Robin Hood Season 1: Release Date, Cast, Plot — Everything You Need to Know Now
Forget the bedtime fable—MGM+ and Lionsgate Television’s Robin Hood tears the legend down to raw survival, freedom, and love in a brutal medieval world. Here’s when this outlaw returns and why it won’t look like any Robin Hood you remember.
Here we go again with Robin Hood — but not the green-tights bedtime version. MGM+ and Lionsgate Television are rolling out a grittier take that leans into mud, steel, and ugly power plays. It looks big, feels grounded, and, based on the trailer, is more about surviving a broken system than swashbuckling for fun.
Release plan: when and where to watch
The show debuts Sunday, November 2, 2025, and goes live at 9:00 PM ET in the U.S. Two episodes hit on day one, then it settles into a weekly drop through the season finale on Sunday, December 28, 2025. There are 10 episodes total.
It is an MGM+ series. In the U.S., you can watch with an MGM+ subscription (also available as a Prime Video Channel). Outside the U.S., it streams via Prime Video with the MGM+ add-on in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Latin America. Pricing for MGM+ is $6.99/month in the U.S. and £5.99/month in the UK.
The vibe (and the line that sets the tone)
The trailer is all misty forests, clashing swords, and that simmering feeling like a revolt is about to kick off. Then Jack Patten drops the line that basically stamps the show’s mission statement right across the screen:
"They rob us of our coin and call it the law. They kill our people and call it justice. And yet, they call us thieves. Then let us be thieves with a purpose."
If you were wondering whether this version plans to sand off the edges, there’s your answer.
What this Robin Hood is actually about
We’re in twelfth-century England, after the Norman conquest, when Saxons are living under foreign rule and survival regularly means swallowing your pride. Rob, the son of a Saxon forester, loses everything and gets pushed past grief into action — the kind that pulls other desperate people into the woods with him.
Marian is the curveball: a Norman lord’s daughter trying to do the right thing from inside the halls of power. She maneuvers through courts and courtiers, risking her place to cut at corruption from the inside. It’s not the damsel setup. She’s a strategist, a spy, and the one with the most to lose.
Together, Rob and Marian aren’t just a romance; they’re a quiet, dangerous rebellion built out of anger and necessity.
Who made it and where they shot
This comes from Lionsgate Television with Balkanic Media, Hidden Pictures, and PFI Studios in the mix. John Glenn and Jonathan English co-wrote and produce the series; English directs five of the 10 episodes, including the pilot. Todd Lieberman executive produces for Hidden Pictures.
They filmed in Serbia, which gives the show real texture — damp forests, stone walls, moorland, fog — so it never tips into glossy cosplay. The creative goal here is less nostalgia and more psychological realism, with an eye on the politics and pressure of the era.
Cast
- Jack Patten as Robin Hood
- Lauren McQueen as Marian
- Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham
- Lydia Peckham as Priscilla of Nottingham
- Steven Waddington as the Earl of Huntingdon
- Marcus Fraser as Little John
- Angus Castle-Doughty as Friar Tuck
- Henry Rowley as Will
- Connie Nielsen as Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Richard Lintern, Ryan Gage, Oscar Salem, Tom Mison, and Miloš Timotijević in key supporting roles
Early read on the performances
Sean Bean’s Sheriff is being talked up as properly chilling — not cartoon-evil, but cold, calculating, and believable. Jack Patten is making his TV debut and, judging from the trailer and how the show frames him, he’s playing Rob as a guy who bleeds, breaks, and still steps forward. It works.
How this take stands apart
You’ve seen lighter, quippier Robins. This isn’t that. Think closer to The Last Kingdom or Gladiator than any jaunty forest romp. The show pokes at the myth instead of polishing it: if the system is rigged, who gets to define justice? And what if your so-called hero is exhausted, angry, and improvising?
Marian flips the old trope — she’s not waiting in a tower; she’s playing the long game behind enemy lines. Rob isn’t noble-by-destiny; he’s pushed into it, a step at a time, because nobody else will.
Bottom line
Robin Hood looks like MGM+ swinging for a grounded, cinematic epic: history with dirt under the fingernails, big set pieces, and a love story threaded through a revolt. If it sticks the landing, this could be the version people point to when they say the legend finally felt real.