The Black Donnellys (2007)
The Black Donnellys (2007)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jonathan Tucker
Tommy Donnelly
Tom Guiry
Jimmy Donnelly
Olivia Wilde
Jenny Reilly
Billy Lush
Kevin Donnelly
Michael Stahl-David
Sean Donnelly
Kirk Acevedo
Nicky Cottero
Keith Nobbs
Joey Ice Cream
Peter Greene
Derek 'Dokey' Farrell
Brian Tarantina
Vinnie Culiari
Jeff King
Supervising Producer
Patrick Brennan
Earl
Denise Pleune
Associate Producer
Paul Haggis
Writer
Mark Isham
Music
Bobby Moresco
Writer
Sean Whitesell
Co-Executive Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 26, 2007
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes13
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
Wiki.
The Black Donnellys is an American drama television series that debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007, and last aired on May 14, 2007. The Black Donnellys was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco and starred Jonathan Tucker, Olivia Wilde, Billy Lush, Tom Guiry, Kirk Acevedo, Michael Stahl-David, and Keith Nobbs.
The series follows four young Roman Catholic Irish-American brothers in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and their involvement with petty and organized crime, specifically the Irish Mob. Set in the present day, the show draws heavily upon Irish-American history and themes of family and loyalty. The pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between Irish and Italians. The episodes are narrated by a childhood friend, Joey "Ice Cream", whom the show depicts as an unreliable narrator.In creating the show, Haggis, a native of London, Ontario, strongly referenced his hometown's local history about the real-life Black Donnellys and the massacre associated with their name. In the pilot episode, Joey says the neighborhood is populated primarily by "Black Irish", whom he calls "a race of dark-haired people" the Celts had failed to wipe out in Ireland. The series portrays Hell's Kitchen as a traditionally working-class neighborhood with a deeply entrenched ethnic Irish population and an Irish Mob with control over illegal gambling and loansharking, and heavy involvement in the unions.
On April 9, 2007, the show was pulled from NBC’s primetime line-up. On April 14, the series was officially cancelled, but the remainder of the episodes were made available on the NBC website and on iTunes. On June 5, 2007, it was announced that HDNet had acquired the rights from NBC Universal to broadcast all 13 episodes of the series, beginning June 13, 2007. A DVD collection entitled "The Black Donnellys: The Complete Series" was released on September 4, 2007.