Peaky Blinders to Return with Two-Season Sequel Set in 1953

Peaky Blinders will return to television in a new, two-season sequel from creator Steven Knight, the BBC and Netflix announced on Thursday, with production set in Birmingham and a narrative jump to 1953 that follows an upcoming feature film continuation. Each season will comprise six hourlong episodes and will be filmed at Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham.

The sequel is described as centring on a new generation of the Shelby family as postwar Birmingham rebuilds from wartime bombing. An official synopsis says the series is set in 1953, when the city is "building a better future out of concrete and steel" and the race to control its reconstruction becomes a brutal contest, with the Shelby family remaining at its heart. Knight, who will return as writer and executive producer, said he was "thrilled to be announcing this new chapter in the Peaky Blinders story" and added, "The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel and it will be a hell of a ride."

The television continuation will follow The Immortal Man, a feature film also written by Knight and now in postproduction, which brings Cillian Murphy back as Tommy Shelby. Murphy is an executive producer on the sequel series,...