Little Schmidt Productions Archive
MobLand
Television Series
Power is inherited. Loyalty is earned.
The Production
Overview
The Story
MobLand is a British crime drama built around two powerful London criminal dynasties whose struggle for control threatens not only their organisations, but the families at the centre of them.
At the heart of the series is Harry Da Souza, the Harrigan family's trusted fixer. Harry is the person called when negotiation has failed, when violence threatens to escalate or when the consequences of someone else's decisions have to be contained. His position gives him unusual access to every level of the Harrigan organisation while also placing him permanently between loyalty, survival and the demands of his own family.
The Harrigans are led by Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, a formidable partnership whose marriage, family relationships and criminal interests are inseparable. Their organisation has been built through influence, intimidation and inherited loyalty, yet its apparent strength hides divisions within the family itself. Conrad's authority, Maeve's strategic influence and the ambitions of the next generation create tensions long before the rivalry with the Stevensons reaches breaking point.
Kevin Harrigan, Conrad and Maeve's younger son, occupies an important position within that unstable hierarchy. His friendship with Harry creates a direct link between the family's internal relationships and the practical realities of running the organisation. Kevin's marriage to Bella and the pressures around their son Eddie add another layer of instability as domestic frustrations begin to collide with criminal expectations.
The Stevenson family represents a rival criminal power with its own history, ambitions and grievances. What begins as longstanding hostility develops into a conflict in which individual actions can create consequences for entire families. Harry is repeatedly required to move between competing interests, trying to contain situations that become more dangerous each time retaliation takes priority over restraint.
That structure allows MobLand to operate as more than a conventional organised-crime thriller. The series is equally concerned with inheritance, marriage, parenthood, friendship and what loyalty means when family and business have become impossible to separate.
Harry's life outside the Harrigans is central to that tension. His wife Jan and their family experience the personal cost of a profession built around other people's emergencies. The closer Harry moves toward solving the Harrigans' problems, the harder it becomes to prevent their world from entering his own.
As the conflict develops, power shifts through conversations as often as it does through violence. Alliances change, secrets become leverage and apparently private family disagreements acquire consequences far beyond the room in which they began. The result is a crime drama in which the greatest threat to an empire may come not only from the family waiting outside its gates, but from the relationships holding it together.
The Series
Family. Power. Consequence.
The ten-episode first season uses the structure of a crime family drama to examine how power moves through generations, marriages, friendships and business relationships.
The Fixer at the Centre
Harry's position gives the story a distinctive point of view. He is neither the head of the empire nor an outsider looking in. He operates at the point where decisions become consequences — negotiating problems, containing violence and restoring order after someone else has destroyed it.
A Family That Functions Like a Hierarchy
Conrad may be the public patriarch, but Maeve, Kevin, Bella, Eddie, Seraphina and the wider Harrigan family each exert influence in different ways. Domestic tensions become operational risks because the family and the organisation are effectively the same structure.
An Expanding Story
Season 1 established the Harrigan–Stevenson conflict across ten episodes. A second ten-episode season is scheduled to premiere on 18 September 2026, carrying the consequences of that first conflict into a new phase of the family's struggle for control. Paramount+ confirms the date and episode count.
The Ensemble
Main Cast
MobLand is built around characters whose family relationships, loyalties and ambitions are inseparable from the criminal organisation surrounding them.
Tom Hardy
Harry Da Souza
Harry is the Harrigan family's trusted fixer — a strategist, negotiator and problem-solver whose job begins where ordinary solutions end. His longtime friendship with Kevin Harrigan keeps him close to the family while his wife Jan and daughter Gina give him something outside the organisation he cannot afford to lose.
Pierce Brosnan
Conrad Harrigan
Conrad is the patriarch and public face of the Harrigan crime family. Charismatic, ruthless and accustomed to command, he has built an organisation whose influence extends through London, while age and increasingly chaotic decisions place pressure on both his business and his family.
Helen Mirren
Maeve Harrigan
Maeve is the Harrigan matriarch and one of the most influential forces inside the family. Her authority often operates behind the public face of the organisation, where strategy, loyalty and manipulation give her substantial power over the people around her.
Paddy Considine
Kevin Harrigan
Kevin is Conrad and Maeve's younger son and Harry Da Souza's longtime friend. He is treated as his father's heir apparent, but the expectations of the criminal enterprise continually conflict with his attempts to hold together his relationships with Bella and the wider family.
Joanne Froggatt
Jan Da Souza
Jan is Harry's wife and emotional counterweight to his work for the Harrigans. Her position gives the series a perspective outside the crime family itself, showing what a life built around permanent risk does to the people waiting at home.
Lara Pulver
Isabella “Bella” Harrigan
Bella is Kevin Harrigan's wife. Her frustration with Kevin's absences and the culture surrounding the Harrigan family gives her a complicated position inside the organisation, while her own choices increasingly affect the family's internal politics.
Behind the Production
Building a modern
crime dynasty.
MobLand places contemporary London crime against environments that move between private wealth, urban pressure, industrial spaces and the quieter landscapes surrounding the city.
