There's more exciting news in the world of TV than movies today, with the greenlighting of the Martin Scorsese-produced show Boardwalk Empire announced. Steve Buscemi's set to star in a show created by The Sopranos writer Terence Winter.
Buscemi will play Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, the half-gangster, half-politician character who played a huge role in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, where the story is set. It's all based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City.
The already produced pilot also stars Michael Shannon, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald and Stephen Graham (as Al Capone), and with Scorsese producing (alongside Mark Wahlberg among others) it's bound to keep attracting rather good talent. Scorsese also directed the pilot, and 11 more episodes will start airing sometime next year.