Peaky Blinders (TV series)

Peaky Blinders
Genre	Historical fiction
Created by	Steven Knight
Written by	Steven Knight
Directed by	Otto Bathurst (series 1) Tom Harper (series 1) Colm McCarthy (series 2) Tim Mielants (series 3)
Starring	Cillian Murphy Sam Neill Helen McCrory Paul Anderson Annabelle Wallis Iddo Goldberg Sophie Rundle Joe Cole Ned Dennehy Benjamin Zephaniah David Dawson Andy Nyman Charlie Creed-Miles Tommy Flanagan Charlotte Riley Finn Cole Natasha O'Keeffe Aimee-Ffion Edwards Noah Taylor Tom Hardy Gaite Jansen Alexander Siddig Packy Lee Jan Bijvoet Dina Korzun Paddy Considine
Opening theme	"Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Composer(s)	Mearl
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	18
Production
Executive producer(s)	Caryn Mandabach Greg Brenman Steven Knight Jamie Glazebrook Frith Tiplady
Producer(s)	Katie Swinden
Location(s)	Birmingham, England
Cinematography	George Steel
Running time	55–59 minutes
Production company(s)	Caryn Mandabach Productions Tiger Aspect Productions
Distributor	Endemol UK (UK) The Weinstein Company (US)
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Picture format	16:9 1080i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	12 September 2013 (2013-09-12) – present
External links
Peaky Blinders at BBC Programmes

Endemol UK (UK)

Peaky Blinders is a British television crime drama based upon the exploits of the Peaky Blinders gang, operating in Birmingham, England, during the aftermath of the First World War. The series was created by Steven Knight and produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions. The series centres around and stars Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the gang's leader, and Sam Neill as a commissioned detective tasked with the suppression of the gang.

The first series aired on BBC Two on 13 September 2013 and ran for six episodes. The second series premiered on 2 October 2014. The third series premiered on 5 May 2016.

On 26 May 2016, the BBC announced that they had ordered a fourth and fifth series of the show. Series 4 will probably be released late 2017.

Peaky Blinders is a gangster family epic set in Birmingham, England in 1919, just after the First World War. The story centres on the Romani/Irish Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly cunning boss Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy). The gang comes to the attention of Chief Inspector Major Chester Campbell (played by Sam Neill), a detective in the Royal Irish Constabulary 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.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.

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