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Published on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 10:14pm |
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From the Guy Who Wrote And Directed CRASH!! An Irish SOPRANOS For NBC This Fall!!
Writer-director Paul Haggis and screenwriter Bobby Morasco – who last collaborated on the big screen smash “Crash” – will have an Irish-mob TV drama titled “The Black Donnellys” on NBC this autumn.
Hopefully, they’ll retitle the show to reflect what it really is: “The Irish Sopranos.” Nobody but nobody is going to check out a new NBC crime drama called “The Black Donnellys.”
Before making a splash with “Crash,” Haggis got an Oscar nomination for his “Million Dollar Baby” screenplay.
The press release:
NBC INTRODUCES 'THE BLACK DONNELLYS,' GRITTY NEW CRIME SERIAL FROM
EMMY WINNER AND OSCAR NOMINEE PAUL HAGGIS, FOR FALL
2006-07
BURBANK - January 22, 2006 - "The Black Donnellys" - NBC's highly
anticipated, gritty new crime serial from Emmy Award and Oscar nominee Paul
Haggis ("Million Dollar Baby," "Crash") -- will join the network's new
Fall schedule for 2006-07, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly,
President, NBC Entertainment.
"We feel we have a head start into Fall with Paul Haggis' 'The Black
Donnellys' on our side and already locked into place," said Reilly.
"This is a high-intensity show that bears its own creative stamp and points
to the dramatic direction that NBC is headed."
"The Black Donnellys" will be shot entirely in New York.
Paul Haggis co-wrote "The Black Donnellys" with Bobby Moresco and also
directed the pilot. Haggis received an Oscar nomination for his
screenplay of the Oscar winning film "Million Dollar Baby" and co-wrote (with
Bobby Moresco) and directed the critically acclaimed film "Crash." He
is also a two-time Emmy winner for "Thirtysomething." The series
concerns the exploits of four young Irish brothers and their involvement in
organized crime in New York's notorious Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.
The handsome brothers fight for love yet cannot escape sinking deeper
into the criminal underworld in this contemporary story of the Donnellys.
The ensemble cast includes Kirk Acevedo ("Band of Brothers," "Law &
Order: Trial by Jury"), Tom Guiry ("Mystic River," 'Black Hawk Down"),
Billy Lush ("Huff," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"), Keith Nobbs (NBC's
"Law & Order," "Phone Booth"), Michael Stahl-David ("Uncle Nino"),
Jonathan Tucker ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The Deep End") and Olivia
Wilde ("The O.C."). Haggis is the creator and executive producer along
with fellow executive producer Bobby Moresco.
The series is a production of NBC Universal Television Studio in
association with Blackfriars Bridge Productions.
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Reader Talkback
Toye from Band of Brothers as
an Irish New Yorker mobster
fighti
by filmicdrummer17 | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:17:41 PM | Second!
by indiephantom | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:18:35 PM | If only Haggis has it in him
to create something as complex
as t
by indiephantom | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:24:54 PM | Read it. It's Haggis, so
I'll be passing on this
one.
by indiephantom | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:26:12 PM | Destined for cancelation?
by shiny_spoon | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:30:36 PM | Hackis, Faggis, Bogus
by Nate Champion | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:32:16 PM | I am not a fan of the 2 films,
but the guy wrote for Due
South
by ChorleyFM | Jan 22nd, 2006
09:48:22 PM | If this is half as good as EZ
Streets...
by drugstore cowboy | Jan 22nd, 2006
10:27:51 PM | jeffmcm...
by El Scorcho | Jan 22nd, 2006
10:35:19 PM | I take offense to this being
irish!!
by cornstalkwalker | Jan 22nd, 2006
10:41:31 PM | For those thinking this
can't be as good as
Sopranos...
by polyh3dron | Jan 22nd, 2006
11:46:13 PM | oh and the black donnellys
refers to these guys being
"black iri
by polyh3dron | Jan 22nd, 2006
11:47:21 PM | Black Irish...
by covenant | Jan 23rd, 2006
12:26:16 AM | This Fall, Paul Haggis shocks
the world again by showing us
some
by Monkeybrains | Jan 23rd, 2006
02:54:04 AM | And there was me hoping it was
going to be about REAL IRISH
Gang
by Spike fan | Jan 23rd, 2006
03:01:24 AM | EZ Streets, Part 2
by Messiahman | Jan 23rd, 2006
03:04:30 AM | And incidentally...
by Messiahman | Jan 23rd, 2006
03:05:46 AM | The handsome brothers fight
for love yet cannot escape
sinking d
by kuryakin | Jan 23rd, 2006
04:45:12 AM | hated million dollar baby
by newc0253 | Jan 23rd, 2006
05:38:37 AM | Kirk Acevedo???
by Supermonkey321 | Jan 23rd, 2006
07:01:13 AM | Why's everything got to be
"black" with you?
by SpyGuy | Jan 23rd, 2006
07:44:53 AM | EZ Streets
by indiephantom | Jan 23rd, 2006
08:18:04 AM | I'm Irish, and I'm not
excited about this
by kentrel | Jan 23rd, 2006
08:54:35 AM | Just a guess
by Bass Ackwards | Jan 23rd, 2006
08:59:00 AM | Crash = Race Relations for
Dummies
by Sean38 | Jan 23rd, 2006
10:01:34 AM | I liked Crash and Million
Dollar Baby so sue me.
by Mr. Profit | Jan 23rd, 2006
12:03:08 PM | Actually, The Black Donnellys
was the name of a family in
Canada
by oisin5199 | Jan 23rd, 2006
12:06:14 PM | haggis
by ZO | Jan 23rd, 2006
01:33:09 PM | Black Donellys
by JackSkellington | Jan 23rd, 2006
02:03:10 PM | Aside from "State of Grace"
by MrEkoLetMeLive | Jan 23rd, 2006
02:20:26 PM | Olivia Wilde is sexy
by Krangelus | Jan 23rd, 2006
02:34:18 PM | on nbc....great well hear
"darn" iand "frigging" nstead
of "fuck
by Spacesheik | Jan 23rd, 2006
02:46:10 PM | indiephantom
by Messiahman | Jan 23rd, 2006
03:49:24 PM | EZ PZ
by Gandalf The Gaye | Jan 23rd, 2006
04:00:42 PM | "Highly Anticipated"?
by jodocus | Jan 23rd, 2006
08:34:59 PM | Sean 38 - Spot On!
by Behemoth | Jan 24th, 2006
08:13:11 AM | The handsome brothers "fight
for love"? Count me out.
by RonaldLark | Jan 24th, 2006
08:51:34 AM | I agree, this does sound like
him trying to do EZ streets
again.
by minderbinder | Jan 24th, 2006
01:37:07 PM | minderbinder
by Messiahman | Jan 24th, 2006
07:52:03 PM | I'll say this again...
by gavdiggity | Jan 25th, 2006
10:40:41 PM |
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