{"id":22346,"date":"2025-03-19T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/narcos-chris-brancato-lands-irish-crime-drama-with-mgm\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:17:24","slug":"narcos-chris-brancato-lands-irish-crime-drama-with-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/narcos-chris-brancato-lands-irish-crime-drama-with-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcos\u2019 Chris Brancato Lands Irish Crime Drama with MGM+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MGM+ has ordered the original crime drama series <em>The Westies<\/em> from creator and executive producer Chris Brancato, best known for his work on <em>Narcos<\/em> and <em>Godfather of Harlem<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Westies<\/em> centers on New York City\u2019s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name. The series is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies\u2019 home turf in Hell\u2019s Kitchen promises a financial windfall. Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies\u2019 legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile d\u00e9tente.<\/p>\n<p>Under his overall television deal with MGM+, Brancato created the series with Michael Panes and will also executive produce and showrun. The eight-episode series marks Brancato\u2019s third show with MGM+ following the success of his critically acclaimed series <em>Godfather of Harlem<\/em>, premiering its fourth season on April 13, and the crime thriller <em>Hotel Cocaine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Westies<\/em> will go into production in Toronto, Canada, in July and will premiere exclusively on MGM+ in the U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia. Amazon MGM Studios Distribution will distribute in all other international territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Westies<\/em> has been a passion project of mine, and I can\u2019t wait to bring it to life,\u201d said Brancato. \u201cThis is a story about ambition, loyalty and power, set against the backdrop of 1980s New York. I\u2019m grateful to be working again alongside my collaborators Michael Panes and most especially with Michael Wright and the entire MGM+ team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to bring our viewers another provocative, exciting crime drama from the incomparable vision of Chris Brancato,\u201d said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. \u201cChris is a gifted showrunner who builds his stories around compelling characters operating in dangerous worlds about to explode. <em>The Westies<\/em> is him at his best, and we can\u2019t wait to bring it to our MGM+ audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MGM+ has ordered the original crime drama series The Westies from creator and executive producer Chris Brancato, best known for his work on Narcos and Godfather of Harlem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[855,3304,10377],"class_list":["post-22346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-chris-brancato","tag-mgm","tag-the-westies","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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