Kingpin

2003-2003
1 season
NBC
Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
TV-14

A drug cartel leader and his family try to keep what is "rightfully" theirs.

2003-2003
1 season
NBC
Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
TV-14

A drug cartel leader and his family try to keep what is "rightfully" theirs.

MAMI MIA!

Hide your gardeners! Maria Conchita Alonso (Kingpin, Chasing Papi) has been cast on Desperate Housewives as Gabrielle's mother, Lucia, in an episode slated to air Feb. 19. In semirelated prime-time sudser news, Dynasty alum Emma Samms is returning to her daytime roots, reprising her role as General Hospital's Holly. (But how funny if GH had recast with Pamela Sue Martin?) For more on that, check out today's Soaps News column.

Fri, Jan 20, 2006

Kingpin the Heir to Tony Soprano's Throne?

Sopranos fans who sample the premiere of NBC's Kingpin (Sunday at 10 pm/ET) expecting the crime-family serial to be a Latin-flavored rehash of HBO's Mob hit can just fughedaboudit. Although the new drama features onetime Sopranos guest star Yancey Arias in the lead role of ambivalent drug czar Miguel Cadena, and is directed by frequent Sopranos helmer Allen Coulter, its twice-told tale owes no greater debt to Big Pussy than it does to the Bard. "We all love The Sopranos, but Kingpin is more like The Godfather meets Traffic with a little bit of Shakespeare added," Arias suggests to TV Guide Online. "It's a different show altogether. "When you first met Tony Soprano

Fri, Jan 31, 2003