So, Peaky Blinders is doing that thing where the 'ending' is really just the start of more Peaky. The original run wrapped in 2022 after six seasons, there is a Netflix Original movie on the way, and now Netflix and the BBC have teed up not one but two sequel shows. The Shelbys don’t retire; they expand.
Where the movie stands
The film brings Cillian Murphy back as Thomas Shelby and is set during World War II. Creator Steven Knight has been framing it as the capstone to the first era, calling it a 'very fitting way to end this part of the Peaky story.' The plot is locked down tight, but the tone is not exactly subtle.
'No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.'
For what it’s worth, the movie is already in post-production.
What Netflix and the BBC just announced
Knight’s choice of words — 'this part' — was doing some heavy lifting. Because after the film, two new Peaky series are coming, centered on a new generation of Shelbys and set in the aftermath.
- There are two separate sequel shows, each made up of six 60-minute episodes.
- Both will shoot at Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham.
- Producers: Kudos (SAS Rogue Heroes, House of Guinness, Grantchester) and Garrison Drama (Peaky Blinders Series 1-6, The Peaky Blinders Film).
- The timeline picks up after the feature film.
- Setting and vibe: Britain, 1953 — Birmingham is rebuilding in concrete and steel after the blitz, and the scramble to control the city’s huge reconstruction becomes a brutal, almost mythic power struggle. Opportunity is everywhere, danger is baked in, and the Shelby clan sits right in the middle of it.
The pitch, translated
If the logline sounds grand, that’s because it is: think postwar urban gold rush, Peaky-style. Knight says the story stays rooted in Birmingham, tracking a city 'rising from the ashes' and passing the wheel to the next wave of Shelbys — his words suggest it’s going to be a wild ride. Netflix, for its part, is hyped about reuniting with the BBC and both production companies, and they are very much selling this as Steven Knight returning to the streets of Birmingham with the next-gen family drama designed to hook a global audience all over again.
The short version
Peaky Blinders is closing out the original arc with six seasons and a movie, then immediately rebooting itself with two follow-up series set in 1953. Same city, new Shelbys, fresh land grab. Sounds like the razor caps aren’t going back in the drawer anytime soon.