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Patricia Arquette Joins ‘Boardwalk Empire’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 10:55am PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, Patricia Arquette
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EXCLUSIVE: HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire continues to beef up its cast for Season 4. Patricia Arquette has joined the period mob drama in a major recurring role opposite star Steve Buscemi. She will play Sally Wheet, a tough-as-nails Tampa speakeasy owner with connections to local gangsters. Season 4 is currently in production for a debut later this year. Its cast additions also include new regulars Ron Livingston and Jeffrey Wright and recurring Brian Geraghty and Eric Ladin. This marks Arquette’s first major series commitment since her seven-season starring turn on NBC/CBS’ Medium. She is with Gersh, 3 Arts and Ziffren Brittenham.

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Eric Ladin To Recur On HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’, Luke Grimes Joins ‘True Blood’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 28, 2013 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Eric Ladin, Luke Grimes, True Blood
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Eric LadinThe Killing alum Eric Ladin is set to play young J. Edgar Hoover on HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire. Ladin, repped by Innovative and Main Title, has joined the cast of the period mob drama as … Read More »

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Jeffrey Wright Joins HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ As New Regular

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 1:27pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Jeffrey Wright
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EXCLUSIVE: In his biggest series commitment to date, Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as a new series regular for the period drama’s upcoming fourth season. He will play Valentin Narcisse, … Read More »

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Brian Geraghty Joins ‘Boardwalk Empire’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 10:55am PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Brian Geraghty, HBO
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EXCLUSIVE: The Hurt Locker co-star Brian Geraghty has joined the cast of HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire as a recurring for the period mob drama’s upcoming fourth season. He will play Loren Knox, a prohibition agent with ulterior motives newly assigned to Atlantic City. Season 4 is currently in production for a debut later this year. This marks Geraghty’s second major series gig following a recurring role on another HBO series, True Blood. On the film side, he recently co-starred in Flight and Ass Backwards, which premiered at Sundance. Geraghty is with UTA, Management 360 and attorney Craig Emanuel.

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Ron Livingston Joins HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ As New Regular

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 26, 2013 @ 5:10pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Ron Livingston
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EXCLUSIVE: Ron Livingston has joined the cast of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as a new series regular for the period drama’s upcoming fourth season. He will play Roy Phillips, a wealthy out-of-town businessman who catches the eye … Read More »

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Domenick Lombardozzi Joins ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Unforgettable’ Adds Detective

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 15, 2013 @ 5:29pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Dominick Lombardozzi, James Hiroyuki Liao, Unforgettable
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Boardwalk EmpireEXCLUSIVE: Domenick Lombardozzi (Breakout Kings) has been cast in a recurring role on HBO’s period mob drama Boardwalk Empire. He will play Chicago mobster Ralph Capone, older brother to Al Capone (Stephen Graham). This … Read More »

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Globe Contender ‘Boardwalk Empire’s Season 3 Resurgence

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 8:00pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Golden Globe Awards, HBO, Steve Buscemi, Terence Winter

Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine

Rusty-voiced, sweet-natured, a tin mask covering up his facial World War I wound, Richard Harrow, as played flawlessly by Jack Huston, is the type of vigilante one might find in a DC Comic book, warts and all. But in HBO’s 1920s epic Boardwalk Empire, he’s a supporting character that creator Terence Winter and his writers transformed from late gangster Jimmy Darmody’s trusted sharpshooter into a human being. For the bulk of this season, Harrow refrained from killing off any bad guys as he wooed a war veteran’s daughter and acted as the surrogate father to Darmody’s orphaned son, Tommy. “Richard knows how to kill. He doesn’t do it well; he does it great,” says Huston about Harrow, who even puts fear in lead Atlantic City kingpin Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) “I reminded Terry that I was getting an itchy finger, and he said, ‘Just wait.’ ”  Read More »

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Golden Globes TV: ‘Homeland’ Tops; ‘Girls’, ‘Newsroom’, ‘Smash’, ‘Nashville’ & ‘Political Animals’ Make Entrance; ‘Mad Men’ Snubbed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 8:35am PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Game Change, Golden Globes, HBO, Homeland
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Once again, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was far more receptive to new series than the Screen Actors Guild, with a slew of freshmen, including HBO’s Girls, The Newsroom and Veep, NBC’s Smash, ABC’s Nashville, Showtime’s House Of Lies, USA’s Political Animals and Starz’s Magic City landing Golden Globe Award nominations this morning.

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And once again, pay cable dominated, with HBO (17 nominations) and Showtime (7) finishing as No. 1-No. 2 in the network rankings for a second consecutive year. The two networks also landed the most series noms, 7 each. Showtime’s Homeland was the most nominated series with four noms: for best series, best actor (Damian Lewis), actress (Claire Danes) and a welcome surprise, a first major awards nomination for co-star Mandy Patinkin in the supporting category. (HBO movie Game Change was the most nominated program overall with 5 noms.)

