Everyone stop crying..
Season 6 was confirmed last year
Listen.. David Chase wants to stop doing "The Sopranos" while it's good. Not when everyone starts saying things like.. "Allright, their 15 mins of fame is over. Who cares about The Soprano's 24th season now".
HBO series 'The Sopranos' returning for 6th season
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - HBO and Tony Soprano will remain partners in crime for a sixth season.
Acclaimed mob drama "The Sopranos," one of cable television's most successful shows ever, has been renewed for a 10-episode run beyond the upcoming fifth season that premieres next March, the network said on Wednesday.
The abbreviated sixth season, three episodes shorter than the usual 13, will go into production in early 2005, with all the principal cast members on board to remain with the series, HBO said. The newest episodes would likely air later that year.
The fifth season of the show, starring James Gandolfini as a conflicted modern-day mob boss living in the suburbs of New Jersey, will begin in March 2004, 15 months after the fourth season ended its run last December.
Series creator and executive producer David Chase had previously expressed reservations about keeping the show on the air after five seasons, but one insider said Chase ultimately decided he had "more stories to tell" and too much material to cram into the 13 episodes currently under production.
"I'm delighted that David Chase has decided to give us another chapter in the great Sopranos saga," HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement.
No financial details of the renewal were made public. But the deal will give "The Sopranos" a total of 75 episodes, enough for a possible, and potentially lucrative, sale of the series into syndication.
Announcement of the renewal comes three months after HBO and Gandolfini, an Emmy winner for his role as Tony Soprano, resolved a bitter contract dispute that escalated into a court battle and briefly put the future of the series in limbo.
The litigation underscored the importance of the show to the premium cable TV network, which said in court documents that HBO stood to lose $100 million if the show were forced off the air for two seasons. HBO is a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc.
One source close to the situation said cast members will automatically get a salary boost for the sixth season by virtue of working for 10 episodes while being paid for 13.
Since its inception, "The Sopranos" has been a favorite of the critics, fast becoming a centerpiece of HBO's schedule and growing into one of the most highly rated series in the history of cable TV.