Sopranos on A&E

[spaceman]

The good news: Seeing the gang again in the first episode is great. It's like seeing it all over again.

The bad news: Hearing AJ say, "What, no friggin' ziti?"

 

[Angola!]

I was wondering if there would be swearing. I take it there isn't? Also, how do you watch The Sopranos with no hardcore violence, adult content or swearing? Won't they have to delete like half of the episodes?

 

[slappy4428]

I was wondering if there would be swearing. I take it there isn't? Also, how do you watch The Sopranos with no hardcore violence, adult content or swearing? Won't they have to delete like half of the episodes?

Just like the chicks do with Sex in the City....

 

[Angola!]

I was wondering if there would be swearing. I take it there isn't? Also, how do you watch The Sopranos with no hardcore violence, adult content or swearing? Won't they have to delete like half of the episodes?

Just like the chicks do with Sex in the City....

I've never seen that show. Please elaborate.

 

[slappy4428]

I was wondering if there would be swearing. I take it there isn't? Also, how do you watch The Sopranos with no hardcore violence, adult content or swearing? Won't they have to delete like half of the episodes?

Just like the chicks do with Sex in the City....

I've never seen that show. Please elaborate.

Original was heavy on the adult sexual content... which, when it came to Kim Cattrall, was a good thing,...

 

[Trey Beamon]

Sweet. I hadn't heard about this.

 

[Angola!]

I heard they are showing two every week until the new season starts. Is that true?

 

[melock]

In the first one Paulie Walnuts says ****. That was the only curse I heard tonight.

 

[spaceman]

i heard **** and asshole, but no f-bombs.

and they cut some of the gratuitous bada bing nudity.

 

[Angola!]

and they cut some of the gratuitous bada bing nudity.

Damn, those are some of the best scenes.

 

[wickedwritah]

Original was heavy on the adult sexual content... which, when it came to Kim Cattrall, was a good thing,...

Sarah Jessica Parker said in one interview that the editing on the TBS version wasn't very heavy. Anyone care to confirm?

As long as The L Word doesn't end up being sliced and diced (wrong cliche, perhaps?) to air on some "mainstream" channel ...

 

[Dedo]

The show actually required very little editing to be shown on A&E. I remember reading a few years ago that Chase always shot alternate scenes with toned-down language, anticipating that the show would eventually be syndicated.

Pretty good foresight. Or maybe the idea came to him during a dream involving a vending machine, macaroni, a talking fish and Annette Bening...

 

[sportschick]

They shot alternate versions of scenes for Sex in the City too.

 

[spup1122]

Sex in the City really wasn't edited that much for it's run on TBS. The few episodes I've seen on TBS are almost exactly the same as the HBO versions.

BET is just bleeping out some words in The Wire, for what it's worth.

 

[Bob Slydell]

I tried watching Sporanos on A&E, and was disappointed. I want my gratuitous violence, language and nudity enedited. The Bada needs to have some Bing to it.

As far as Sex & the City, it's pretty enjoyable on TBS. Aside from no nudity and some language editing, it's basically the same show.

 

[slappy4428]

I'd forgotten how annoying Nancy Marchand's character was on the show... a long way from Mrs. Pynchon

 

[Chef]

This is frickin' unacceptable.

 

[JR]

There's a network up here --the Telalatino Network--hat runs it every night at 11:00, completely unedited. And for the benefit of the close to 500,000 Italian Canadians living in the Toronto area, they're also showing it dubbed in Italian.

 

[ballscribe]

I think our lovely country runs it on a major broadcast network (CTV), also unedited, no?
Viva la Canada.

It was astonishing to watch those early episodes last night, not for the bleeping (which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be), but for how good it was then. It was so good a show back then that you could take out the extraneous cussing and body parts and it still holds up, big time.

Meadow went from a chubby in the pilot to skinny as a rail in episode 2. Everyone looks so young, especially Gandolfini. Even his accent was different. I'd forgotten how good that show was in its early days, given the unevenness of the last couple of seasons. And how good Nancy Marchand was.

 

[cougargirl]

I think our lovely country runs it on a major broadcast network (CTV), also unedited, no?
Viva la Canada.

It was astonishing to watch those early episodes last night, not for the bleeping (which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be), but for how good it was then. It was so good a show back then that you could take out the extraneous cussing and body parts and it still holds up, big time.

Meadow went from a chubby in the pilot to skinny as a rail in episode 2. Everyone looks so young, especially Gandolfini. Even his accent was different. I'd forgotten how good that show was in its early days, given the unevenness of the last couple of seasons. And how good Nancy Marchand was.

Agreed. I'd never seen the pilot and the first two things that surprised me were how young the cast was and how dark the humor was. My parents got a kick out of Nancy Marchand's character and now I can see why - her mannerisms were just like my late grandmother's (RIP) after my grandfather (RIP) passed away, despite all the efforts that my father made.