T-Day

Here's one thing I'm thankful for:

The Sopranos won't be sleeping with the fishes as soon as we thought.

HBO plans to air an extra episode of the series after creator David Chase and his fellow producers decided that eight wasn't enough to tie up all the loose ends of the seminal mobster drama before it goes to the great Bada Bing in the sky, a network rep confirmed.

"They going to give it a bonus episode, so fans are getting a bit of a holiday gift," HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer tells E! Online. "They were originally going to do eight, but David Chase wanted the added episode to tell the story, and we obviously said, 'Sure.' "

The extra episode was green-lighted "several weeks ago," Schaffer says, adding that shooting is complete on the first six episodes.

April 8 is the season premiere, meaning the last episode ever is on June 3 (or if they take a week off before the finale like they usually do, June 10)



Happy Thanksgiving.