Friday night, go see Failure to Launch,, because it was co-written by my pal Matt Ember, and every time a sitcom writer makes the jump to movies, an angel gets its wings. Or more accurately, a child gets another year of insanely expensive private school. Why would kindergarten cost $17K? What do they make paste out of these days, gold?

Then Saturday CBS is rerunning, err– I mean airing a special encore presentation of the pilot episode of The Unit. I assume they did this because I made a fuss about the show. Or maybe because the ratings were huge and they smell a big hit. Coin toss. Anyway, I am told that if you like 24 you will like The Unit.

And Sunday, they’re back. The Sopranos return.

(Be careful with this article–if you read more than half, it gets into spoiler territory.) There is a good case to be made for The Sopranos being the greatest TV series of all time, that rare instance of television rising to the level of art, and great art at that.