Story Structure
A Crime Story Built Around Family
The series uses organised crime as both a business structure and a family structure. Meetings about territory, money and retaliation can become arguments between parents, children, spouses and old friends, allowing personal and operational stakes to occupy the same scene.
That structure gives the production room for intimate dialogue and character tension alongside violence and large-scale criminal conflict.
Urban Identity
London Without a Single Identity
MobLand's London is not presented through one repeated visual language. Prestigious interiors, working streets, industrial environments and family homes allow very different sides of the criminal world to exist within the same city.
That contrast matters because Harry moves constantly between negotiation, violence and domestic life, and the spaces around him help signal those shifts before dialogue has to explain them.
Country Environments
The Estate as an Expression of Power
The Harrigans' world extends beyond metropolitan London. Country environments and the Cotswolds create a different expression of power: distance, privacy, land and inherited status rather than the visible pressure of the city.
Moving between those settings allows the series to contrast the appearance of established wealth with the instability and violence sustaining the family beneath it.
Little Schmidt Productions
Production
Contribution.
Large-scale location production depends on environments that work creatively and practically. A visually convincing place still has to support access, crew movement, technical requirements, equipment, scheduling and the changing needs of the production day.
Location Support
Matching the Screen World to Real Places
MobLand required environments capable of representing very different layers of its criminal world: prestige, privacy, working London, transport infrastructure and industrial scale. The Little Schmidt Productions archive records its location and production-support involvement with the series; the precise locations and individual tasks are not specified here.
Practical Production
What Has to Work Beyond the Frame
Location work is not only about appearance. Access routes, equipment, parking, holding areas, crew movement, timing, technical requirements and neighbouring activity all determine whether a location can operate successfully during filming.
Production Coordination
Supporting a Moving Production
A location-led television series rarely stays still. Different environments bring different constraints, and production support has to adapt around the needs of the scene, the unit and the wider schedule rather than forcing every location into the same operational model.
Working Environments
From London to Hampshire
London, Hampshire and the Cotswolds each present a different production environment. Moving between them requires practical planning that allows the production to preserve creative continuity while the physical requirements around the camera change from location to location.
Inside the Production
A crime empire built
across real places.
The geography of MobLand is part of its storytelling. London, the Cotswolds and production locations across Hampshire allow wealth, danger, privacy and industrial scale to exist within one connected screen world.
Location is never just background. It tells the audience who holds power before anyone says a word.
London & Cotswolds
Two Sides of the Same Empire
The series moves between metropolitan London and the Cotswolds, using that geographical contrast to separate different expressions of Harrigan power. The city creates proximity, pressure and movement; the countryside creates privacy, distance and the appearance of permanence.
Seen together, the locations help make the Harrigan organisation feel larger than a collection of rooms or criminal meetings. It appears to occupy a social and physical territory.
Farnborough
A Production Base with Locations Built In
Farnborough International Studios served as an important operational base for the production. Its usefulness extended beyond unit facilities: nearby locations could also become part of the series itself.
The regional production base offered access to studio facilities and a range of practical environments. Specific location credits should be checked against production records.
Location Character
Prestige Above. Danger Below.
One of the series' recurring visual ideas is that luxury and violence can exist almost on top of one another. Elegant homes, private rooms and established wealth sit beside the operational consequences of the family business.
The contrast reflects the show's wider logic: the people who appear most removed from violence are often the people whose decisions create it.
Practical Production
Moving the Unit, Not Just the Camera
A location-led series requires far more than finding a visually convincing building. Access, vehicles, crew movement, technical equipment, holding areas, timing and neighbouring activity all have to work around the demands of the scene.
The environment must feel natural on screen even though a large temporary production infrastructure may be operating just outside the frame.
Production Infrastructure
The Unit Base Behind the Screen World
Farnborough's role also reveals something audiences rarely see. The production based significant unit operations there, keeping crews and resources connected while filming across multiple nearby environments.
Studio facilities, power, transport and crew logistics illustrate how much infrastructure sits behind a large television production.
Reception & Continuing Story
An empire still
in motion.
What began as a ten-episode family crime drama developed into an ongoing Paramount+ series, carrying the Harrigan conflict beyond its first season.
MobLand's strongest tension comes from treating the family and the organisation as the same unstable machine.
Launch
A Major Paramount+ Debut
The series premiered on 30 March 2025. Paramount+ renewed the series for a second season following its first-season launch.
Character Engine
The Fixer at the Centre
Harry Da Souza can move through every layer of the story. He can negotiate with crime bosses, protect the family, manage operational problems and then return home to face the cost of those decisions. That position allows the series to move naturally between crime thriller, family drama and character study.
Season Two
The Story Continues
Season 2 is scheduled to premiere on 18 September 2026 with ten episodes. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine and other principal cast members return as the Harrigans attempt to present a unified front while new threats place their fractured empire under pressure.
From the Editorial
The Harrigans’ next chapter.
With the second season approaching, our editorial examines the Harrigan family's fractured power structure, Harry Da Souza's increasingly difficult position and the questions the new season must confront.
Read the Season 2 editorial