Netflix Rescues Showtime's 'Entitled' From Paramount-Induced Limbo

It was over three years ago, in June 2022, that Showtime and Channel 4 announced they would collaborate on a new co-production series called Entitled. The series would star American actor and Stranger Things breakout star Brett Gelman, who was also still riding high on his turn in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, as Gabe, the grieving husband of a long-lost relative of the British aristocracy. Though the series begins in the U.S. and stars an American, it was a very promising-sounding series for Anglophiles, which is why its emergence from streaming limbo to premiere on Netflix in July 2025 is welcome news.

Upon learning his wife's passing leaves him a giant fortune and a crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside, Gabe decides to try to become an English Country Gentleman, only to be confronted with his wife's eccentric family and quickly realizes why she fled to the U.S. These estranged relatives have been living the genteel poverty life in her mansion, and expect their new patriarch to allow them to continue living there in the manner to which they are accustomed.

Showtime was still a standalone network in 2022, making its own deals, and its co-production with Channel 4 was merely the next in a long line of US-UK series, along with shows like The Woman in the Wall. However, it wasn't long before Showtime was merged under the Paramount+ umbrella, becoming "Paramount+ with Showtime," and Entitled became part of a slew of U.K. shows greenlit by the streaming service... which were then mass canceled in 2024. Despite being completed, Entitled was one of those shelved, even though Paramount+ hadn't even been the ones to greenlight it in the first place.