If you've been missing your weekly fill of New Jersey gangsters ever since the Sopranos went off the air in 2007, a new show that HBO has just picked up may help fill the void. The cable TV network announced Tuesday that it has ordered 12 episodes of the Martin Scorsese series "Boardwalk Empire".

Starring in the series are Steve Buschemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald, and Michael Shannon. Shooting begins this fall in Brooklyn with a premiere anticipated sometime in 2010. Producers on the show include Terence Winter, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, and Tim Van Patten.

"Boardwalk Empire" is set in the 1920's at the start of Prohibition, and chronicles the life of Nucky Thompson (Buscemi), who was equal parts politician and gangster in Atlantic City.

The series is based off the book "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" by Nelson Johnson.