Both top series categories were fluid, with only two returning nominees in both. On the drama side, those were the best drama series winners from the past two years — Showtime’s Homeland and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire — joined by Breaking Bad, landing its long-overdue first best series nomination; PBS’ Downton Abbey, which made a successful transition from the movie/miniseries category, which it won in January, to series; and HBO’s The Newsroom. For Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama, which also got a nom for star Jeff Daniels, this is the biggest awards recognition so far after landing a nom for Daniels at the SAG Awards. The biggest surprise in the category was the omission of AMC’s Mad Men, which failed to make the best drama category for the first time (it won in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and sat out the last Golden Globes because of a large gap between seasons.) Also out was last year’s nominee Game Of Thrones. Read More »

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HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Finale Down From Last Season

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 3:21pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, TV Ratings

The Season 3 finale of HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire last night slipped from the end of Season 2. The Prohibition-era drama drew 2.7 million viewers to its 9 PM broadcast Sunday night, down from the 3 million … Read More »

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HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Renewed For Fourth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 2, 2012 @ 10:03am PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO
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Three weeks into its third-season run, HBO‘s Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire has been picked up for a fourth season, a nice present for series creator Terence Winter, who has a birthday today. “Terry Winter, Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show that never fails to surprise and entertain,” said Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. There is no word yet on Boardwalk Empire‘s companion Treme, though series co-creator David Simon recently announced that the series will get a renewal for an abbreviated fourth and final season. In their most recent airings Sunday, Boardwalk Empire drew 2.4 million viewers and Treme averaged 538,000. Read More »

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‘Boardwalk Empire’s Third-Season Premiere On Par With Season 2 Opener

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 12:23pm PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, Ratings
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The Season 3 premiere of HBO‘s drama Boardwalk Empire drew 2.9 million viewers at 9 PM last night, even with the series’ second-season debut. Across three airings (9 PM, 10 PM and 11 PM), the period mob drama … Read More »

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HBO Sets Season 3 Premiere Dates For ‘Boardwalk Empire’ And ‘Treme’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 9, 2012 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, Treme

The third season of HBO‘s Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire will kick off Sunday, September 16 at 9 PM, HBO announced today. Season 3 of the series starring Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Shannon will be made … Read More »

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‘Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Kenneth Williams Joins ‘Twelve Years A Slave’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday June 23, 2012 @ 12:10pm PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, New Regency, Twelve Years A Slave

Michael Kenneth Williams has been added to the cast of Twelve Years A Slave. The actor joins Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt in the Steve McQueen-directed film. Raising Hope‘s Garret Dillahunt, Paul Dano and SNL’s … Read More »

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EMMYS: ‘Boardwalk Empire’s Steve Buscemi

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 10:02pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Boardwalk Empire, Emmys, Steve Buscemi

Anthony D’Alessandro is managing editor/contributor to AwardsLine.

For anyone who found the first season of Boardwalk Empire pedestrian with its decadent sets and deliberate pacing, well then, watch season 2: HBO’s Prohibition Boardwalk Empiregangster saga is more breathtaking than a moonshine explosion, triggered in large part by its tin god Nucky Thompson, the crooked Atlantic City political boss played with pungent deftness by Steve Buscemi. In season 2, the beachside Camelot of bootleggers and politicians that Nucky propped up in season 1 emasculate him of Steve Buscemihis power with an election rigging scandal, leaving the fashion-plaid suited kingpin no choice but to off his rebellious protégé Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in a shocking finale. While some critics scratched their heads in season 1 over the idea of a character actor playing the lead, it couldn’t be more clear that Buscemi’s steely acting was meant for the part. Look no further than the accolades Buscemi has racked up: a best actor drama Emmy nod last year and a best actor SAG win in January. His coarse stares, machine-gun diction and cocksure swagger are Nucky’s underpinnings as the pivot in this gangland’s Ferris wheel. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather taught that such unhinged behavior leads a man to his inevitable doom, i.e. Sonny Corleone. But in Boardwalk, such manners are prerequisite for survival.

AWARDSLINE: Did you realize early on in the season that Nucky’s murder of Jimmy Darmody was inevitable?
Steve Buscemi: No, it wasn’t obvious to me or anybody. When I talked to Terry (Winter) about why Nucky was taking this course of action, Read More »

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EMMYS: Mike Fleming’s Q&A With ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Creator Terence Winter

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 1:24pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Boardwalk Empire, Emmys, HBO, Terence Winter
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There is a direct lineage between HBO’s The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire and it is personified by Boardwalk creator Terence Winter. A lawyer who wrote on series like The Cosby Mysteries, Xena: Warrior Princess and Sister, Sister, Winter found his true calling as a writer/producer of David Chase’s groundbreaking mob saga. Winter four Emmys for writing and producing Sopranos episodes, including one directed by Steve Buscemi. Winter’s followup, Boardwalk Empire, garnered 18 Emmy nominations and eight wins its first season. It’s back for more after completing a second season with shocking doses of killings, incest, bootlegging and treachery that culminated in Buscemi’s Nucky Thompson executing his surrogate son-turned rival Jimmy Darmody, played by Michael Pitt. Here, Winter discusses the season past, and carrying The Sopranos torch that has changed cable series permanently.

