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[03/08/23 - 09:19 AM]
The History Channel Adds Emmy Award-Winner Michael Imperioli to Narrate and Executive Produce New Three-Part Nonfiction Series "Five Families" Covering the Rise and Fall of the American Mafia
Produced by Propagate and Barnicle Brothers, each two-hour episode will explore the dramatic rise, collapse, and resurgence of the American Mafia.

[03/02/22 - 10:15 AM]
The History Channel Orders New Nonfiction Series "Five Families" Executive Produced by Emmy Award Winner Ray Liotta and Propagate About the Rise and Fall of the American Mafia
The series will follow the Mob from its explosive and violent growth in Prohibition, its golden age of domination in the 1970s and 1980s, up through its heated war with law enforcement - a feud they ultimately lost.







FIVE FAMILIES (HISTORY)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
3/2/22 - 3/8/23
STATUS:
previously in development (2023-2024 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
three-part, two-hour episodes
DESCRIPTION:
(from History's press release, March 2023) The HISTORY(R) Channel teams up with Emmy Award(R)-winning actor Michael Imperioli ("White Lotus," "This Fool") to narrate and executive produce the previously announced three-part nonfiction series "Five Families." Produced by Propagate and Barnicle Brothers, each two-hour episode will explore the dramatic rise, collapse, and resurgence of the American Mafia. For decades, the five crime families, the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese ruled New York and built the Mob into an underworld criminal empire. "Five Families" will explore the history of the Mafia from its rapid, violent growth in Prohibition, its golden age in the 1970s and 1980s, to the Mob's heated war with law enforcement, through an adjustment to a new reality and criminal opportunities, breathing life back into New York's most infamous criminal syndicate. The series also unpacks the consequences faced by the five families when they choose the American values of capitalism, individual wealth, and celebrity over the more traditional values of the Sicilian Mafia. The three-part series is based on Selwyn Raab's New York Times best-selling book "Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires."
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Michael Imperioli as Narrator (Voice)
CREW INFORMATION:
· Ben Silverman as EP
· Chelsea Friedland as EP
· Colin Barnicle as EP
· Howard T. Owens as EP
· Mary E. Donahue as EP (History)
· Matthew Davis Walker as CO-EP
· Michael Imperioli as EP
· Nick Barnicle as EP
· Zachary Behr as EP (History)
GENRE(S):
· reality
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Barnicle Brothers
· Propagate