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People wanna know -- will we ever get new episodes of The Sopranos? The last one aired on June 6, 2004.
The HBO drama doesn't even resume production on the sixth and final season (10 to 13 new episodes) until the end of this month.
Now comes word those episodes may not debut until April 2006 -- a year from now. Fuggeddaboudit!
In the meantime, you can catch Michael Imperioli (Christopher) on Law & Order.
He begins a four episode arc April 27, subbing for Jesse L. Martin (Det. Green, caught in the crossfire on this week's L&O shocker).
IDOL ADIOS: Nadia Turner was tossed this week from American Idol for warbling the sappy Crystal Gale ballad When I Dream. Simon Cowell sent her packing with a "musical wallpaper" crack.
YOU'RE FIRED FASTER: Donald Trump announced this week that the May 19 finale to The Apprentice (live from New York University) will be over in an hour. Last winter's three-hour debacle was a joke.
BRADY BUNCHED: New England Patriots QB Tom Brady hosts tomorrow night's Saturday Night Live, with Beck the musical guest.
TONIGHT: Dolly Parton guests on her pal Reba McEntire's sitcom Reba (9 p.m., The WB). The country diva plays a real estate agent with huge tracts of land.
UH, OH! Here's a bad sign for the new Wednesday night Fox sitcom Life On A Stick. One of the stars of the show, Montreal-born Rachelle Lefevre, has already signed to appear in a new Fox pilot, Pool Guys. Stick was averaging 9.6 million viewers after three airings, decent for Fox until you realize it follows American Idol (pulling 25 million plus).
STACKED RATINGS: Pamela Anderson's Stacked bowed to 8.07 million Fox viewers this Wednesday, well up over its Simple Life lead in (6.27 million).
If you missed it, Global is showing the pilot again Sunday at 9:30 p.m.
NBC got heavenly ratings from its new mini-series Revelations, with 15.35 million tuning in. CH repeats it tomorrow at 10 p.m.
KAY HAS A QUESTION: Legendary TV columnist Kay Gardella passed away this week at 82.
The New York Daily News scribe was still reviewing TV shows nearly 60 years after joining the paper as a copygirl in the mid-'40s.
Imagine going from Howdy Doody to Desperate Housewives.
Stars notorious for growling at reporters, such as Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason, always had time for Gardella.
She also had Bob Hope and Johnny Carson on her speed dial and they always picked up.
Twenty years ago, when Lucille Ball was talked into one last series (NBC's best forgotten Life With Lucy), the seventy-something actress gazed out over a sea of TV press (including this young cub) before settling on the one familiar face from the good old days.
"Kay," she said, misty-eyed. The ghosts of Vivian Vance, William Frawley and then just-departed Desi Arnaz hung in the air.
Then, just like on television, Lucy went "Waaaaa!" It gave me goosebumps.