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Current Season: Name To Be Determined

Romeo & Juliet: Detectives & Crime Family

Premise: Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.
Tone: Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities
Genre: Crime Drama with Soap Opera
Setting: Providence, RI

Details Brainstorm

• Play both sides?
  • Large cast
• Generation after marriage?
• Righteous and the unjust
• A will?
  • Fight over the children?
    • Children in trust?
• Focus on two families
• Children are focus?
• Children are not protagonists
• End with spotlight on family heads
• Questionably lawful city?
• Irish mob was the force, but pushed out by Italian mafia. Many Irish then joined the police. May be relegated to background element or second season.

Franchise Brainstorm

• Violence
  • Abuse
  • Aftermath of violence
• Occupational scene
• Unexpected character twists
  • Characters don’t expect each others’ actions
  • Bard’s tongue
• No truly happy endings
• Continuing theme of decoupling and coming apart
• Indication of similarity between families
• Visceral actions
  • Swearing
  • Racism
• Alteration of perception – Reversal
• Children mirror events
• Narrator – one of the children
• Children as objects

Creegan Family

• Eddy: Police Chief Jonathan Creegan -- father was former Irish mobster? Made a promise to his son (Romeo). One of the executors of the will.
• Russell: ?? Creegan -- supporting character.
• Kelley: ?? Creegan -- recent divorcee. Loved Franco, but married the "next best" guy.
• David: Lt. ?? Creegan -- owned and/or blackmailed by Vitagliano, in love with Juliet. Works directly for Jonathan.

Vitagliano Family

• Joe: Dona Esmaretta Vitagliano -- Grieving wife of the don, current matriarch of la familia. One of the executors of the will.
• Ned: Franco Vitagliano -- Loyal family thug. Second brother, relatively rank-and-file. Lives by a code. Helped dispose of corrupt member of the Creegan family.
• Michelle: Father Salvatore Vitagliano -- Priest. Moral conscience of the families.
• Jason: ?? Vitagliano -- Young turk.

Character Brainstorm

• Upstanding son (Michael Corleone)
• Ambitious young turk
• Higher-up crime dood from outside
• Blunt outsider
• Shifty foreigner
• Secret lovers
• Narrator
• Black sheep – conscience?
• Servant (pool boy, gardener)
• Pawns
• Militant person X
• Detective loyal son
• Easy-going con man
• Police chief’s daughter
• Manipulative older advisor with suspect motives
• Trophy wife
• Manipulative wife
• Father confessor to both families
• Golden Boy
• Local bartender
• Surviving sibling of married couple
• Public defender
• Back from College

Recommended Viewing

• The Godfather, Part One
• The Departed
• In the Line of Fire
• The Shield
• The Black Donnellys

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Air Dates

Showtime: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Network: CCPN

Title	Episode	Air Date
TBA	100	Monday, June 16th, 2008
Untitled Episode; No Ned.
TBA	101	Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Will; No Ned. Set-up episode.
TBA	102	Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Family Tradition; Casting notes: Family man and divorcee. (Creegan spotlight)
TBA	103	Monday, July 14th, 2008
The Wages of Sin; Casting notes: priest and turk. (Vitagliano spotlight)
TBA	104	Monday, July 21st, 2007
Loyalty; Casting notes: Ex-con and blackmailed lieutenant.
TBA	105	Monday, July 28th, 2007
War and Conflict; Casting notes: Donna and police chief.