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Two days after the premiere of HBOâs much-anticipated seriesBoardwalk Empire, the premium network announced it has renewed theProhibition-era drama for a second season.
After garnering a number of breathless reviews, Boardwalk Empirebowed to 4.8 million viewers Sunday at 9 p.m., making it HBOâsmost-watched series premiere since 2004. (Leading out of the thirdepisode of season five of The Sopranos, Deadwood drew 5.79 millionviewers on March 21, 2004. By comparison, Big Love opened to 4.56million viewers in March 2006, while HBOâs proven vampire hit, TrueBlood, took wing with a rather anemic 1.44 million viewers inSeptember 2008.)
Two encore presentations of Boardwalk brought the combined deliveryto 7.1 million total viewers, per Nielsen.
At $18 million, Boardwalk is quite likely the most expensive TVpilot ever produced, and the money hangs all over the screen.Created by Sopranos vet Terence Winterââamong other highlights, hewrote the script for the celebrated season-three episode âPineBarrens,â