HBO has ordered The Deuce TV show to series. Set in Times Square, this porn industry drama stars Executive Producer James Franco as twin brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino. Producer Maggie Gyllenhaal will play Eileen “Candy” Merrell. The series involves completely different class of freaks and geeks, to say the least.

In addition to Franco and Gyllenhaal, the cast of The Deuce also includes: Gary Carr, Margarita Levieva, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Dominique Fishback, and Emily Meade. The Wire‘s David Simon and George Pelecanos are writing with Richard Price.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

[The] show follows the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. It explores the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market all ended the bawdy turbulence.

Named for 42nd Street, The Deuce is inspired in part by the careers of twin brothers who were players in the Times Square world and became fronts for Mob control of the volatile and lucrative sex industry from its origins. Franco will play both twins, Vincent and Frankie Martino. Gyllenhaal is set as Eileen Merrell — or “Candy” on the street — a Times Square hooker and veteran with an entrepreneurial bent who is drawn into the fledgling porn industry

Do you like the sound of The Deuce TV show? Do you plan to check it out, when it premieres on HBO?  Does the title take you somewhere completely different from 42nd Street? Tell us.