Mobland Season 2: Fans Finally Have An Answer About The Future Of The Show
MobLand fans have finally been given the update they've been waiting weeks for.
On Monday evening, Paramount+ confirmed that they were renewing the crime drama for a new batch of episodes, meaning a second season is officially in the works.
The weekly 10-part series premiered in March, and features an impressive cast led by Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Dame Helen Mirren.
Chris McCarthy, an exec at Paramount, enthused: 'With more than 26 million viewers and climbing, MobLand has become a resounding triumph – driven by the creative brilliance of Guy [Ritchie], Jez [Butterworth], Ronan [Bennett] and David Glasser, and brought to life by the powerhouse performances of Tom, Pierce, and Helen.
'We are elated to greenlight a second season of this global phenomenon, which has dominated both domestic and international charts and soared to number one in the UK.'
As MobLand's audience grew over the weeks that season one was streaming, it quickly became one of Paramount+'s most talked-about originals, with its premiere episode pulling in the platform's highest ever viewing figures.
It was executive produced by Guy Ritchie, whose recent forays into TV have included Netflix's The Gentlemen and the upcoming origin story Young Sherlock, based on his movies starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
Tom Hardy previously shared his hopes that MobLand would be renewed during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in April, claiming: 'The plan is definitely to see more seasons. The question is: Does it become international?'
He continued: 'There are international elements to organised crime, which are touched on in season one and the control of drugs and ammunition and weapons and people and all kinds of things that go through Europe and from Africa through to South America, Pakistan and the variable commodities that move around Europe.
'There are families that are involved in each European country that are vying for power to have that status to be able to move these kind of commodities through and who polices that and how that fits into a world stage.
Meanwhile, former James Bond star Pierce recently spoke out about one of the show's most polarising details – his Irish accent.
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