MobLand features a who’s who of heavy hitters from the big and small screen. Tom Hardy plays criminal “fixer” Harry Da Souza, Pierce Brosnan is his boss, powerful crime lord Conrad Harrigan, and none other than Dame Helen Mirren stars as terrifying matriarch Maeve Harrigan.

Guy Ritchie and the creator of 'The Day of the Jackal' turn their lens on a London crime family in "MobLand" starring Helen Mirren and Pierxe Brosnan.

A new London-set crime show from Guy Ritchie and Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett sounds like a match made in gangland TV heaven – the gun-toting, geezer-iffic equivalent of Marvel’s The Avengers, with a lot less spandex and a great many more c-words flying about.