Take a close look at the final season of HBO's The Sopranos, which airs this Sunday: These wiseguys will be gone for a while. It will be at least a year before new episodes of the series appear again. Production on the new episodes is not expected to begin until October, if not later, which would be two months later than the last production run.
Last year, The Sopranos season ended in early April, and it wasn't until March of this year that new episodes began airing. It is difficult to get exact information about the launch time for the next season. With a potential early writers' strike and a still-looming cast strike, some actors are busy with other projects and will be working through the summer.
Source: New York Daily News