HBO is the best. FX comes in a close second with shows like Rescue Me (returns in July by the way) and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Even after The Sopranos , The Wire and Six Feet Under have long been gone – True Blood, Eastbound and Down, Treme, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Ricky Gervais Show now mark yet another landmark line up in what has to be some of the strongest TV programming in any year. Note: Ignore the fact that they also produced the likes of Entourage and Sex And The City.
HBO’s forthcoming prohibition gangster series Boardwalk Empire has the look and feel that I have come to expect from the high standards HBO demands. It is sure to be a TV event when it premiers this fall. Here is the third promo for the Martin Scorsese‘s directed and Terence Winter (Sopranos) written pilot which gives us a great look at lead Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. He is the ruler of Atlantic City as a politician and gangster – making his city the center for booze, gambling and prostitution during prohibition. It’s like a dream come true. (more…)
