HBO Future
By Variety reports…
- The Sopranos will not return until March. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first of several delays.
- Rome will return in January, but will only have one more season. Maybe they’ll get to Actium? Max Pirkis is going to have to do some aging, and that’s a lot of civil war to have in only thirteen episodes.
- Alan Ball is putting together a vampire series. I’m skeptical.
The upshot is that the next year will see the death of Deadwood, the Sopranos, and Rome, three of my favorite series. I would also wager that Entourage is not long for this world; I love it, but there’s only so much you can do with the premise. The same might be said of Lost. Let’s hope that Battlestar Galactica has a long and fruitful life.