Don’t look now, but nearly 30 new shows are about to invade your television sets. A full-length fall TV preview is headed your way Sunday in The Seattle Times. But in the meantime, here are one critic’s top five to anticipate — including one (The CW’s “Nikita”) debuting this week.

Steve Buscemi as Nucky

“Boardwalk Empire“: You’d think Martin Scorsese would have had his fill of gangsters by now. But the love affair continues with this Prohibition-era drama about Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi), a corrupt politician whose dealings in illegal booze enable him to hold sway over Atlantic City.

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