Hoping to drum up excitement for this Sunday’s double premiere of The Sopranos and Big Love, HBO has made available a 10-minute clip of the first episode of Big Love (at AOL Television). And as for The Sopranos, well, we did our best, but omerta still reigns there, so no preview clips, but there is this addictive Sopranos Sudoku game (posted, aptly, by New Jersey’s Star-Ledger newspaper).
Will it be enough to compete with ABC’s Sunday night one-two punch of Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy? Probably not. In a way, The Sopranos is about to become the victim of its own success. To wit: Housewives might never have been greenlit without the example of HBO’s Six Feet Under, a show made possible in turn by the popularity of The Sopranos. Still, it’s possible that Sopranos devotees will stick around to watch HBO.
Which will you watch, and which will you record to watch later?
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a no-brainer! i will watch the sopranos and record the sopranos to watch again. i’m desperately excited! housewives what?! i couldn’t be less interested.
This one is a no-brainer. Sopranos wins without much of a fight. Housewives may get recorded, but Tony and Carmella are much – MUCH – more interesting than Susan and Mike.
It’s a no-brainer. You watch the Sopranos, and TIVO Desperate Housewives. The Sopranos haven’t been on in almost 2 years. We’ve been craving, and lusting for it. Although Housewives is entertaining it’s still not in the same league, and there are still those bloody advertisments to deal with. Sopranos wins the death match because I can watch with no interruptions…..
I don’t watch either show…but, if forced to make a choice, commercials…or no commercials?
DUH.
I don’t have HBO and have never seen ‘Sopranos,’ so by default ‘Desperate’. But if I was a fan of both, I’d go ‘Sopranos’ as the buzz for this season is great and ‘DH’ hasn’t been as great this season. (well, taping one and watching the other actually, while also taping ‘Family Guy’ on another TV/VCR. But I digress). And then I would tape the first episode of ‘Big Love’ to see if I liked it, but watch ‘Grey’s’ live.
not that “Housewives” is high art…but it is definately better that Sopranos. i just can’t watch it. i’mno prude, but it’s just too much cussing and violence for me. maybe there is something wrong with me!
F U C K
let’s see, i actually deleted housewives off my tivo list last night because i realized i wasn’t ever watching it. and i ordered hbo on monday after cancelling it after the last episode of sopranos.
Sopranos, no contest. I’ve been looking for a reason to dumb the feeble Housewives, and this is it.
Sunday night is now miserable:
Simpson’s: Jumped The Shark
Desperate Housewives: Jumped the Shark
Soprano’s: Hit-or-Miss. Another season of abandoned plotlines and questionable moments is guaranteed. Hopefully no one “gets the Vito” this year.
Family Guy is the only good show on Sunday nights. (Ok, maybe Gray’s, but we’ve never watched it.)
Sopranos was just off the air with no original episodes for too long. I am going to have to go with Desperate Housewives and Gray’s Anatomy
Housewives and Greys. Why? Because HBO will be running Sopranos a dozen times next week. Probably watch Sopranos Sunday night on HBO West.
I’m getting HBO just for Sopranos. What does that say? DH doesn’t even get tivo’ed anymore.
Sopranos of course! Desperate Housewives is just a mediocre show created to fill the void left by Sex & the City. It has neither the humor or the depth of character that Sex had. easy choice.
Neither, thanks.
Desperate Housewives, I don’t have HBO so it’s a pretty easy choice, lol. I just catch up with Soprano’s when the DVDs come out.
There is no question…I have been excited to get back to Soprano’s for almost 2 years. Why oh why did it take so long to come back? So I will watch Sopranos and Grey’s Anatomy…Monday morning I will be tired.
Sopranos. I’ll tape Housewives and Grey’s and watch both later. It will be weird catching up with the familia though. It’s been off the air for so long that I started to forget what happened last season. However, I do often remember certain images or scenes from the Sopranos, and it kept happening so often recently that I had to go back a watch a few of my DVDs.
will watch Soprano’s and Grey’s.
I’ve lost interest in the Sopranos and don’t care to go back.
Its not a big choice. I can watch Eva Longoria in lingerie, or I can watch strippers and real live nude women on the Sopranos. Sopranos is the best show on tv, and desperate housewives is a mediocre attempt at network tv trying to catch up to HBO.
I will be watching the sopranos. I am so over Desperate housewives.
I’m kinda over both, but bring on Grey’s Anatomy at 10pm (sorry Big Love, love you Ginnifer Goodwin but George is more exciting).
I’ve never watched either of them and don’t intend to. Not everybody can afford HBO!
Housewives will win, because you can catch the Sopranos any number of times during the week, and you have to watch or record DH on Sunday. However, with the ability to record two shows at once on the “Faux-vo”, I’ll record both and watch Sopranos first.
Sopranos all the way!!!
Do people still wtach DH? I gave up a long time ago.
Watch The Sopranos, record DH and hope I remember to watch it at some point. Will watch Grey live and record Big Love.
I live on the west coast so I can watch the east coast feed of the Sopranos at 6 and Big Love at 7, have dinner and then watch DH at 9 and Grey’s at 10. Works out perfect!!
Since this is the premiere, I’m watching the Sopranos then I’ll catch Big Love later in the week when it repeats. Strangely, I don’t feel as though I’ll be missing much by passing on Desperate Housewives
I don’t have HBO, so that makes the decision easy. I would expect DH to beat the Sopranos, since it’s on a network and more people have access to it. However, even if I had HBO, I wouldn’t watch the Sopranos…nothing I’ve read about it has interested me.