The Buzz: HBO Series In Production (HBO)

Filed under: Top Stories — Boardwalk Empire @ 6:03 pm

Video features 2010 programming from HBO — including behind-the-scenes footage from Boardwalk Empire.
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Pay-television pioneer HBO has last laugh

Filed under: Top Stories — Boardwalk Empire @ 3:32 pm

Everyone told HBO its idea wouldn’t work. People would never pay a premium for television – and a network without commercials would eventually go bankrupt.  Nearly four decades later, HBO is having the last laugh.

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Blockbuster Novel of 1939 Atlantic City is New From “Boardwalk Empire” Publisher

Filed under: Top Stories — John B. Bryans @ 11:13 am

October 5, 2009, Medford, NJ—Plexus Publishing, Inc., whose Boardwalk Empire is the basis of a highly–anticipated dramatic series from Martin Scorsese and HBO, announced publication of A Boardwalk Story, an historical novel by J. Louis “Jack” Yampolsky. The novel is the first from Yampolsky, described by the publisher as “an 80-something accountant and financial manager with a rare gift for storytelling.” (more…)

Filming in November a Good Bet

Filed under: Top Stories — John B. Bryans @ 10:04 am

According to Backstage, filming on the 11 episodes of Boardwalk Empire ordered by HBO will get underway in November, in NYC. For those interested in making a series appearance, there’s a casting call at Grant Wilfley Casting. Good luck to you!