Doesn’t it feel like television is moving into a new golden age? Everything from hour dramas to half-hour comedies is as impressive as ever and top filmmaking talent continues to make the jump. We’ve already seen Martin Scorsese’s impact with “Boardwalk Empire” this year and if there’s one thing I’m looking forward to on the small screen, it’s the upcoming Michael Mann/David Milch horse race drama “Luck” on, where else, HBO.
This is a powerhouse partnership by anyone’s measure, and that’s before you even get to the talent in front of the camera (Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte will star). Both of these guys, Mann and Milch, are alphas, to quote one actor I talked to about the show at a festival last year (who has worked with both and who shall remain nameless). But they’re also creative beasts.
Geoff Boucher wrote a piece for this weekend’s LA Times and, of course, touches on that little nugget of intrigue. He gets quotes from Hoffman, Mann and Milch on the matter, as well as HBO programming president Michael Lombardo (misidentified as David Lombardo).