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Boardwalk Empire
Sign in to saveAmerican period crime drama television series
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★ 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
- Theme music composer
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Opening theme
- Straight Up and Down
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 56 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Terence Winter Martin Scorsese Mark Wahlberg Tim Van Patten Howard Korder Stephen Levinson
- Production location
- New York City
- Editors
- Kate Stanford Tim Streeto
- Camera setup
- Single-camera
- Running time
- 55–73 minutes
- Production companies
- HBO Entertainment Leverage Entertainment Closest to the Hole Productions Sikelia Productions Cold Front Productions
- Network
- HBO
- Release
- September 19, 2010 ( 2010-09-19 ) –, October 26, 2014 ( 2014-10-26 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Has part
- Boardwalk Empire, season 5
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- politics
- Creator
- Terence Winter
- Director
- Tim Van Patten
- Cast member
- Paul Calderón
- Producer
- Terence Winter
- Production company
- HBO
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire
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- executive producer
- Mark Wahlberg
- topic's main category
- Category:Boardwalk Empire
- Commons category
- Boardwalk Empire
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 16:9
- original broadcaster
- HBO
- number of seasons
- 5
- number of episodes
- 56
- title
- Boardwalk Empire
- camera setup
- single-camera setup
- list of episodes
- list of Boardwalk Empire episodes
- characters
- Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski
- start time
- 2010-09-19
- end time
- 2014-10-26
- social media followers
- 25554
- distributed by
- HBO Max
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boardwalk Empire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.