THE SOPRANOS
Channel 4, 11.05pm
This sixth series has taken so long to reach terrestrial television (it has been shown on More4) that many Sopranos addicts will have bought it on DVD. There have even been nasty rumours circulating that it isn’t as good as all the others. Well, don’t believe a word of it. The Sopranos is the benchmark against which all contemporary television drama is judged — a sublime mixture of effortless acting, pitch-black humour and an acute observation of life lived in a perverse microcosm of society. At the start of this series, nothing much appears to have changed. Tony is still in therapy. Junior has gone round the bend. AJ is flunking out. Johnny Sacromoni is in the pen and the