{"id":23940,"date":"2025-12-02T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:23:16","slug":"fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Season Scores Global Rights to Crime Drama The Westies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Season has secured the global distribution rights to <em>The Westies<\/em>, a new crime drama from Chris Brancato (<em>Godfather of Harlem<\/em>, <em>Hotel Cocaine<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Through his overall television deal with MGM+, Brancato created the series with Michael Panes, who also executive produces and showruns. The eight-episode series centers on New York City\u2019s infamous Irish gang of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>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 brutality and cunning give them leverage.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Westies<\/em> is set to premiere on MGM+ in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith <em>The Westies<\/em>, Chris Brancato and Michael Panes have created exactly the kind of premium crime series we know audiences and buyers respond to,\u201d said Jennifer Ebell, executive VP of television distribution at Fifth Season. \u201cIt\u2019s sharp, character-driven storytelling set against the gritty pulse of 1980s New York, with all the ambition and edge you want from a world like this. We\u2019re confident the series will cut through and connect with viewers globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Season has secured the global distribution rights to The Westies, a new crime drama from Chris Brancato (Godfather of Harlem, Hotel Cocaine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[855,5190,7938,3304,11698,10377],"class_list":["post-23940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-chris-brancato","tag-fifth-season","tag-jennifer-ebell","tag-mgm","tag-michael-panes","tag-the-westies","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fifth Season Scores Global Rights to Crime Drama The Westies - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fifth Season Scores Global Rights to Crime Drama The Westies - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fifth Season has secured the global distribution rights to The Westies, a new crime drama from Chris Brancato (Godfather of Harlem, Hotel Cocaine).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-02T17:21:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-02T17:23:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/12\/FifthSeason-Logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"518\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"319\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/\",\"name\":\"Fifth Season Scores Global Rights to Crime Drama The Westies - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-02T17:21:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-02T17:23:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-scores-global-rights-to-crime-drama-the-westies\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fifth Season Scores Global Rights to Crime Drama The Westies\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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