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Boardwalk Empire isn't scheduled to go to air until early 2011 on Sky, but the new Mob epic is already creating ructions. With Martin Scorsese in the director's chair for the first episode, expect it to start with gritty class.
Steve "my neck is bleeding like a mo fo and I may get mulched in a bit" Buscemi (Fargo) plays the main character, Nucky Thomson, a political high climber who rises to prominence in the 1920s. The character is based on real the real life story of Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, political boss and racketeer during the the roaring twenties.
The show has also cast Stephen "psycho eyes" Graham (This is England 86) as Al Capone. There's not really enough of him in the trailer to be able to tell how well he's going to pull off the role, especially the accent, but if This is England is anything to go by, he should be pretty ferocious.
Set during the onset of prohibition in the 1920s, Boardwalk Empire seems to have everything going for it. To be honest, it looks like it could easily be a film, but the whopping budget and success of The Sopranos probably helped.