Overview
Gangs of London is a British television series created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery. Based on the 2006 video game of the same name, serving as the fourth installment in The Getaway franchise created by Brendan McNamara and Katie Ellwood, Gangs of London follows the struggles between rival gangs and other criminal organisations in present-day London. The first series premiered on 23 April 2020 on Sky Atlantic. In June 2020, a second series was announced, with AMC to take over US broadcast rights and co-produce, and Corin Hardy to take over as showrunner. The second series premiered on 20 October 2022 in the UK and Germany and premiered on 17 November 2022 in the US. In November 2022, the series was renewed for a third season. In December 2022, a graphic novel titled A Gangs of London Story: Ghosts, set inbetween the first and second series, was released.
Premise
London, one of the world's most dynamic and multicultural cities, is being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of the international gangs that control it and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.
For 20 years, Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) was the most powerful criminal in London. Billions of pounds flowed through his organisation each year. But now he's dead, and nobody knows who ordered him killed. With rivals everywhere, it's up to the impulsive Sean Wallace (Joe Cole), with the help of the Dumani family headed by Ed Dumani (Lucian Msamati), to take his father's place. If the situation wasn't already dangerous enough, Sean's assumption of power causes ripples in the world of international crime within the streets of London, which consists of the Albanian Mafia, Kurdish PKK freedom fighters, the Pakistani Drug Cartel, Welsh travellers and various other criminal elements.
In the middle of this is newcomer Elliot Carter / Finch (Sope Dirisu), an undercover policeman who has infiltrated the Wallace Organisation.
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