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From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7

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– The three-part docuseries features exclusive interviews with mob enforcers and never-before-seen surveillance footage, recounting the story of organized crime in Canada –
– Crave reveals first look images and series trailer today –

TORONTO (February 24, 2025) – The new Crave Original true crime docuseries MAFIA: MOST WANTED is an unflinching exploration of organized crime in the Greater Toronto Area, and Canada. From Screen Siren Pictures in association with LAST WORD ENTERTAINMENT, the three-part, one hour series premieres on Friday, March 7 with new episodes streaming each subsequent Fridays. Click HERE for a first look at MAFIA MOST WANTED. MAFIA: MOST WANTED offers audiences insight into the ‘Ndrangheta, a powerful Italian organized crime syndicate, and its deep roots in Canada, where its allegedly been involved in drug trafficking, theft, financial fraud, extortion, and murder. The series challenges the perception of the Mafia as an “open secret,” shedding light on the inner workings of a Toronto crime family, and the individuals behind the infamous names. Included in the docuseries are interviews with former mob enforcers Joe Ferraro and biker turned police informant Cecil Kirby, plus crime writer James Dubro, investigative journalist Joseph Loiero, and retired RCMP sergeants Larry Tronstad and Brad Trainor. Their firsthand accounts, combined with undercover surveillance footage, wiretaps, police intelligence files, and dramatic recreations, paint a vivid and disturbing picture of the brutality of organized crime in Canada, and the devastating consequences of their actions. MAFIA: MOST WANTED is produced by Screen Siren Pictures in association with Last Word Entertainment and in association with Bell Media. For Screen Siren Pictures: Trish Dolman is Writer, Director and Executive Producer, Steven Thibault is Executive Producer. For Last Word: Sherry Fynbo serves as Executive Producer; James Carroll is Executive Producer. For Bell Media: Danielle Pearson is Senior Production Executive, Original Programming; Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Development, Original Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming; Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content Development & Programming; and Stewart Johnston is Senior Vice-President, Content & Sales, Bell Media.

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About Crave

Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, with HBO, HBO Max Originals, SHOWTIME®, STARZ, Hollywood-hit movies, and boasts a robust slate of English and French original series. It is a bilingual TV and streaming service, with thousands of hours of exclusive French-language content. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms such as Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, select LG Smart TVs, PlayStation, Roku, select Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox One, and through participating service providers across ten, 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels.

 

About Bell Media Original Programming

Bell Media has commissioned some of Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed English and French original programming, working with the best Canadian independent producers and global content powerhouses. Scripted series commissioned by CTV include SULLIVAN’S CROSSING, SIGHT UNSEEN, CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING, and ACTING GOOD; with unscripted series THE TRAITORS CANADA, MASTERCHEF CANADA, and record-breaking Canadian format THE AMAZING RACE CANADA; as well as quiz series BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS. Crave Originals include hit series LETTERKENNY, SHORESY, THE TRADES, LATE BLOOMER, THE OFFICE MOVERS, and CANADA’S DRAG RACE; award-winning drama LITTLE BIRD; docuseries BILLIONNAIRE MURDERS, THUNDER BAY, and THE REBUILD: Inside the Montreal Canadiens; as well as dozens of acclaimed feature documentaries. Bell Media’s factual series and franchises include HIGHWAY THRU HELL, FORENSIC FACTOR, and MY PET ATE WHAT!?. Bell Media also distributes a slate of original scripted and unscripted series, including LATE BLOOMER, THE OFFICE MOVERS, MARK MCKINNEY NEEDS A HOBBY, EVOLVING VEGAN, THE MIGHTIEST, and more. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. Learn more at www.BellMedia.ca.

 

SCREEN SIREN PICTURES

Founded in 1997 by president and producer Trish Dolman, Screen Siren Pictures is an inde-pendent production company known for high-quality, award-winning feature films, scripted tele-vision and documentary.  Dolman, together with Producer and COO Steven Thibault – who re-joined the company in 2023 – are the dynamic team that leads the company. They regularly partner with veteran producer Christine Haebler on pedigree scripted projects. Collectively, their productions have screened at Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, TIFF and top festivals globally. With a focus on international co-productions and partnerships, they work with marquee cast and directors to make media that changes the conversation.

Recently, Screen Siren produced reenactments for true-crime documentary How To Rob A Bank for Netflix, and produced Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World for Bell Media/Crave and Bones of Crows for CBC, APTN & SRC. In 2025, Screen Siren will produce The Keeper, a period thriller feature supported by Telefilm Canada from writer Graeme Manson (Orphan Black) and director Stephen Campanelli (Indian Horse); as well as Reclaim My Skin, a three-part documentary series for Knowledge Network from Marie Clements that reclaims Indigenous women’s history and authority in North America.

Screen Siren continues to build its operation and strengthen its reputation as a leader in the production of high-calibre Canadian film, television, and digital media.

 

 

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