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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the final season of Peaky Blinders. EXCLUSIVE: The sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders hits Netflix on Friday, after having aired to record ratings on BBC One in the UK earlier this year. Star Cillian Murphy, who plays Tommy Shelby, the head of the epic saga's titular…

BBC One has set the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders with the award-winning period gangster saga set to return on February 27 at 9pm in the UK. The date was made official this morning in Birmingham, home to the fictional Shelby clan, via a 42-foot high mural looming over Digbeth's Old…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off of its highest-rated run so far, the Steven Knight-created period gangster saga Peaky Blinders will begin shooting its 6th season in March. That’s after a move to BBC One last year and a first BAFTA for Outstanding Drama in 2018. Executive Producer Caryn Mandabach is the proud owner of the series…

Sharon Horgan is teaming with Peaky Blinders producer Caryn Mandabach Productions on a morally complex drama for Amazon. Horgan's Merman, Mandabach's indie and Kapital Entertainment are developing Dirty, written by Danny Brocklehurst, creator of Netflix's Safe. The drama is a brutally honest look at modern lives; the…

EXCLUSIVE: Caryn Mandabach Productions, producer/owner of hit BBC and Netflix gangster epic Peaky Blinders, has secured TV rights to prize-winning author Jonathan Lee's international bestseller High Dive. The book is a re-imagining of the 1980s IRA bombing attack on Brighton’s Grand Hotel, an attempt to assassinate…

EXCLUSIVE: The Shelby crime family is getting back together — amid the 1929 financial crisis and as Tommy Shelby faces his darkest force yet. Filming has begun on Season 5 of Peaky Blinders, the period saga created by Steven Knight and starring Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson — and we’ve got the…

Peaky Blinders is set to get even bigger after the BBC moved the period gangster thriller from BBC Two to BBC One. The scheduling move will likely mean that Steven Knight's drama, centered around the Shelby crime family, will add to the 3.6M audience that tuned in for the finale of season four. That season was the…

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has said that next year’s Season 5 is not the last we'll see of the Shelby crime family on the small screen — and, he’s been approached about a spinoff ballet version of the epic gangster series. Knight was speaking during an event at the Birmingham Press Club on Friday when he…

EXCLUSIVE: Season 4 of Peaky Blinders was the period gangster epic’s highest-rated ever and BBC Two’s most-watched drama of 2017. Today, the saga of the Shelby clan scored five nominations from the BAFTA TV Craft Awards, including a first-ever nod for creator/writer Steven Knight in the Drama Writing category. When I…

Caryn Mandabach Productions has optioned the TV rights to Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's psychological mystery novel, When We Were Orphans. The Peaky Blinders producer will develop the book, which was first published by Faber & Faber in 2000 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as a limited…

EXCLUSIVE: Season 4 of Peaky Blinders got up and running in the UK last week, and now has a U.S. airdate. Netflix will make all episodes of the return of the epic period gangster series available in the States on December 21, I’ve learned. When it began airing on BBC Two last week, Season 4 of the Steven…

Singing and dancing Tommy Shelbys? It could happen. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is mulling an extension of the BBC Two/Netflix drama as a West End musical. While it’s early days, Knight tells me he has been approached by more than one “very, very respectable” party interested in helping bring the story of the…