{"id":177081,"date":"2025-12-05T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:39:08","slug":"netflixs-returning-gritty-crime-drama-with-stacked-british-cast-confirmed-for-special-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177081\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s returning “gritty” crime drama with stacked British cast confirmed for “special” change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gentlemen star Joely Richardson has teased a “special” change for the Netflix<\/a> show during its second season<\/a>. With the crime drama set to return to the streamer next year, what new feature could be in store?<\/p>\n

The actor, who plays Sabrina Horniman aka The Duchess of Halstead in Guy Ritchie’s action-comedy series<\/a>, sat down with Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley on This Morning<\/a> to spill the beans on the new instalment.<\/p>\n

While the star remained tight-lipped about specific plot details, she confirmed that the second season will have a bigger scope compared to its predecessor, with the characters leaving England for sunny Italy.<\/p>\n

“I can say it’s bigger. It’s better,” Richardson teased. “The characters are more extreme, if it’s possible. From Theo James, Kaia Scodelario, Vinnie Jones, obviously, who I play opposite. It’s just Guy Ritchie, he’s just gone large.”<\/p>\n

“We travel so it’s not just in England. I think I can say this. We go to Italy, which was a bit special,” added the actor, who also spoke about Hugh Bonneville’s impending introduction to the series.<\/p>\n

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“He’s such a brilliant actor that you could give him the line, ‘This is a coffee table,’ and he would make it funny,” she said of her co-star. “I was watching him yesterday because I was at work there and I just thought, ‘Oh god.’ You know, some people are just a bit too good.”<\/p>\n

The Gentlemen<\/a>, a spin-off to Ritchie’s 2019 film of the same name, follows the Duke of Halstead Eddie Horniman (James) as he’s embroiled in a criminal cannabis empire with his late father’s partner, Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone), and his daughter, Susie (Scodelario).<\/p>\n

The series, which is also produced by Ritchie, has proved to be a hit with viewers if its user rating on IMDb<\/a> is anything to go by, with the score of 8.0 out of 10 from 172,000 being mightily impressive. <\/p>\n

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“True to form, the series delivered a plethora of dynamic characters, accompanied by snappy, witty dialogue and intricately woven plot points. It epitomizes the quintessential Guy Ritchie style,” opined one viewer<\/a> as they called it “gritty”.<\/p>\n

These sentiments were echoed by another fan, who wrote<\/a>: “There’s a good balance of romantic tension between Eddie and the daughter of the gang’s boss to keep you guessing. The casting is good, production values high and storylines engaging.”<\/p>\n

The Gentlemen season 2 will be available to stream on Netflix. A release date is yet to be announced. Season 1 is streaming on Netflix now.<\/p>\n

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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gentlemen star Joely Richardson has teased a “special” change for the Netflix show during its second season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1105,96755,1107,93,61,60,1135,96754,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-177081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-762aafb1-6389-453c-8ad1-ffad382e16bd","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-locale-gb","15":"tag-shorttitle-netflixs-crime-drama-gets-special-change","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}