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The Black Donnellys

The Black Donnellys
Television
NameThe Black Donnellys
FormatDrama
Created byPaul Haggis
Robert Moresco
Developed byScott Corwon
Paul Haggis
StarringJonathan Tucker
Thomas Guiry
Olivia Wilde
Billy Lush
Michael Stahl-David
Kirk Acevedo
Keith Nobbs
Kate Mulgrew
Peter Greene
Michael Rispoli
Kevin Conway
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (7 aired online)
List of episodesList of The Black Donnellys episodes
Production
Executive producerPaul Haggis
Robert Moresco
Running time46 minutes
Production companyIMPACTS Entertainment
Broadcast
Original channelNBC
Picture format480i (SDTV),
1080i (HDTV)
First airedFebruary 26
Last airedApril 2, 2007

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'The Black Donnellys' is an American television drama that debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007 and last aired on April 2, 2007. Thereafter, NBC began releasing new episodes weekly on NBC.com until the series was officially canceled. The Black Donnellys was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco. Cast members include Jonathan Tucker, Olivia Wilde, Billy Lush, Tom Guiry and Kirk Acevedo with relative newcomers 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. Set in the present day, the show draws heavily upon Irish-American history and iconic themes. The pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between the Irish and the 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 that the neighborhood is populated primarily by "Black Irish", whom he calls "a race of dark-haired people" that the Celts had failed to wipe out in Ireland. Hell's Kitchen in the series is also a fairly faithful depiction - a traditionally working class neighborhood with a deeply entrenched ethnic Irish population and an Irish Mob with control over illegal gambling, loansharking, and heavy involvement in the unions. Although set in 2005, Hell's Kitchen is shown to be slowly overtaken by gentrification and development that threatens to displace the Irish population, a fate that Hell's Kitchen actually succumbed to in the early 1990s.

On April 2, 2007, NBC announced that the series would be pulled after the April 16 episode. Two days later, however, the show was dropped from NBC's lineup, presumably because of not enough viewers. It was replaced by the second episode of the US version of "Thank God You're Here" on April 9 and the third episode of the same on April 16. The time slot was then filled by the series The Real Wedding Crashers. It was also announced that unaired episodes would be streamed online on the NBC website, as well as downloads available from iTunes.

On May 14, 2007, the series was officially cancelled by NBC. 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 entitled "The Black Donnellys: The Complete Series" was released on September 4, 2007.

Recently, the show has been picked up and has begun to air in several European countries. Paul Haggis attended and spoke at the Cologne Conference in Germany at which The Black Donnellys was screened.

The cancelled Black Donnellys ranked second in shows streamed off of NBC's website, second only to their already number one show Heroes. Since cancellation, NBC has not made any comments about The Black Donnellys.

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Recurring :
# Episode Air date Rating Share 18 � 49 Viewers Rank
1 "Pilot" February 26, 2007 5.5 9 3.5 7.93 # 50
2 "A Stone of the Heart" March 5, 2007 4.5 8 3.0 6.88 # 53
3 "God Is a Comedian" March 5, 2007 Online only episode †
4 "The World Will Break Your Heart" March 12, 2007 4.4 7 2.6 6.53 # 55
5 "Lies" March 19, 2007 3.9 6 2.4 5.53 # 68
6 "Run Like Hell" March 26, 2007 3.9 7 2.3 5.43 # 69
7 "The Only Thing Sure" April 2, 2007 3.7 6 2.0 5.3 # 71
8 "In Each One a Savior" April 9, 2007 The last six episodes were
only released online
in the US due
to declining ratings.
9 "All of Us Are in the Gutter" April 15, 2007 - 8:00 PM ET
10 "When The Door Opens" April 22, 2007 - 8:00 PM ET
11 "Wasn't That Enough?" April 30, 2007
12 "The Black Drop" May 7, 2007
13 "Easy Is the Way" May 14, 2007

Recurring :
Title Region 1 Region 2 Ep # Additional information
The Complete Series September 4, 2007 January 28, 2008 13 Deleted Scenes, 7 Unaired Episodes.

Recurring :
Country TV Network(s) Series Premiere Weekly Schedule
United States NBC February 26, 2007 Mondays, 10pm
Canada Global Television Network February 26, 2007 Sundays, 10pm
Mondays, 10pm
Finland Canal+, Sub September 2, 2007 Mondays, 11pm
Germany TNT Serie September 5, 2007 Wednesdays, 8.15pm
Republic of Ireland RTÉ Two August 14, 2007 Tuesdays, 11.20pm
  ITV2 (part of XXL Thursday) September 27, 2007 Thursdays, 11pm
(originally 9pm)
Spain Canal+ and Calle 13 October 11, 2007 Thursdays, 9.30pm
Mexico AXN November 5, 2007 Mondays, 8.00pm
Argentina AXN November 6, 2007 Tuesday, 8.00pm
Brazil AXN November 6, 2007 Tuesday, 9.00pm
Peru AXN November 6, 2007 Tuesday, 8.00pm
Thailand Star World 2007 Sundays, 9pm (THAI/WIB)
Slovenia POP TV January 2, 2008 Wednesday, 10.45pm
Australia Showcase May 21, 2008 Wednesday, 9.30pm
Portugal Fox Crime
TVI
May, 2008 Wednesdays
Sweden Kanal 5 June 1, 2008 Sunday, 9.55pm
Chile MEGA June 23, 2008 Monday, 01.30am
Italy Italia1 September 8, 2008 Sunday, 0.35am
Russia The Star October 13, 2008 Monday-Thursday, 10.40pm
India Star World November 2008
New Zealand C4 December 29, 2008 Monday, 8.30pm
Hungary TV2 (Hungary) January 7, 2009 Wednesdays, after 11.00pm
Belgium Canvas March 23, 2009 Mondays, 11.45pm
Belgium La Deux May 2010 Sundays, 8.30pm
Netherlands RTL 7 April 10, 2009 Fridays, 9.25pm
Croatia Nova TV November 5, 2009 Monday-Thursday, 01.20am
Greece Alter Channel April 2010 Saturday-Sunday, 03.00am



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