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Has Boardwalk Empire regained its footing for the third season, which begins tonight on SoHo (Sky 10, 8.30)? The Herald on Sunday reckons it’s become “badder and much better”, with critic Nick Grant arguing the premiere “demonstrates that Nucky’s (Steve Buscemi) resolution to be the best bad guy he can be hasn’t wavered” after season […]

Sky TV will re-run all 12 episodes of the HBO gangster sensation, Boardwalk Empire, back-to-back in HD on Saturday. They will air from 12.15pm on Sky Movies Greats on the eve of Sky’s free-to-air channel, Prime, picking up the series for 9.35pm Tuesday instalments from January 11. The 12-hour marathon also precedes Sky’s live coverage […]

If early reviews for Boardwalk Empire are any guide, Sky’s new HD gangster drama could be untouchable. The Hollywood Reporter is the latest to publish its verdict, calling the Martin Scorsese-directed pilot about Prohibition-era Atlantic City “nothing short of intoxicating”. “Not since Mad Men has a slice of history been so meticulously re-created for television, from […]

Sky TV will screen the new HD gangster drama from HBO, Boardwalk Empire, two weeks after its September 19 launch in the US. The 12-part adaptation of Nelson Johnson’s book about the development of Atlantic City during the Prohibition era will air here 8.30pm Saturdays, on Sky Movies, from October 2. But because it will […]