women have a weekend appointment to see these four 40+ actresses in their first big-screen adventure.
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Actor James Gandolfini is selling off outfits he wore on hit TV drama The Sopranos to raise cash for charity.
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This weekend, there is one for the girls at America’s multiplexes as Warner Bros rolls out the long-awaited Sex and the City movie.
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Actress Drea De Matteo reportedly blames her role in cancelled sitcom Joey for ruining her career.
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A Sopranos movie will only happen if James Gandolfini runs out of money, according to former castmember Steve Schirripa.
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TV hit The Sopranos is a cultural phenomenon "equivalent to the Beatles and Shakespeare," according to a group of academics travelling to New York this month to analyze the show.