It was later confirmed that David Bowies music would be featured, and Leonard Cohen had also written a new song for series 3. On 2 March 2016, Knight told the Crime Scene Quarterly Ive had unsolicited communication from Michael Mann, the film director, from Dennis Lehane, Snoop Dogg hes such a fan.Īnd the late David Bowie was a huge fan more of that to come (strongly hinting Bowies involvement on series 3). When asked if he deliberately avoided watching these dramas, he responded: Its sort of deliberate in that I dont really want to be looking at other peoples work because it does affect what you do inevitably. Ive never seen The Wire, Ive never seen Boardwalk Empire, Ive never seen any of them. Show writer Steven Knight stated in an early interview: Do you know and Im not just saying this but Ive never watched them. Having already premiered to a select audience at Birmingham Town Hall on 18 July 2019, the series began airing on BBC One on 25 August 2019. On 22 August 2018, it was confirmed that series 5 would be broadcast on BBC One. The writers are listed as Steven Knight, Stephen Russell and Toby Finlay. He is also investigating socialist and fascist political activities. The third series also features Father John Hughes ( Paddy Considine ), who is involved in an anti-communist organisation Ruben Oliver ( Alexander Siddig ), a painter whom Polly enlists to paint her portrait Russian Duchess Tatiana Petrovna ( Gaite Jansen ) and Linda Shelby ( Kate Phillips ), new wife of Arthur. The first series concludes on 3 December 1919 Black Star Day, the event where the Peaky Blinders plan to take over Billy Kimbers betting pitches at the Worcester Races. Winston Churchill (played by Andy Nyman in series 1 and Richard McCabe in series 2) charged him with suppressing disorder and uprising in Birmingham and recovering a stolen cache of arms meant to be shipped to Libya.
The gang comes to the attention of Major Chester Campbell ( Sam Neill ), a Detective Chief Inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) sent over by Winston Churchill from Belfast, where he had been sent to clean up the city of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Communists, gangs and common criminals. The story centres on the Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly cunning boss Tommy Shelby ( Cillian Murphy ). In January 2021, it was announced that the sixth series would be the final television series of Peaky Blinders.
Netflix, under the deal with Weinstein Company and Endemol, had acquired the rights to release Peaky Blinders in the United States and around the world. The show premiered on 12 September 2013, telecast on BBC Two until the fourth series, and then shifted to BBC One for the fifth series.