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If you’ve been wondering what could possibly fill the gap left by MobLand, the answer has come in loud, gritty, and laced with Scouse accents. This City Is Ours, a sprawling Liverpool-based gangland epic created by The Good Mothers scribe Stephen Butchard, is officially the streamer’s #7 most-watched show worldwide as of this week — and that’s without a U.S. release date. The series launched earlier this year on BBC One and was immediately hailed as a spiritual successor to shows like Gangs of London and Peaky Blinders. Now streaming internationally on HBO Max (though notably not yet in the States), This City Is Ours has exploded in popularity across Europe, Australia, and South America, where it’s being praised for its dark themes, quick-witted writing, and Shakespearean betrayals.

Starring Sean Bean as ageing crime boss Ronnie Phelan, the show centers on a fractured gang fighting to stay...

Sean Bean is among the ensemble for epic new BBC crime drama This City Is Ours. Here are the details.

Stephen Butchard has been a consistent presence on British TV screens since the early 2000s, creating the underrated Ray Winstone crime thriller Vincent and Warren Brown police drama Good Cop.

His latest series is the epic crime drama This City Is Ours, which is currently filming in Liverpool and Spain.

The synopsis reads as follows:

Set and filmed in Liverpool, This City is Ours is the story of Michael, a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie. When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day,...

Sean Bean is to star as a gang leader in Stephen Butchard’s epic Liverpool-set crime series This City is Ours [working title] from The Crown producer Left Bank.

The two-time BAFTA winning Game of Thrones alum will play Ronnie Phelan in the series, which will also feature James Nelson-Joyce as Ronnie’s friend, Michael Kavanagh, Hannah Onslow as Diana Williams, Michael’s partner, and Jack McMullen as Ronnie’s son, Jamie Phelan. Also joining the cast are Laura Aikman as Rachel Duffy, Kevin Harvey as Bobby Duffy, Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Cheryl Crawford, Mike Noble as Banksey, Bobby Schofield as Bonehead, Darci Shaw (Judy, A Thousand Blows) as Melissa Phelan, and Stephen Walters as Davy Crawford.