Last night at Guild Hall, HIFF and SummerDocs Presenter TNT hosted a preview screening of the network’s new original series Public Morals, which premieres on TNT at 10/9c on Tuesday, August 25.
Stuart Match Suna, Aaron Lubin, David Nugent, Wass Stevens, Elizabeth Masucci, Katrina Bowden, Edward Burns & Anne Chaisson at “Public Morals,” a TNT Original Series, screening presented by HIFF and TNT, August 3, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for HIFF)
Guests gathered at c/o The Maidstone for a summer reception, followed by the screening at Guild Hall. After the presentation, creator, producer and star Edward Burns joined fellow castmates Elizabeth Masucci, Wass Stevens and Katrina Bowden onstage for a Q&A with HIFF’s David Nugent.
SummerDocs presenting sponsor TNT will take viewers to the gritty streets and the bright, seductive lights of 1960s New York this summer with Public Morals, a powerful police drama from writer, director, executive producer and star Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan, The Brothers McMullen, TNT’s Mob City). Public Morals also stars Michael Rapaport (Justified, Prison Break) and Elizabeth Masucci (The Americans, Inside Amy Schumer).
Katrina Bowden at “Public Morals”, a TNT Original Series, screening presented by HIFF and TNT, August 3, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for HIFF)
The series centers on Terry Muldoon (Burns), an officer of the Public Morals Division, which investigates vice crimes in the city. Many of Muldoon’s fellow cops in the division walk a thin line between morality and crime as vice-related temptations threaten to snare even the best of officers, including Muldoon’s partner, Charlie Bullman (Rapoport). As Muldoon watches the Hells Kitchen streets where he grew up devoured by an escalating war within two factions of the Irish-American Mob, he becomes more determined than ever to fight back against the city’s dark underbelly so he can provide a safe place where he and his wife, Christine (Masucci), can raise their family.
Public Morals is produced in collaboration with Amblin Television and executive producers Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank, the team behind the network’s hit series Falling Skies. Also serving as executive producer is Aaron Lubin.
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