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DEADLINE: When Steve Buscemi played Tony Soprano’s cousin in The Sopranos, how far into that season did it occur to you he could carry your next show?

WINTER: I didn’t start developing Boardwalk until a little after The Sopranos but I’d been a fan of Steve’s literally from the second I saw him in a movie called In the Soup. He directed three Sopranos episodes for us and I got to know him first on that level. When I wrote the Boardwalk script I really didn’t have any actor in mind; we had the real Nucky in mind, from photographs. When it came time to cast, Marty Scorsese and I decided it didn’t matter what the real guy looked like because nobody knew him anyway. Let’s just pick an actor we love. I said what about Steve Buscemi and about a week later, Marty called and said, I can’t stop thinking about Steve Buscemi for this. I couldn’t either, and that was that. Some saw it as an odd choice, but Steve has covered every color in the human spectrum of emotion and there’s nothing this guy can’t do.

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DEADLINE: Did you know then that in Season Two he would evolve into a stone killer?

WINTER: Yeah. I knew. Based on the research, as prohibition unfolded the game got much darker and if you were going to survive in that world you had to step up your game. After starting with a guy who was a corrupt politician who dabbled in criminal behavior of a relatively minor sort, things had to get darker for him. It was foreshadowed in the pilot w19thhen Jimmy Darmody tells Nucky, you can’t be half a gangster anymore, because there are people willing to kill for this, and that’s why you need a guy like me. Eventually we had to see Nucky cross that line himself. Read More »

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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Reunion: Steve Buscemi, Michael Shannon, Michael Pitt

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 9:55pm PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Emmys, HBO, Michael Pitt, Steve Buscemi, Terence Winter

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Fans of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire will be keen to know that Season 3 will pick up “15 months in the future from the end of season two,” as executive producer and series creator Terence Winter confided to a nearly packed house at the Leonard Goldenson Theatre tonight at the TV Academy in North Hollywood. “It’s New Year’s Eve 1922, going into 1923,” Winter teased the crowd. “The world has changed quite a bit,” Winter noted of the ongoing Prohibition era. “Things have gotten quite a bit more violent as Prohibition has gone on and people are running out of liquor. Hence Nucky’s world’s going to change.” Winter added that the upcoming season slated to begin in September will see a rise of gangsters like Al Capone and lots of “consequences and ramifications from what went on at the end of Season 2.” The young, now-orphaned son of the dead Jimmy Darmody who was played by Michael Pitt, will continue to be a part of the series, Winter added.

Is there a trumpet player in Boardwalk‘s future? Alluding to an earlier possible slip of tongue by actor Michael Shannon, Winter also jokingly promised that they’ve “got the band going.” Shannon, who plays disgraced Prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden, elicited sharp looks from Winter and star Steve Buscemi during the Evening With Boardwalk Empire event when he interjected, “Time to be someone else.” He quickly added, “Luckily I can play the trumpet,” to which Winter mockingly observed, “Oh. Thanks for giving it away.”

The liquor may not have been flowing speakeasy style, but the Atlantic City gang was all there. In addition to Buscemi, Shannon and Winter, the acclaimed Prohibition era series’ Kelly Macdonald, Vincent Piazza, Gretchen Mol, Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael Kenneth Williams took the stage at the Television Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre to discuss the past and, many hoped, the future of Boardwalk Empire. While recently announced Season three regular Bobby Cannavale was not there, former series star Pitt was very much in evidence. Read More »

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‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ’30 Rock’, ‘Big Bang’ Nominated At Monte Carlo

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 1:24pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones

U.S. series nominees at the 52nd Monte Carlo Television Festival in the drama category are Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Game of Thrones (HBO) and The Good Wife (CBS Studios International). Comedy series nominees are 30 Rock (NBC Universal), The Big Bang Theory (CBS Studios International) and Modern Family (Twentieth Century Fox … Read More »

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Three Actors Book Recurring Gigs On Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 6:00am PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Burn Notice
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Chris Caldovino (The Sopranos) has joined the cast of another HBO mob drama, Prohibition-era series Boardwalk Empire, as a recurring. The actor, repped by Momentum Talent and McGowan Management, will play Tonino, a driver and strong arm.

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Tammy Blanchard To Do Arc On ‘The Big C’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Adds Duo As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Tammy Blanchard, The Big C
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Tammy Blanchard has booked a three-episode arc on the Showtime dark comedy series The Big C. She will play Giselle, a sexy, married, and uninhibited pilates instructor who enters into an unconventional relationship with Cathy’s (Laura Linney) brother Sean (John … Read More »

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