'Mobland' is renewed for a second season by Paramount Plus

The good streak of the new series of Guy Ritchie, MobLandwhich announced to have been renewed for a second season by Paramount+.

The first season premiered at the streamer on March 30 with a audience record (2.2 million viewers), becoming the most watched launch of streamer. Later, he broke another record as the most watched series in his premiere week (8.8 million viewers in his first seven days) throughout the history of Paramount Plus.

MobLand It was consolidated as the second original Paramount+ series more seen in the streamer, behind only Landman. According to streamer data, MobLand It accumulates more than 26 million viewers worldwide.

Criticism has also been receptive to Ritchie's television proposal, so it is not surprising that the platform has renewed it for a second season.

MobLand It stars Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren y Pierce Brosnan as the head of a family of organized crime, who fights for power within a global criminal union.

“The plot shows two generations of gangsters, their businesses, the relationships they weave and the man they call to fix their problems.”

Ritchie combines the style of other worlds as Snatch, Wrath of Man y The Gentlemen.

The cast also includes Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwany Emily Barber.

Ritchie directs and produces executively MobLand. Con Ronan Bennett (The Day of the Jackal) as creator and screenwriter, and Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Spectre, The Agency) as another scriptwriters. The rest of the executive producers are Hardy, Keith Cox, Nina L. Diaz, David C. Glasser, Ronan Bennet, Kris Thykier, Ivan Atkinson, Dean Baker, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari.

Chris McCarthy, one of the three executive directors of Paramount Global, declared a press release (via THR):

“With more than 26 million viewers and a figure that is increasing, Mobland has become a resounding triumph, driven by the creative brilliance of Guy, Jez, Ronan and David Glasser, and come alive thanks to the impressive performances of Tom, Pierce and Helen. We are delighted to give a second season of this global phenomenonwhich has dominated the lists of national and international successes and has shot number 1 in the United Kingdom. ”

Executive producer David C. Glasser joined saying:

“Mobland was one of those incredible moments in which Chris McCarthy contacted us the vision of creating the next great series of gangsters and, after touring the British countryside in search of Guy Ritchie, we both realized that we knew the exact formula. With the extraordinary talent of Guy, Ronan, Jez and our incredible cast, we made that vision come true”.

MTV Entertainment Studios produces the series in association with 101 Studios, with Paramount as a global distributor.

As a curious fact we share that MobLand had initially developed under the title The Donovanswith plans to function as spinoff of the series Ray Donovan of Showtime. Those plans were discarded and the Ritchie series was rethink as an independent project and without connections with the aforementioned.