AMC Lands Eight-Part Mob Documentary

Pasadena, California

This morning at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour AMC announced they will air an eight-part documentary series about the original Five Families in the New York mob. MAKING OF THE MOB: NEW YORK follows the formation of the modern American Mafia, beginning with the historical roots of the five groups who started it all.

Utilizing an immersive blend of dramatic scenes, archival footage, and groundbreaking VFX, MAKING OF THE MOB: NEW YORK will begin in 1905 and span over 50 years to trace the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and other notorious gangsters from their beginnings as a neighborhood gang of teenagers to murderous entrepreneurs and bootleggers who organized the criminal underworld and turned it into an American institution.

The series features interviews with historians, authors, actors, law enforcement personnel and family members, including: actors Joe Mantegna and Drea de Matteo; attorney and former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman; author David Pierusza (Lucky Luciano authority); and Meyer Lansky's grandson, Meyer Lansky II.

MAKING OF THE MOB: NEW YORK does not have an official premiere date yet, but it expects to begin airing the first of eight episodes in the spring of 2015.