MobLand (2025–) is a British crime drama series created by Ronan Bennett for Paramount+. The series is set in London’s criminal underworld and follows the Harrigans, an Irish crime family led by Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, played by Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Tom Hardy stars as Harry Da Souza, the Harrigans’ fixer, a man whose job is to contain violence, manage consequences and keep the family’s empire from collapsing when rivalries turn into open war. The first season centres on the conflict between the Harrigans and the rival Stevenson family, with questions of loyalty, inheritance, revenge and power running through the story. With Guy Ritchie directing the opening episodes, MobLand combines gangster drama, family power struggles and London crime-thriller style.
MobLand was filmed mainly in London and the surrounding English regions, with the city forming the core of the series’ visual identity. The production used real London streets, hotels, restaurants, warehouses, nightclubs and riverside industrial spaces to create a world of wealth, violence and criminal negotiation. The Midland Grand Dining Room at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel appears in the opening episode, while the kitchen confrontation connected to the same sequence was filmed at a smoked fish factory in Chalk Farm. East London locations, including Canning Town, the Isle of Dogs and Leamouth, are used for the series’ grittier urban material, with FOLD nightclub in Canning Town appearing as one of the club locations. Harry Da Souza’s apartment exterior is connected to Craven Street near Charing Cross, while Forty Four The Green on Clerkenwell Green appears in scenes involving Jan Da Souza. Outside London, the production used Hampshire, Hertfordshire and the Cotswolds, including Farnborough International Studios as a major production base, Farnborough Airport, the Farnborough wind tunnels, Overton Papermill near Basingstoke, Rowley Barn in Borehamwood and country-house locations in Gloucestershire. Antwerp in Belgium is also used among the filming locations. The result is a series that builds its criminal world from both sides of British power: expensive hotels, private estates and country houses on one side, and factories, warehouses, clubs and East London streets on the other.
The Tooke Arms
The Tooke Arms appears in MobLand (2025–), where it is used as The Sinful Monkey, the criminal base of Richie Stevenson.
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