So how do HBO's new chiefs, Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo, think "The Sopranos" ended last month?

Plepler, who's the network's co-president, thinks that what "Sopranos" creator David Chase was telling us is that "you reap what you sow."

"This is a guy who's going to have to live a life of eternal vigilance," said Plepler, speaking of Tony Soprano, not Chase (who probably should keep his eyes open from now on, too).

And Lombardo, president of the network's programming group?

"I don't know, because my TV went out."