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‘Gomorrah’ Goes Out With a Bang on HBO Max

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentWhen HBO Max drops the fifth and final season of Neapolitan gangster saga “Gomorrah” on Jan.

27, it will also mark the end of a convoluted seven-year journey for Italy’s most widely exported TV show.“In Italian TV, there is a before and after ‘Gomorrah,’” says Nils Hartmann, senior VP of Germany and Italy for Sky Studios, the production arm of the pay TV operator that originated the gritty, hyperrealistic crime skein.Besides attaining megahit status in Italy, the show has traveled to 190 countries, including the U.S., where it ran into snags due to the misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Co.’s 2018 bankruptcy.“It was a big mess,” says Oliver Bachert, sales chief at Germany’s Beta, which was selling the show.

He notes that on top of thorny rights issues, the moral quandaries and the stigma of the bankruptcy effectively blocked “Gomorrah” on its U.S.

journey, delaying the stateside releases of Seasons 3 and 4 — after the first two aired initially on Sundance TV starting in 2016 — before a settlement was reached.Eventually, this led to a deal through which WarnerMedia’s streaming service HBO Max in 2020 launched the first four seasons of “Gomorrah,” plus feature film “The Immortal,” which serves as a bridge between Seasons 4 and 5.

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