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{{Infobox television
| name = McMafia
| image = McMafia titlecard.JPG
| image_alt = Series title on a red banner over a map of the world
| caption =
| genre = [[Crime drama]]
| creator = [[Hossein Amini]] [[James Watkins (director)|James Watkins]]
| based_on = ''McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld'' by [[Misha Glenny]]<ref name=goodreads />
| writer =
| director = James Watkins
| creative_director =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[James Norton (actor)|James Norton]]
* [[David Strathairn]]
* [[Juliet Rylance]]
* [[Merab Ninidze]]
* [[Aleksei Serebryakov (actor)|Aleksey Serebryakov]]
* [[Maria Shukshina]]
* [[Faye Marsay]]
* [[David Dencik]]
* [[Oshri Cohen]]
* Sofia Lebedeva
* [[Caio Blat]]
* [[Kirill Pirogov]]
* [[Nawazuddin Siddiqui]]
* [[Karel Roden]]
}}
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| composer = Tom Hodge Franz Kirmann
| country = United Kingdom United States
| language =
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 8
| list_episodes =
| executive_producer = Nick Marston Dixie Linder Ben Hall Robyn Slovo Matthew Read Hossein Amini James Watkins Misha Glenny
| producer = Paul Ritchie
| location =
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| company = [[Cuba Pictures]]
| distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]] (UK) [[AMC Networks]] (U.S.)
| network = [[BBC One]] (UK) [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] (USA)
| picture_format = [[16:9]] [[1080i]]
| audio_format = Stereo
| first_run = 
| first_aired = {{Start date|2018|01|01|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|present}}
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| website = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05pksm8
| website_title = BBC website
| production_website = http://www.amc.com/shows/mcmafia
| production_website_title = AMC website
| budget =
| released = 2018
}}

'''''McMafia''''' is a British [[crime drama]] television series created by [[Hossein Amini]] and [[James Watkins (director)|James Watkins]], and directed by Watkins. It is inspired by the book ''McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld'' by journalist [[Misha Glenny]] (2008).<ref name=goodreads>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1906500.McMafia|title=McMafia|website=Goodreads|access-date=2018-02-26}}</ref> The series stars [[James Norton (actor)|James Norton]] as Alex Godman, the British-raised son of a [[Russian mafia]] boss living in [[London]] whose father is trying to escape from the world of organised crime. It is co-produced by [[BBC]], [[AMC Networks]], and [[Cuba Pictures]].<ref name="bbc2217">{{cite web|title=First look image released for BBC One's McMafia |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/mcmafia-first-look|website=[[BBC|BBC Media Centre]]|date=2 February 2017|access-date=22 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Bryant|first1=Adam|title=AMC Releases First Photo From Upcoming Series McMafia|url=http://www.amc.com/talk/2017/02/amc-releases-first-photo-from-upcoming-series-mcmafia|access-date=22 May 2017|website=[[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]]}}</ref> It premiered in the United Kingdom on [[BBC One]] on 1 January 2018,<ref name=BBCpremiere>{{cite web|last1=Munn|first1=Patrick|title=BBC One Sets Premiere Date For 'McMafia'|url=https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2017/12/bbc-one-sets-premiere-date-mcmafia/|website=TVWise|date=6 December 2017|access-date=25 September 2019}}</ref> and in the United States on [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] on 26 February 2018.<ref name=AMCpremiere>{{cite web|last1=Haring|first1=Bruce|title=AMC Sets 'McMafia' Premiere, Season Starts For 'Fear,' 'Badlands,' and 'James Cameron's Sci-Fi Story' – TCA|url=https://deadline.com/2018/01/amc-sets-mcmafia-premiere-season-starts-for-three-returning-programs-1202242733/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=January 13, 2018|access-date=25 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amc.com/shows/mcmafia|title=McMafia|website=[[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]]|date=2018|access-date=2018-02-05}}</ref>

[[BBC One]] recommissioned the programme for an eight-chapter second season.<ref>{{cite web|last=White|first=Peter|url=https://deadline.com/2018/05/mcmafia-renewed-second-season-bbc-one-1202380138/|title='McMafia' Renewed For Second Season By BBC One|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=May 1, 2018|access-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref>

== Cast ==

=== Main cast ===

* [[James Norton (actor)|James Norton]] as Alex Godman
* [[David Strathairn]] as Semiyon Kleiman, Russian-Israeli businessman
* [[Juliet Rylance]] as Rebecca Harper, Alex's fiancée
* [[Merab Ninidze]] as Vadim Kalyagin, powerful member of the Russian mafia
* [[Aleksei Serebryakov (actor)|Aleksey Serebryakov]] as Dimitri Godman, Alex's father
* [[Maria Shukshina]] as Oksana Godman, Alex's mother
* [[Faye Marsay]] as Katya Godman, Alex's sister
* [[David Dencik]] as Boris Godman, Alex's uncle
* [[Oshri Cohen]] as Joseph, Israeli bodyguard
* Sofia Lebedeva as Lyudmilla Nikolayeva, beauty therapist
* [[Caio Blat]] as Antonio Mendez
* [[Kirill Pirogov]] as Ilya Fedorov
* [[Nawazuddin Siddiqui]] as Dilly Mahmood, Indian business partner
* [[Karel Roden]] as Karel Benes

