Sopranos creator David Chase has said the show will definitely end after the forthcoming episodes.
The 12-part sixth season begins in the US in March, followed by eight "bonus" episodes in January 2007.
Chase said at a press event in Pasadena: "There will be these 12 (forthcoming episodes) and then another eight, and that will be the end."
The show's network HBO had refused to state if the extra episodes announced last summer would be the last.
Chase also said little about how the upcoming episodes would unfold, or how the series would end.
Chase went on to cast doubt on speculation about a feature movie version of the show, which stars James Gandolfini as the conflicted New Jersey mob boss and family man Tony Soprano.
"We haven't talked about it in a long time. ... It's hard to see how it would work," Chase said. "I think what we're going to be doing the next year and a half would have been that movie."
The Emmy award-winning show's star James Gandolfini, who plays Tony Soprano, said he was ready to move on.
"I'm too tired to be a tough guy or any of that stuff anymore. We pretty much used all that up in this show."
The actor added he was working on plans to produce and star in a feature film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with pioneering war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
Gellhorn covered the Spanish Civil War with Hemingway during the 1930s and became his third wife.
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