I Think I'm Setting the DVR Already...

From Hollywood Reporter:

Wahlberg, Scorsese Launching Boardwalk Empire

The Departed's Mark Wahlberg and Martin Scorsese are re-teaming to create a new drama series for HBO based on Atlantic City's growth from sleepy seaside town to entertainment and gambling mecca. Scorsese will executive produce with Wahlberg and Leverage Management's Stephen Levinson (Wahlberg and Levinson already executive produce Entourage and the upcoming drama In Treatment). The project is being developed in conjunction with the Nelson Johnson book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, which HBO has optioned. Scorsese previously visited Atlantic City in his 1986 movie The Color of Money.

Wow... anybody who saw The Departed and Boogie Nights knows that Mark Wahlberg is becoming an acting tour-de-force (sometime watch the E! True Hollywood Story on Marky Mark on his rise from underwear model to Academy Award nominee actor... one of the truly great episodes). And Scorsese... all you have to say is Goodfellas and Departed and I'm in. These two put together, plus Atlantic City as a backdrop... I think this will be the new go-to for Jersey insanity once The Sopranos exits the airwaves late this spring.