Who created the crime drama television series which features a character named Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero?
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Big Pussy Bonpensiero Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". Not to be confused with fellow New Jersey mobster "Little Pussy" Malanga, Big Pussy was a close friend and mob enforcer for Tony Soprano.
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The Sopranos The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around the fictional character, New Jersey-based Italian American mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). The series portrays the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and his criminal organization. These are often highlighted during his therapy sessions with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco). The series features Tony's family members, mafia colleagues and rivals, in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and protégé Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli).
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Angela Raiola Angela Joyce Raiola (June 30, 1960 – February 18, 2016), better known by her nickname Big Ang (pronounced "Anj") was an American reality television personality who co-starred in the VH1 series "Mob Wives". Raiola was the niece of Salvatore "Sally Dogs" Lombardi (1941–2009), a caporegime ("capo") and drug dealer in the Genovese crime family. Known as a “mob moll”, Raiola dated gangsters and lived an opulent lifestyle. She joined the "Mob Wives" cast during the show's second season, in 2012. The same year, after she became the show's breakout star, VH1 gave Raiola her own reality show, "Big Ang," which evolved into "Miami Monkey." She has been described as a gay icon.
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Payback (Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit) "Payback" is the pilot episode of the police procedural television series "", the first spinoff of the original "Law & Order" series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on Monday, September 20, 1999. In the episode, the detectives of the Special Victims Unit investigate a taxi-cab driver's brutal murder and castration. Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) becomes personally involved in the case after discovering that the taxi driver was a rapist and murderer himself.
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Hap and Leonard (TV series) Hap and Leonard is an American television drama series based on the characters Hap and Leonard, created by novelist Joe R. Lansdale and adapted from his series of novels of the same name. The series was written and developed by Nick Damici and Jim Mickle, who had previously adapted Lansdale's "Cold in July" and was directed by Mickle. The series premiered on the American cable network SundanceTV on March 2, 2016. So far, the series has received favorable reviews.
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List of Law &amp; Order episodes "Law & Order" is a police procedural and legal drama series that premiered on NBC on September 13, 1990. Set in New York City, where episodes were also filmed, the series ran for twenty seasons before it was cancelled on May 14, 2010, and aired its final episode ten days later on May 24. After its cancellation, AMC Network considered reviving "Law & Order" for a twenty-first season; however, in July 2010, Dick Wolf indicated that attempts had failed and he declared that the series had now "moved to the history books".
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Frank Pembleton Francis Xavier "Frank" Pembleton is a fictional homicide detective on the television drama series "" portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Andre Braugher. He is a primary character of the show through the first six seasons. Although the show featured an ensemble cast, Pembleton would become a fan favorite and is often identified by them as the show's signature character. He is based on Baltimore Police Department Detective Harry Edgerton, who, like Pembleton, was an eccentric New York bred African American detective in the BPD homicide unit featured in David Simon's book. "". The character also appeared in the "Law & Order" episode "Charm City".
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Notorious (2016 TV series) Notorious is an American crime and legal drama television series broadcast on ABC. The series, starring Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata, was announced on May 12, 2016. The series premiered on Thursday, September 22, 2016. On October 25, 2016, the number of episodes was reduced by ABC from thirteen to ten; however, the series remained on the network's schedule until December 8, 2016, when the final episode of the first season was broadcast.
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La squadra La squadra is an Italian police television series.
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Narcos Narcos is an American crime drama web television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. Season one, comprising 10 episodes, originally aired on August 28, 2015, as a Netflix exclusive.
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The Capone Investment The Capone Investment is a drama series from 1974 concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era .
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Bada Bing Bada Bing! is a fictional strip club from the HBO drama television series "The Sopranos." It was a key location for events in the series, named for the catchphrase "bada bing", a phrase popularized by James Caan's character Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather". The popularization of the fictional club benefited the real-life go-go bar where scenes were filmed. The Bada Bing is loosely based on "Wiggles", a strip club owned by New Jersey mobster Vincent Palermo before it was shut down.
