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HBO Renews Boardwalk Empire for Fourth Season

• Oct 2, 2012 01:45 PM ET
• by Sadie Gennis

Boardwalk Empire has been renewed for a fourth season, HBO announced Tuesday.

"Terry Winter, Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show that never fails to surprise and entertain," Michael Lombardo, HBO's programming president, said in a statement.  "We are excited to bring this unique series back for a fourth season." read more

Boardwalk Empire: Is Nucky Ready to Be a Real Gangster?

• Sep 15, 2012 06:21 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

"You can't be half a gangster," Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) told his then-boss Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) in the very first episode of HBO's Prohibition Era drama Boardwalk Empire. Two seasons later, Jimmy is gone — dead at the hands of Nucky, who finally took his would-be protegé's advice.

"Up until episode 12 of Season 2, we never really saw Nucky pull the trigger. He's the guy who's telling other people to do that," creator Terence Winter tells TVGuide.com. "Now, Nucky's fully capable of both ordering people dead and killing them himself. He's much more serious. He used to be a gangster and a gang leader one step removed. Now, he's out from behind the desk and really getting his hands dirty." read more

HBO Renews Boardwalk Empire

• Oct 12, 2011 03:22 PM ET
• by Lindsay Silberman

HBO is bringing back Boardwalk Empire for a third season.
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Boardwalk Empire Roars Back for Season 2

• Sep 27, 2011 07:01 AM ET
• by Mike Flaherty

If HBO's period gangster epic Boardwalk Empire has a single truism to impart to working stiffs, it might be: It's good to be the king... well, mostly. Sure, Steve Buscemi's Nucky Thompson — Atlantic City treasurer, power broker and bootlegger supreme — is awash in money, power and glamour, but his day-to-day existence is a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, with egos to stroke, law enforcement threats to evade and scores to settle. 

Getting to Know Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon

• Dec 3, 2010 09:43 AM ET
• by Mike Flaherty

He plays Boardwalk Empire's federal agent Nelson Van Alden, whose job — crusade might be a better word for it — is to enforce newly enacted Prohibition in Atlantic City. Good luck with that!

Where you've seen him His stunning, Oscar-nominated turn as Leonardo DiCaprio's mentally disturbed yet eerily insightful neighbor in 2008's Revolutionary Road. He's currently delivering a tour de force as a desperate producer in off-Broadway's Mistakes Were Made.