As it did with TBS for ``Sex and the City,'' HBO will collaborate with A&E on crafting sanitized versions of ``Sopranos'' episodes that will be edited for any violent or sexual images and obscenities that wouldn't pass muster with advertisers or A&E's standards and practices department.

``Sopranos'' also was produced with so-called ``coverage'' shots: alternate scenes with cleaner language - and maybe even pasties on the strippers' private parts at Tony Soprano's favorite haunt, the Bada Bing.

# posted by Gerry Canavan @ 4:27 PM  |