=== Recurring cast ===
* [[Yuval Scharf]] as Tanya
* [[Anna Levanova]] as Natasha
* [[Clifford Samuel]] as Femi
* Maria Mashkova as Masha
* Kemi-Bo Jacobs as Karin
* [[Atul Kale]] as Benny Chopra
* Evgeni Golan as Marat
* Eve Parmiter as Jennifer
* Tim Ahern as Sydney Bloom
* Ellie Piercy as Sandrine
* [[Danila Kozlovsky]] as Grigory Mishin
* [[Alexander Dyachenko (actor)|Alexander Dyachenko]] as Oleg
* [[Fernando Cayo]] as Guillermo Alegre
*Sofia Lebedeva as Lyudmila
* [[Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina]] as Vadim Kalyagin's mother
== Production ==
''McMafia'' was inspired by journalist [[Misha Glenny]]'s non-fiction book ''McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime'', published in 2008. The series took a few stories from Glenny's book, which documents various mafia organisations thriving around the world today. The series was created by [[Hossein Amini]] and [[James Watkins (director)|James Watkins]], and is a co-production of the BBC, AMC, and Cuba Pictures, in association with [[Twickenham Studios]].<ref name="hr4517">{{cite news|last1=Szalai|first1=Georg|title=MIPTV: 'Drive' Writer and 'McMafia' Author on Teaming Up for BBC/AMC Series|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miptv-drive-writer-mcmafia-author-teaming-up-bbc-amc-series-989664|access-date=22 May 2017|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=5 April 2017|language=en}}</ref>

The BBC announced the series in October 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC One announces McMafia, brand new thriller series by Hossein Amini & James Watkins|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/mcmafia|access-date=22 May 2017|work=BBC|date=21 October 2015}}</ref> In April 2016, it was announced that [[James Norton (actor)|James Norton]] had been cast in the lead role of Alex Godman and that co-creator Watkins would direct all eight episodes. Additional casting, including [[Maria Shukshina]] and [[Aleksei Serebryakov (actor)|Aleksey Serebryakov]] as Alex's parents, and [[David Strathairn]] as a shady Israeli businessman, was announced in November 2016.<ref name="bbc1115">{{cite news|title=Further casting announced for epic new BBC One drama McMafia| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/mcmafia-further-casting|work=BBC|date=15 November 2016}}</ref> In addition to Amini and Watkins, [[David Farr (theatre director)|David Farr]], [[Peter Harness]], and [[Laurence Coriat]] co-wrote the series.<ref name="bbc52217">{{cite news|title=Brazilian star Caio Blat to star in brand new BBC series McMafia alongside James Norton and Juliet Rylance| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/worldwide/2017/mcmafia-cast|access-date=22 May 2017| work=BBC |date=20 March 2017}}</ref>

