Running London

A gangster show for the Uber era. Running London is a crime drama, in which a tech-savvy kid from a small-time London gang takes on a powerful old school drugs boss, in a bid to run the city’s drugs business. Think of how Uber is disrupting the livelihood of the traditional taxi driver – this is the same kind of story, but set in the violent world of London drug-dealing. It’s a clash of generations. On one side, 16 year-old Kieran Sharp, who’s grown up in a scrappy East London gang – but he’s different, an outsider, his heroes are Zuckerberg and Jobs. He’s interested in how you can disrupt the status quo. On the other side, an ageing old school gangster, Stan Garrett, powerful but complacent, with a wife and kids to look after, running things the same way it’s been done for decades. Kieran’s Uber, and Stan’s the black cab business, and they’re both going to fight to the death to survive. Running London is a series, like The Sopranos and Gomorrah, that examines how a criminal business deals with the rise of a new generation of young gangsters, who don’t follow the old rules.