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Boardwalk Empire

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Boardwalk Empire
Genre	Crime drama Period drama
Format	Serial drama
Created by	Terence Winter
Based on	Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson
Starring	Steve Buscemi Michael Pitt Kelly Macdonald Michael Shannon Shea Whigham Aleksa Palladino Michael Stuhlbarg Stephen Graham Vincent Piazza Paz de la Huerta Michael Kenneth Williams Anthony Laciura Paul Sparks Dabney Coleman Jack Huston Gretchen Mol Charlie Cox Bobby Cannavale Ron Livingston Jeffrey Wright
Opening theme	"Straight Up and Down" by The Brian Jonestown Massacre[1]
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	44 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Terence Winter Martin Scorsese Mark Wahlberg Tim Van Patten Howard Korder Stephen Levinson
Editor(s)	Kate Stanford Tim Streeto
Location(s)	New York City
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	50–60 minutes
Production company(s)	Leverage Closest to the Hole Productions Sikelia Productions Cold Front Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	HBO
Original run	September 19, 2010 (2010-09-19) – present
External links
Website

Boardwalk Empire is an American period drama series from premium cable channel HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era. It stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter created the show inspired by the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.^[2]
The pilot episode, directed by Martin Scorsese, was produced at a cost of $18 million.^[3] On September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes.^[4] The series premiered on September 19, 2010.^[5] On October 2, 2012, HBO announced that the series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on September 8, 2013.^[6] On September 26, 2013, HBO renewed Boardwalk Empire for a fifth season.^[7]
Boardwalk Empire has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures, as well as for Buscemi's lead performance.^[8] The series has received forty Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, winning seventeen. The series has also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama in 2011 and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2012.