Tony ain’t dead yet! HBO has announced that the final season of “The Sopranos” will be extended by a single episode.

The popular mob series had been set to end after a final eight shows, but that number will now be upped to nine, according to E! Online.

“They going to give it a bonus episode, so fans are getting a bit of a holiday gift,” said HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer. “They were originally going to do eight, but David Chase wanted the added episode to tell the story, and we obviously said, ‘Sure.’”

Schaffer also says that six of the episodes have been shot, and that the ninth episode was given the go-ahead a number of weeks ago.

The final set of episodes will begin airing on April 8, and will now wrap up in early June with the extra episode.






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