Since fictional mob boss Tony Soprano is out of commission with a broken wheel, it will mean a lengthy delay for the premiere of final season of "The Sopranos". Actor James Gandolfini was recently in a traffic accident in New York when a taxi knocked the tough guy off his scooter. Whaddayagonnado? He's undergone knee surgery and that has pushed back production on the series at least two months.
Not wanting to go up against the pro football playoffs in January, HBO has chosen to to delay the start of the show until early March 2007.
HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht assured the Television Critics Association that creator David Chase had plenty of violence and mayhem planned for the final year. "I know you're all hoping that people die," he said, noting some have complained, "that not enough people are dying and getting whacked in the show."
But he promised that viewers won't be disappointed in the conclusion next spring: "I know the story lines for the final eight, and I am absolutely positively certain that when the curtain comes down on `Sopranos,' the vast, vast, vast majority of people will say it's one of the great things of all time."
