LOS ANGELES – Netflix has confirmed that the second season of Guy Ritchie’s crime-comedy series “The Gentlemen” will premiere globally on Sept. 3, 2026, ending a wait of more than two years since the show first became one of the platform’s most-watched English-language originals.
The streaming service released a first-look teaser alongside the announcement on Wednesday, offering a brief but charged glimpse of what comes next for Eddie Horniman, the aristocrat-turned-criminal played by Theo James. The footage trades the rain-soaked English country estates of the first season for the sun-drenched villas of Lake Maggiore, the ultra-luxury destination straddling Italy and Switzerland, where much of the new season unfolds.
All eight episodes will drop at once, matching the format of the first season.
The new season picks up roughly a year after Eddie and Susie Glass, played by Kaya Scodelario, cemented their uneasy partnership at the end of Season 1. The pair have since taken on key roles in the criminal empire of Susie’s father, Bobby Glass, played by Ray Winstone, and are now pushing the business overseas. But as they attempt to expand into Italy, Bobby’s decision-making grows increasingly erratic, forcing Eddie and Susie to decide whether to intervene or risk watching everything they have built collapse around them.
That expansion puts them directly in the orbit of Marco Moretti, an elegant but ruthless Italian crime boss played by Sergio Castellitto, and Cico Maldini, an unpredictable fixer played by Michele Morrone. Executive producer and co-writer Matthew Read told Netflix’s Tudum that the pair are “operating in Italy under the radar,” and that Cico “is not a man to be trusted.”
Read described the new season as a deeper exploration of Eddie’s growing comfort with power. “I think Eddie is extremely aspirational,” Read said. “He wants more.” The question the season poses, Read added, is whether Eddie can keep reaching for everything without losing himself in the process.
The returning cast is substantial. James, Scodelario, and Winstone are joined once again by Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito. The list of new additions is equally formidable: Hugh Bonneville, the Cannes-lauded musician and actor Benjamin Clementine, Italian actress Benedetta Porcaroli, Amra Mallassi, and Tyler Conti all join the ensemble. In a characteristically unexpected casting move from Ritchie, British professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr. and television presenter Maya Jama also appear in the new season.
Ritchie, who created the series and serves as writer, director, and executive producer, has described the second season as a deliberate expansion. He said the stakes are higher and the power dynamics “more precarious” as Eddie and Susie find themselves confronting an influx of formidable new players.
The television series is set in the world of Ritchie’s 2019 film of the same name, which starred Matthew McConaughey as an American expat running a cannabis empire in London and grossed more than $115 million at the global box office. The show reconfigured the premise around a British aristocrat who inherits a sprawling country estate only to discover it sits atop an illegal cannabis operation.
The first season, which premiered in March 2024, proved to be a runaway hit. It spent 10 weeks on Netflix’s Global Top 10 chart for English-language television, reached the Top 10 in more than 90 countries, claimed the top position in 75 of them, and generated 100 million views globally between 2024 and 2025. Netflix renewed the show for a second season in August 2024, and filming wrapped in October 2025 after extensive shoots in Italy and the United Kingdom.
The September premiere places “The Gentlemen” in an increasingly competitive fall lineup on Netflix, which has already posted strong numbers in 2026 with titles including “I Will Find You” and the second season of “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” Whether the show can replicate or exceed the viewership of its debut after a gap of more than two years remains one of the bigger questions on the streaming calendar this fall.
Matthew Read co-writes the series with Ritchie. Eran Creevy returns as a director alongside newcomer Nick Rowland. The show is executive produced by Ritchie, Will Gould, Read, Frith Tiplady, Ivan Atkinson, and Simon Crawford Collins for Moonage Pictures. It is produced by Moonage Pictures, part of ITV Studios, and Miramax Television for Netflix.
