The award-winning Boardwalk Empire will premiere its third season on September 17, Beijing time, with 12 episodes this season. Boardwalk Empire recreates the dark side of life in Atlantic City, a small seaside city during the Prohibition period in the United States (1920-1933). The screenwriter of Boardwalk Empire is Terence Winter, the screenwriter of The Sopranos, and the show is based on the original work Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by writer Nelson Johnson.