From Boardwalk Empire's Michael Pitt to "Fairly Legal's" Sarah Shahi, "Dawson's Creek" was a breeding ground for several of today's TV actors.

The casting of the Warner Brothers and Jaume Collet-Serra $90 million adaptation of Akira is rolling along, with Garret Hedlund likely playing Kaneda, Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter playing Colonel Shikishima and Lady Miyako, and Kristen Stewart offered the role of Kei, who is being renamed "Ky" because Americans no pronounce Japanese smart, hurr durr derp.

In general, I try to avoid the day-to-day awfulness of entertainment "journalism," because if I made a habit of thinking about Variety's hacky, stupid prose or Michael Ausiello's shameless abuse of the word "exclusive," then my head would explode.

Sunday night -- preceding their less critically acclaimed fare -- HBO aired a new promo to season two of Boardwalk Empire.

Even though "Boardwalk Empire" received countless accolades and critical acclaim over the last year, I sometimes forget how much I enjoyed the HBO drama's first season.

This past Sunday's episode of "Boardwalk Empire" ("The Emerald City") may have been the most badass episode of an already badass show.

If you didn't watch the first episode of "The Pacific" on Sunday night, I'll spare you the lecture and merely inform you that you also missed the debut of the new trailer for "Boardwalk Empire" (video below), the Prohibition-era drama produced by Martin Scorsese.