Remember the good old days, when some people still believed it was possible to fall in love on The Bachelor? Well now, the hopes of that happening are about as empty as the champagne bottles after a rose ceremony on the reality TV matchmaking series, which is no longer even trying to convince us it's a legit breeding ground for pure romance.

Never one to shy away from putting gangland dramas on film, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is now bringing an underworld story to television as executive producer of upcoming HBO series "Boardwalk Empire". The filmmaker said he had been eyeing the opportunity to work on an HBO series for years, noting "it's very different from television of ...