Before Young Sherlock Season 2, Guy Ritchie Is Officially Taking Over Streaming With 2 More Shows

Published Sep 28, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

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Guy Ritchie triumphantly returned to the world of Sherlock Holmes in 2026 with Young Sherlock. After previously directing Robert Downey Jr.'s two big-screen adventures, Ritchie returned to Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe for a small-screen outing on Prime Video. This time, Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes during the future detective's formative, and rebellious, years at Oxford. It may not be connected to the 2009 and 2011 movies, but its energetic visual style and sharp dialogue make Ritchie’s creative influence unmistakable.

With solid reviews, and 84% Rotten Tomatoes score, and a season 2 renewal from Amazon, it's safe to say Young Sherlock was a successful venture for Guy Ritchie. However, he doesn't need to wait for Sherlock’s return to dominate streaming. He currently has two more shows sitting in different platforms' global top 10s. At the time of writing, MobLand is the world's #1 Paramount+ show, while The Gentlemen sits at #5 globally on Netflix (via Flixpatrol).

Both series return Guy Ritchie to familiar territory. MobLand, on which Ritchie is an executive producer, follows fixer Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) as he navigates the violent Harrigan crime family's London empire. Meanwhile, The Gentlemen builds on the movie of the same name, but this time focusing on Eddie Horniman (Theo James), an aristocrat who unexpectedly inherits a major cannabis operation. Alongside Young Sherlock, their success proves that the director behind Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch has quietly become one of streaming's most dependable creators.

MobLand Is A Classic Guy Ritchie London Crime Saga

Paramount+’s MobLand feels engineered to appeal to Guy Ritchie fans. Created by Ronan Bennett, the mind behind Top Boy and The Day of the Jackal, MobLand revolves around the Harrigans, a powerful London crime family led by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve (Helen Mirren). Caught between the Harrigans and their enemies is Tom Hardy’s Harry, the exceptionally capable fixer responsible for preventing every escalating crisis from destroying the family.

The premise alone places MobLand directly in Guy Ritchie territory. It’s filled with dangerous London gangsters, dysfunctional criminal families, violent confrontations, dark comedy, double-crosses, and characters constantly trying to gain an advantage over one another. MobLand season 2, which premiered on September 18, expands the conflict as new rivals threaten the Harrigans' already unstable empire.

It may not be created by him directly, but the Paramount+ show packages Ritchie's crime movie formula into a serialized television narrative with exceptional ease. His influence as an executive producer and, on the first two episodes of each season, director, is hard to miss. Season 2 continues to be a hit, with MobLand ranked as the #1 Paramount+ series worldwide at time of writing, ahead of platform heavyweights like Lioness, South Park, and Tulsa King. For a director who built his career on British gangsters decades ago, Guy Ritchie remains exceptionally good at finding an audience for them.

The Gentlemen Keeps Making One Of Guy Ritchie’s Best Stories Even Better

If MobLand represents a return to Guy Ritchie’s storytelling roots, The Gentlemen proves just how entertaining his later work is too. The Netflix series is a spin-off of Ritchie's 2019 movie, but introduces a new story centered on Theo James’s Eddie, the second-born son of the 12th Duke of Halstead. After his father dies, Eddie inherits not only his family's country estate, but also the lucrative marijuana operation beneath it. This brings him into an uneasy partnership with the enigmatic Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), who may also be key to erasing his older brother Freddy’s (Daniel Ings) massive cocaine debt with a Liverpool mafia.

Guy Ritchie created The Gentlemen TV show for Netflix with Peaky Blinders producer Matthew Read, and directed multiple episodes. While the central concept is incredibly similar to the film, an 8-episode series gives the premise significantly more room to breathe. The collision between the British aristocracy and organized crime is explored from multiple angles, and it’s incredibly satisfying seeing Eddie and Susie's complicated partnership develop. Plus, as is always welcome in a Ritchie project, The Gentlemen is dripping with eccentric criminals, elaborate schemes, bursts of violence, and knowingly excessive humor, all woven together by an impeccable soundtrack.

The success of The Gentlemen when it debuted wasn’t a flash-in-the-pan, either. The audience clearly remains invested, since The Gentlemen season 2 reached #1 on Netflix's global chart for September 7-13, a week after it arrived on the 3rd, while season 1 simultaneously returned at #3 (via Variety). Weeks later, it’s still sitting at #5. Between The Gentlemen, MobLand, and another season of Young Sherlock coming, Guy Ritchie's streaming empire is only getting larger.