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All seasons of critically acclaimed
‘The Sopranos’ heat up TV viewing

For the first time on Asian television, the complete six seasons of HBO’s multiple award-winning drama series, "The Sopranos" will unfold in three parts this year, starting tonight, February 4, at 11 p.m. on HBO.

"The Sopranos" boasts of 21 Emmy wins including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress, and Outstanding Casting.

Starring Emmy and Golden Globe winners James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Nancy Marchand, Academy Award nominee Lorraine Bracco and Emmy winner Michael Imperioli, this realistic, funny, intense and full of ironies one-hour drama series from Emmy Award-winning writer-producer David Chase ("The Rockford Files," "I’ll Fly Away") gives an inside look at the family life of a modern-day mob boss.

Meet Tony Soprano: Your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony’s got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr., a mother he’s trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress, and a psychiatrist to whom he tells all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony’s a mob boss.

Anthony "Tony" Soprano (Gandolfini, "A Civil Action") is facing a midlife crisis and has multiple responsibilities to his family and "Family." As a loving husband and father, devoted son to his widowed mother (Marchand, "Lou Grant") and a dedicated head of a "waste management consultant" business, Tony has to cope with a strained marriage to his brash and savvy wife, Carmela (Falco, "Oz"), and restraining his impulsive and ambitious nephew, Christopher (Imperioli, "Good Fellas"). After suffering a series of anxiety attacks, Tony turns to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Bracco, "Good Fellas"). But for a mob boss, therapy can have serious consequences.

Combining drama with comic irony, "The Sopranos" reflects the absurdity of our times as well as the very real facts about today’s suburban mob life, according to series creator and executive producer David Chase. Part satirical, loving homage to the influences of the great American gangster films, part darkly comedic study of a New Jersey Italian-American family, "The Sopranos" is the first television series set against the family life of a contemporary Mafioso.

Set and filmed at various northern New Jersey locations, "The Sopranos" also stars Emmy nominee Dominic Chianese ("The Godfather: Part II") as Tony’s volatile Uncle Junior, Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Tony’s Nintendo-worshipping son and rebellious 16-year-old daughter; along with Vincent Pastore ("Night Falls on Manhattan"), Steven Van Zandt (a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) and Tony Sirico ("GoodFellas").

Be sure to catch all seasons of the critically acclaimed drama on HBO starting tonight at 11 p.m. Don’t miss the first part of "The Sopranos" as two new episodes of seasons one and two will play back to back every Monday night at 11 p.m.

For more information on schedules and play times, log on to www.hboasia.com.

 

 

 


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