"House of Guinness” first look as Netflix announces release date

Netflix has officially revealed that “House of Guinness” will premiere globally on September 25, 2025, dropping all eight episodes at once. Alongside the announcement came a stunning first-look gallery offering a vivid glimpse into the dramatic world of the Guinness dynasty. 

The big date is set: “House of Guinness” lands on September 25, 2025, exclusively on Netflix, with the entire eight-episode season available immediately upon release.

In addition, Netflix dropped breathtaking images on its Tudum site, giving viewers their first visual taste of the 19th-century world, replete with period opulence and familial tension.

"House of Guinness" storyline

Penned by "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, “House of Guinness” is an epic period drama set in 19th-century Dublin and New York. The narrative opens after the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness, whose will throws his four adult children—Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben—into the ferment of inheriting and preserving the massive Guinness brewing empire amid power struggles and personal turmoil.

Jack Gleeson in "The House of Guinness".

As Knight told Netflix it’s “the extraordinary story of a family who happens to be the inheritors of the biggest brewery in the world… The first priority is: Don’t screw it up. And the second priority is to make Guinness even bigger.”

"House of Guinness" will air as an eight-part limited series, available all at once on Netflix.  Steven Knight leads the creative team as creator and executive producer, joined by Karen Wilson, Elinor Day, Martin Haines, Tom Shankland, and Ivana Lowell.  Tom Shankland directs four episodes, while Mounia Akl directs the remaining two. 

Here’s the ensemble bringing the Guinness saga to life—and where you've likely seen them before:

- Anthony Boyle (“Masters of the Air”, “Manhunt”) as Arthur Guinness, one of the sons inheriting the brewery. 

- Louis Partridge (“Pistol”, “Enola Holmes”, “Disclaimer”) as Edward Guinness, another brother thrust into co-run the family business. 

- Emily Fairn (“The Responder”, “Black Mirror: Demon 79”) as Anne Plunket (née Guinness). 

James Norton in "The House of Guinness".

- Fionn O’Shea (“Normal People”, “Dance First”) as Benjamin (“Ben”) Guinness. 

- James Norton (“Happy Valley”, “Bob Marley: One Love”) as Sean Rafferty, an outsider whose modern ties to the family bring complexity. NetflixTown & Country

- Niamh McCormack (“Everything Now”, “The Magic Flute”) as Ellen Cochrane. 

- Seamus O’Hara (“Blue Lights”, “An Irish Goodbye”) as Patrick Cochrane. 

- Michael McElhatton (“Game of Thrones”, “The Long Shadow”) as John Potter. 

- Dervla Kirwan (“True Detective: Night Country”, “Smother”) as Aunt Agnes Guinness. 

- Michael Colgan (“Say Nothing”, “The Regime”) as Reverend Henry Gratton.

- Danielle Galligan (“Shadow and Bone”, “Obituary”) as Lady Olivia Hedges. 

- David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”, “Bodkin”) as Bonnie Champion. 

- Jessica Reynolds (“Kneecap”, “The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard”) as Lady Christine O'Madden. 

- Hilda Fay (“The Woman in the Wall”, “Spilt Milk”) as Sultan. 

- Ann Skelly (“The Nevers”, “The Sandman”) as Adelaide Guinness. 

- Elizabeth Dulau (“Andor”, “Wicked”) as Lady Henrietta St Lawrence.

- Jack Gleeson (“Game of Thrones”, “In the Land of Saints and Sinners”) as Byron Hedges.

Knight teases that Arthur and Edward form the emotional centre of the drama, bearing joint stewardship of the brewery as decreed by their father—and only time will reveal why.