Overview
- Paramount+ officially greenlit the drama Laird on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, with the streamer announcing the series in press materials reported across multiple outlets.
- Kenneth Branagh will play the Laird of Castle Drummoch and serve as an executive producer on the series.
- Joe Wright is attached to direct the pilot, and the show was created by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and Georgia Lee.
- Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios will produce, with a broad executive-producer roster listed but no production or premiere dates announced.
- The series is pitched as an epic family saga about protecting ancestral land from an American billionaire, and it arrives as Paramount+ expands its prestige drama slate while Jez Butterworth’s reported overall deal at Paramount nears its end and his planned move to Universal develops.