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HBO Series, "Boardwalk Empire," Filming in Bed-Stuy

The show's first season won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Dramatic Series"

The cast and crewmembers of the HBO series, “Boardwalk Empire,” were in Bed-Stuy today filming the third episode of the show’s second season at the John Wesley United Methodist Church, located on Nostrand Avenue between Quincy and Gates Avenues.

“Boardwalk Empire,” starring Steve Buscemi, is an HBO series that debuted September 2010 by Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese.

The HBO cable series is inspired by the non-fiction book, Boardwalk Empire: the Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City, by Nelson Johnson. Like the book, the show’s storyline is set in 1920s Atlantic City, at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States and the Black Market for any and everything started to boom.

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Buscemi plays Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, the town’s treasurer, a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster. Buscemi’s co-stars are Michael Pitt, who plays “James ‘Jimmy’ Darmody,” Kelly MacDonald, who plays “Margaret Schroeder,” and Michael Kenneth Williams (of The Wire), who plays “Chalky White.”

The first episode of “Boardwalk” was the most expensive pilot episode produced in television history. Scorcese won the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for the pilot episode.

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It has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards, for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series and Best Writing in a New Series, and won a Golden Globe for best Dramatic Series. In addition at The 2010 Golden Globes, Buscemi won for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series and MacDonald was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.

On the set today in Bed-Stuy were Buscemi, MacDonald, Pitt, Daphne Coleman and a host of extras. In the episode they were shooting, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Buscemi) and The Commodore (Dabney Coleman) have a confrontation during an opulent dinner scene.


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