All the big names are going to cable. We just
reported on Martin Scorsese's work on an HBO series called
Boardwalk Empire (starring Steve Buscemi) and now two other giants of the New York filmmaking scene are heading to showtime:
Spike Lee and
Robert De Niro are producing a series called
Alphaville, with Lee directing the potential pilot episode.
THR reports that
John Ridley (
U-Turn,
Red Tails) is the chief writer on the series set