Guy Ritchie Series Lands Premiere Date & Title: 'MobLand'

Since the success of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series The Gentlemen, the action-focused director has been all over the news, taking on everything from a Gentlemen sequel series to a spinoff movie Wife & Dog to a new Young Sherlock. However, throughout the fall of 2024, we kept hearing about various untitled projects: a possible film starring British acting royalty Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, a possible Ray Donovan spinoff at Showtime, and a prestige series involving Tom Hardy for Showtime and Paramount+. It wasn't until December 2024 that things fell into place; they were all the same project: The Ray Donovan spinoff, once called The Donovans, had become The Associate, cast Hardy, dumped the name and brought aboard Mirren and Brosnan.

The series is no longer directly about the Donovan clan, but is still a London-set series about two families warring over their criminal enterprise. It has also finally gained an official title, a release date, and a new home. Entitled MobLand, the series' cast is jam-packed with British favorites, but it's no longer going to Showtime. Instead, the prestige series will debut on Paramount+ in a bid to keep the audience that signed up to watch Season 2 of the streaming service's other series starring Mirren, 1923.

Everything about this announcement, from the last-minute transfer from Showtime (or "Showtime with Paramount+" — no, I have no idea what the difference is, probably the pricetag) to straight up being on Paramount+ is yet another reminder of why this company, which switched from calling itself Viacom-CBS to "Paramount" only a couple of years ago, is in the process of being sold to the highest bidder. (That would be Skydance, in a reverse deal allowing the new owners to keep the century-old Paramount name.)