Filming locations included [[London]], [[Zagreb]], [[Split, Croatia|Split]], [[Opatija]], [[Qatar]], [[Mumbai]], [[Prague]], [[Cairo]], [[Belgrade]], [[Belize]], [[Istanbul]], [[Moscow]] and [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name="hr4517"/><ref name="bbc52217"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hamad|first1=Marwa|title=Dubai in new BBC gangster series 'McMafia'|url=http://gulfnews.com/leisure/television/dubai-in-new-bbc-gangster-series-mcmafia-1.1988074|access-date=22 May 2017|work=GulfNews|date=4 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title="McMafia" se do prosinca snima u Zagrebu|url=http://dnevnik.hr/showbuzz/celebrity/mcmafia-se-do-prosinca-snima-u-zagrebu---476651.html|access-date=22 May 2017|work=Dnevnik|date=15 May 2017|language=hr-HR}}</ref> The budget was several million pounds per episode.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foster|first1=Patrick|title=James Norton to play another Russian in big-budget BBC drama McMafia| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/james-norton-to-play-another-russian-in-big-budget-bbc-drama-mcm/| access-date= 22 May 2017|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=3 August 2016}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = Episode 1
| DirectedBy = [[James Watkins (director)|James Watkins]]
| WrittenBy = [[Hossein Amini]] and James Watkins
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|1|df=y}}
| Viewers = 9.82
| ShortSummary = An attempt on the life of Russian businessman Vadim Kalyagin leads to retaliation against English investment fund manager Alex Godman's uncle drawing him into a power battle between the Russian and Israeli criminal underworld, a world Alex has up to now been able to keep his investment company out of despite his own father's past interests in the Russian underworld. 
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Episode 2
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = Hossein Amini and James Watkins
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|2|df=y}}
| Viewers = 8.67
| ShortSummary = A young woman, Lyudmilla, arrives in Cairo to take up a job as a beautician, only to find she has been deceived and kidnapped by human traffickers. Semiyon seeks to take control of Mumbai from Vadim and needs allies requiring money. He uses Alex Godman to transfer the money through his investment company which Alex does concealing the facts from his staff. Lyudmilla held with three other girls discovers the ruthlessness of the traffickers. Alex is called to Prague by Semiyon who is trying to unseat Vadim from his smuggling operations. Alex's father attempts suicide. Lyudmilla is passed to traffickers in Israel and selected by Semiyon's personal assistant Tanya.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = Episode 3
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = [[David Farr (theatre director)|David Farr]] and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|7|df=y}}
| Viewers = 7.46
| ShortSummary =Semiyon grows his business empire in Prague and Mumbai and a concerned Vadim goes to Prague looking for answers. Semiyon also has plans for a high class casino ship in Israeli waters and Tanya coaches Ludymilla to use her sexuality to discover secrets from Semiyon's prospective business partners. Rebecca, Alex's girlfriend, is approached by Antonio Mendez claiming to be Alex's old friend from university. Mendez phones Alex, who does not know him, and arranges a meeting at his villa in the South of France which he accepts taking Rebecca, as requested, with him to find out what the man wants. Mendez wants to use Semiyon's ships to bring drugs into Europe. Alex proposes to Rebecca.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Episode 4
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = David Farr and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|14|df=y}}
| Viewers = 6.74
| ShortSummary = Semiyon advises Alex not to do business with the Mexican cartel. Alex employs a computer expert to conceal his dealings with Semiyon from his staff. Rebecca is concerned about Alex when she discovers he has a second phone, which he lies about, she takes her concern to his father. Semiyon uses his contacts to discover the whereabouts of Vadim's drugs in Mumbai. Semiyon leaves the decision to steal the drugs to Alex warning him there will be repercussions. Rebecca confronts Alex about his dealings with Semiyon, but unknown to her he has authorised the theft.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title = Episode 5
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = [[Laurence Coriat]] and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|21|df=y}}
| Viewers =6.49
| ShortSummary = Alex and Semiyon disagree on how to keep the pressure on Vadim. Semiyon is arrested for homosexual rape and Lyudmilla sees a way to escape Semiyon's employment; but she needs Alex as a go-between. Rebecca meets Antonio for advice about Alex's business dealings. Masha confides to Katya, Alex's sister, that she is pregnant by Dimitri. To have the charges dropped, Alex blackmails Semiyon to allow his ships to smuggle Antonio's drugs and release Lyudmilla. He agrees to the former but not the latter.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = Episode 6
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = Laurence Coriat and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|1|28|df=y}}
| Viewers =6.33
| ShortSummary = Alex poaches Semiyon's employee to organise a bodyguard team in London to protect his parents and sister. Furthermore Alex provokes a temporary split with his unsuspecting fiancée Rebecca, who moves into a separate apartment. The idea is to remove her from the threat posed by Vadim's thugs, but the ruse is exposed by visiting Benes who has been pressed into Vadim's service. Rebecca is shot in the stomach, but is saved by Alex's bodyguard arriving in time to kill the assassin.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| Title = Episode 7
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = [[Peter Harness]] and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|2|4|df=y}}
| Viewers = 6.15
| ShortSummary = Alex confesses to his family his mafia entanglements. His hospitalised fiancée, Rebecca, has lost Alex's baby and disowns him. His father insists on protecting the family using old Russian contacts, leading to two outcomes. First, Alex meets Vadim and Semiyon in Istanbul to sue for peace with Vadim. Alex nevertheless does not trust Vadim and forges an alliance with Antonio and his Mexican mafioso colleague. Secondly, hitmen targeting Vadim in Russia accidentally kill Vadim's cherished daughter Natasha instead.
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}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| Title = Episode 8
| DirectedBy = James Watkins
| WrittenBy = Peter Harness and Hossein Amini
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|2|11|df=y}}
| Viewers = 6.31
| ShortSummary = Alex flies to Moscow unaware of his father's actions and is detained by Ilya's agents. He escapes and is protected by his bodyguard and Lyudmilla, now reunited with her grateful parents. Meanwhile Ilya's boss at the [[Federal Security Service|Russian secret service]] criticises Ilya's loyalty to Vadim. In a business meeting with Mexican and Russian drug oligarchs, Alex secures his position as a powerful mafioso, even cutting out Antonio. Secret service agents shoot and wound Vadim who escapes to an apartment and then faces Alex in a final confrontation.
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}}

== Reception ==
[[Lucy Mangan]], writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'' said that the show was "beautifully put together" and described the script as "a cut above average".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/01/mcmafia-review-james-norton-russia-corruption-bbc|title=McMafia review – James Norton caught in a twisted web of international crime {{!}} Lucy Mangan|last=Mangan|first=Lucy|date=2018-01-01|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{BBC programme}}
* {{IMDb title|id=6271042|title=McMafia}}

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[[Category:2010s British crime drama television series]]
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[[Category:English-language television shows]]
[[Category:Television series about organized crime]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Colombia]]
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[[Category:Television shows set in England]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Israel]]
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[[Category:Television shows set in the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series winners]]
[[Category:Works about the Russian Mafia]]
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