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Times are CET (Central European Time). For Portugal and UK, discount 1 hour: for example, Jeff Bridges will be at 13:00 – 1h = 12:00. 11:00 Charlie Rose with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus & Michael Specter 12:00 Charlie Rose with Andrew Ross Sorkin 13:00 Charlie Rose with Jeff Bridges, Scott Cooper and Maggie Gyllenhaal 14:00 Charlie Rose with Kroll Founder [...]

Six Feet Under – the superb TV series – came to a definitive end on 2005–08–21, nearly one year ago. That was for HBO subscribers… The same fifth (and final) season arrived to the Portuguese public television, during 2006, but – very unfortunately –, ALL episodes were deformed, victims of a terrible Pan-and-Scan treatment. There were [...]

I watched it on 2006–04–27, Thursday night. http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/episode/season6/episode72.shtml My rating: 7/10 After the previous terrible “gay episode” (“Live free or die”), The Sopranos is back to the regular quality. In this episode, Arthur Bucco stars, with business problems at his Vesuvio restaurant: as if it wasn’t enough to be down 40% on served meals, his Albanian [...]

This weekend, HBO is broadcasting “The Sopranos”, sixth season, episode #2. Tony Soprano spends half of the episode on a coma, and the other half, being Kevin Finnerty, a solar heating systems salesman, after an accidental briefcase switch, during a conference. “Join the club” is a detoxicating 50 minutes session, that shows how versatile and [...]

The superb TV series “The Sopranos” is back, for its sixth and final season. There will be no season #7, so these new episodes are intrinsically dramatic. As the series’ followers remember, season #5 ended with Johnny Sack going to jail and Tony Soprano running for the (snowy) hills, only to find out that he [...]

Portugal’s public television channel 2: is (re)broadcasting The Sopranos, season 5. Last night’s (2006–02–09) episode, “irregular arround the margins”, is one of the finest: mirroring the previous episode, the focus is on family tension. This time, the problem is not the “children” (A.J. and Meadow), but the “adults”: Tony nearly does “symbolic incest” with Adriana, [...]