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HBO has ordered 11 episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” following a pilot produced and directed by Martin Scorsese from a teleplay by Terrence Winter (“The Sopranos”).

“Boardwalk,” about the rise of gambling in Atlantic City in the 1920s, is based on the book "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" by Nelson Johnson.

“Sopranos” actor-director Steve Buscemi (“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”) plays the cunning Nucky Johnson, who runs a liquor distribution ring at the onset of Prohibition. Scotland-born Kelly Macdonald (“No Country For Old Men”) plays Margaret, a brainy Irish immigrant who marries the wrong man to get out of her parents' house. Dabney Coleman (“The Guardian”) plays Johnson mentor Commodore Kaestner.

The pilot marks Scorsese’s first non-documentary directorial effort for television since the 1986 “Mirror Mirror” episode of “Amazing Stories,” which starred Sam Waterston. He may also direct a second first-season episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Read all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.

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