NBC is banking on gritty writer Paul Haggis for one of its new fall dramas, called The Black Donnellys.
Haggis wrote the screenplays for Million Dollar Baby and Crash, and has also won two Emmys for his
writing on Thirtysomething. The new series, created by Haggis and Bobby Moresco, is about four Irish brothers
in New York's Hell's Kitchen and their lives in organized crime. It's one of those "they keep pullin' me back
in" kind of things. The series will actually be shot in New York. With The Sopranos concluding next year, NBC must be hoping that we'll still want our violent mobster fix.
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1-23-2006 @ 12:55PM
Peter said...
Holy weird looking neck, Batman!
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1-23-2006 @ 1:48PM
Brent McKee said...
Good news. Paul Haggis was also the creator of the cult TV favourite "Due South".
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1-23-2006 @ 3:48PM
owen said...
Sounds like he's redoing his 1996 tv show "EZ Streets", the wonderful pre-Sopranos mob drama that only lasted a few episodes on CBS.
http://www.trioplus.tv/plus/ez_streets/
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/02/DDGLFBIBO81.DTL
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1-24-2006 @ 1:31PM
The Talker said...
Do we really need a "Sopranos" knock-off show?
I hope this show gets cancelled!
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