Vegas is an American period drama television series that ran on CBS from September 25, 2012 to May 10, 2013.

[2][3] The series was co-created by Las Vegas chronicler and Casino screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, who also wrote the pilot.

The Lamb character is based on a real-life former rancher of the same name who served as Sheriff of Clark County from 1961 to 1979.

Pileggi had initially planned to write the idea as a movie but found it difficult to make it work in the traditional three-act cinema form.

Watching The Wire convinced him that the long-form TV series was a more suitable creative outlet for the story.