EXCLUSIVE: The Sopranos creator David Chase has found his Tony Soprano. Michael Gandolfini has been set to play the future New Jersey organized crime family boss in The Many Saints of Newark, the feature prequel to Chase’s groundbreaking TV series The Sopranos that Alan Taylor is directing for New Line. He is the son…

'The Sopranos' Oral History, Part IV: When you spend six seasons making a show about an organized crime family that rings true, you’ll inevitably bump up against that criminal element, even if you are tapping history to create fictional storylines. If the mob feels you are celebrating their lawlessness, that is bad…

‘The Sopranos’ Oral History, Part III: While the show followed David Chase’s scripts to the letter, with no room for improvisation, the inherent subject matter of lawless men engaging in random explosive violence made for some hair-raising moments during the filming of the show. Read ‘The Sopranos’ Oral History, Part I…

EXCLUSIVE: It was 20 years ago today that hour-long television was forever changed, starting with the visage of a cigar-smoking Tony Soprano commuting from New York to New Jersey to the pulsing beat of the theme song, “Woke Up This Morning.” David Chase’s The Sopranos became an instant critical sensation that…

EXCLUSIVE: It's official. Tony Soprano lives on! In the week that The Sopranos celebrates the 20th anniversary of the launch of the groundbreaking HBO series, David Chase has given Deadline a bit of clarity on the prequel feature film The Many Saints of Newark that he wrote with Sopranos alum Lawrence Konner. Chase…

EXCLUSIVE: Managers Mark Armstrong and Steve Caserta have joined Principal Entertainment LA as new partners. They have split amicably from Nancy Sanders, their longtime partner in the boutique Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management. Sanders will continue to do her thing separately. Armstrong co-ran James Gandolfini's…

Nobody knew nuttin’ today at a Lodi, NJ strip club made famous by The Sopranos, as media inquiries poured in following word from the state attorney general that the club must close. Satin Dolls, the strip club that served as the fictional “Bada Bing” in the HBO series that ran from 1999-2007, is one of two…

Riz Ahmed took the Emmy home tonight for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for HBO’s The Night Of. Bowing early in the season last year, The Night Of felt like it was trailing the race as more recent shows made big impacts. But Ahmed’s performance as Nazir ‘Naz’ Kahn, a Pakistani/Iranian-American…

John Turturro's portrayal of Manhattan criminal court attorney John Stone in HBO's The Night Of is one of the Brooklyn native's most sublime 180-degree turns. Wrinkly clad and plagued by eczema like it's a cross to bear, Stone is a joke among cops and his legal peers. But one night the attorney encounters Nasir Khan…

HBO’s limited series The Night Of (formerly Criminal Justice), a passion project of the late James Gandolfini, is set to premiere this summer, the premium cable network announced today. A specific date was not announced. John Turturro and Riz Ahmed star in the eight-parter, based on Peter Moffat’s Criminal Justice…

Big Dead Place, a passion project of the late James Gandolfini, is inching closer to fruition. The drama, originally set up at HBO by Gandolfini in 2011 as a potential starring vehicle for him, remains in development but has started to heat up. The project, inspired by Nicholas Johnson's memoir about his stint working…

CBS pilot Taxi-22 has rounded out its cast. Joining star John Leguizamo as regulars in the single-camera comedy project that had been shepherded by the late James Gandolfini are Chris Smith (Paranormal Activity 3), CBS’ We Are Men), Lenny Venito (The Neighbors) and Sahr Ngaujah (Last Resort). Smith will play Bobby’s…