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FBI on The Sopranos A major plotline on the fictional HBO drama "The Sopranos" was the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's ongoing pursuit of the DiMeo (New Jersey) and Lupertazzi (Brooklyn) crime families. The Bureau's investigations met with varying degrees of success. This article lists both characters who acted as F.B.I. informants and F.B.I. agent characters and as such is an expansion of the main article List of The Sopranos characters.
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Danny Messer Detective Daniel "Danny" Messer is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama "", portrayed by actor Carmine Giovinazzo.
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List of Frasier episodes "Frasier" is an American sitcom created by David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee and is a spinoff from the series "Cheers", which was created by Glen Charles, Les Charles and James Burrows.
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Lucifer (TV series) Lucifer is an American fantasy police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Tom Kapinos that premiered on Fox on January 25, 2016. It features a character created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg taken from the comic book series "The Sandman", who later became the protagonist of the spin-off comic book series "Lucifer" written by Mike Carey, both published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
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Dexter (episode) "Dexter", or "Pilot", is the pilot episode of the first season television drama series "Dexter", which premiered on October 1, 2006 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by developer James Manos, Jr. and directed by Michael Cuesta. It was based on the opening of the novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay. The pilot introduces the series' protagonist, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a Miami Metro Police Department blood spatter analyst with a double life as a serial killer. While solving murders in the Homicide division, Dexter also spends his time hunting and killing murderers and criminals who have escaped the justice system. The pilot introduces the "Ice Truck Killer", a serial killer who targets prostitutes and leaves their bodies dismembered and bloodless, and the rivalry that develops between the killer and Dexter.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American police sitcom that premiered on Fox on September 17, 2013, garnering 6.17 million viewers. Created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, the series revolves around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn's 99th Precinct, who comes into immediate conflict with his new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). The ensemble and supporting cast feature Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz, Terry Crews as Terrence "Terry" Jeffords, Melissa Fumero as Amy Santiago, Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle, Chelsea Peretti as Regina "Gina" Linetti, Dirk Blocker as Michael Hitchcock and Joel McKinnon Miller as Norman "Norm" Scully.
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Hearts and Souls "Hearts and Souls" is the fifth episode of the sixth season and 115th overall of the American crime drama "NYPD Blue". "Hearts and Souls" originally aired in the United States on ABC on Tuesday November 24, 1998, at 9:30 pm Eastern time as a 90-minute special. The episode was directed by Paris Barclay and written by Steven Bochco, David Milch, Bill Clark and Nicholas Wootton. It was the culmination of months of public speculation on the method of closure that would be employed to write Jimmy Smits's critically acclaimed Bobby Simone character out of the regular cast and clear the way for Smits' replacement, Rick Schroder. "Hearts and Souls" was a critical and commercial success, achieving both high ratings and positive critical feedback and is now regarded as one of the greatest television episodes in television history. It marked the second high-profile replacement of the partner for lead character, Detective Andy Sipowicz, played by Dennis Franz.
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The Mysteries of Laura The Mysteries of Laura is an American police procedural comedy-drama television series that premiered on September 17, 2014. It was developed by Jeff Rake, who also serves as an executive producer. The series, which stars Debra Messing as Detective Laura Diamond, was originally adapted from a Spanish television series "Los misterios de Laura" by Carlos Vila, Javier Holgado, and Gregorio Quintana de Uña.
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Big Wolf on Campus Big Wolf on Campus was a Canadian television series created by Peter A. Knight and Christopher Briggs that ran from 1999 to 2002. The central plot revolves around a teenage boy named Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins, who was bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip in the woods a week before his senior year of high school. After the bite transforms him into a werewolf, he fights against vampires, cat women, ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe - even though almost everyone in Pleasantville believes that their protector, dubbed ""The Pleasantville Werewolf"", is dangerous.
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Perception (U.S. TV series) Perception was an American crime drama television series created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman. The series stars Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuropsychiatrist with schizophrenia who assists the FBI on some of their most complex cases.