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[05/04/23 - 11:56 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, May 4
Updates include: WGA strike triggers multiple series to pause; "Saturday Night Live" reveals guest hosts for nixed episodes; and Paramount+ commissions "Mafia Spies" series.







MAFIA SPIES (PARAMOUNT PLUS)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
5/4/23
STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
six-part series
DESCRIPTION:
(from Paramount+'s press release, May 2023) Based on never-before-released JFK files, the series tells the shocking connections between the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra's Rat Pack from Vegas to Miami to Havana. It explores America's most remarkable espionage plots ever-with CIA agents, mob hitmen, "kompromat" sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue.
CREW INFORMATION:
· Allan Loeb as EP
· Danny Strong as EP
· Ilan Arboleda as EP
· Joanne Lee as CO-EP
· Jordan Bogdonavage as EP
· Mandy Safavi as EP
· Matt Jackson as EP
· Thomas Maier as BOOK
· Tom Donahue as DIR/EP
GENRE(S):
· reality
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· CreativeChaos
· Danny Strong Productions
· Jackson Pictures