Boardwalk Empire
American period crime drama television series
TV series · TMDB
★ 8.0Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
- Aired
- 2010–2014
- Seasons
- 5 · 56 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Terence Winter
- Network
- HBO
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
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Key facts
- Genre
- Crime drama Period drama Serial drama
- Created by
- Terence Winter
- Based on
- Boardwalk Empire:, The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City , by Nelson Johnson
- Showrunner
- Terence Winter
Article
Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. The series stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show, inspired by Nelson Johnson's 2002 non-fiction book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, about the historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.
The pilot episode was directed by Martin Scorsese and produced at a cost of $18 million. On September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes. The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and its five-season run of 56 episodes ended on October 26, 2014.
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