Bad Blood (TV series)

Bad Blood
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Simon Barry
Based on	Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards (first season)
Starring	Anthony LaPaglia Kim Coates Paul Sorvino Enrico Colantoni Brett Donahue Maxim Roy Tony Nappo Michelle Mylett Ryan McDonald Sharon Taylor Anna Hopkins Gianni Falcone Louis Ferreira Daniel Kash Franco Lo Presti Dylan Taylor Melanie Scrofano Lisa Berry
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	14 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Simon Barry Michael Konyves Mark Montefiore Patrick O'Sullivan Virginia Rankin Josée Vallée
Production locations	Montreal Sudbury
Cinematography	Michel St-Martin (6 episodes) Dylan Macleod (8 episodes)
Editors	Éric Drouin (6 episodes) Arthur Tarnowski (4 episodes Simon Webb (4 episodes)
Running time	44–45 minutes
Production companies	New Metric Media Sphere Media
Original release
Network	Citytv
Release	September 21, 2017 (2017-09-21) – November 29, 2018 (2018-11-29)
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Bad Blood is a Canadian crime drama television series created and produced by Simon Barry. The show premiered on Citytv on September 21, 2017. The series ran for two seasons totaling 14 episodes until November 29, 2018. A French-language version of the show premiered on November 11, 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé under the title Les liens du sang.^[1] Initially intended as a miniseries, it was renewed by Rogers Media for a second season in March 2018, which was broadcast on Citytv and FX Canada. The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards. The second season departs from the book and is fully fictional.

The Rizzuto crime family consists of crime boss Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia), high-ranking member Declan Gardiner (Kim Coates), consigliere Bruno Bonsignori (Enrico Colantoni), and associate Gio (Tony Nappo). The first season also features Vito's father Nicolo Rizzuto (Paul Sorvino), the patriarch of the family, along with Vito's son Nico (Brett Donahue), who hopes to take over as boss. The second season introduces Domenic Cosoleto (Louis Ferreira) and Enzo Cosoleto (Daniel Kash) of the Cosoleto crime family in Hamilton, and Teresa Langana (Anna Hopkins) and Christian Langana (Gianni Falcone), children of a mob boss in Italy who wants to expand their territory.

Bad Blood was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, and Sudbury, Ontario. The first season was largely set in Montreal, with the second season also including Hamilton, Ontario. The narrative is structured chronologically from the early 2000s, in a real-time fashion, also relying on flashbacks to fill in gaps from the past.

The series was critically acclaimed by critics at the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and was nominated for Best Dramatic Series at the Canadian Screen Awards. For his leading performance, Coates won the Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the Canadian Screen Awards, while Konyves won the Best Writing, Drama Series.