Peaky Blinder Sequel Series Gets Two-Season Order

The Immortal Man will not be the grand finale to Peaky Blinders after all. Netflix and the BBC have jointly announced a sequel series to the fan-favorite drama, which has been rumored to be in the works since April.

Per Deadline, the Peaky Blinders sequel series has received a two-season order, with each season consisting of six hourlong episodes. Original series creator Steven Knight and franchise lead Cillian Murphy will both executive produce the follow-up, which will be set more than a decade after the events of the forthcoming feature-length continuation The Immortal Man, which is currently in post-production and is expected to be released next year. “I’m thrilled to be announcing this new chapter in the Peaky Blinders story,” said Knight in a statement. “Once again it will be rooted in Birmingham and will tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel and it will be a hell of a ride.”

The original Peaky Blinders series ran for six seasons and 36 episodes on BBC Two/BBC One (and Netflix outside the UK) from 2013 to 2022. Set in Birmingham, the British period crime drama television series follows the exploits of the Peaky Blinders crime gang, led by Murphy’s Thomas “Tommy” Shelby, from 1919 to 1934. Knight has already revealed that The Immortal Man will move the timeline up to 1940, “when Birmingham was being carpet-bombed every night by the German Air Force. […] People don’t know if they’re going to live until tomorrow morning. There’s a lot of hedonism, there’s a lot of fatalism, and you’re throwing into that Tommy Shelby who was having his own existential crisis. The stakes are all much higher.”

Peaky Blinders Sequel Series Will Jump Forward Another Decade

Tommy Shelby goes to war with Mosely in Peaky Blinders.Image via BBC

A six-year gap between Peaky Blinders Season 6 and The Immortal Man isn’t entirely out of place, considering that when the movie premieres on Netflix next year it will have been four years since the period drama concluded. However, the sequel series will push the Peaky Blinders timeline even further into the future, to 1953 to be exact, in what will mark the biggest time jump yet for the franchise.

The massive time jump was revealed in the upcoming series’ official logline, which reads as follows: “Britain, 1953. After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel. In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and danger: with the Shelby family right at its blood-soaked heart.”

No further details have been shared at this time, including who might be cast as the new generation of the beloved Birmingham clan. A production window also remains under wraps. However, BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has promised that the new show will feature “plenty of drama for Peaky fans to look forward to!”

The original Peaky Blinders is available to stream on Netflix, with The Immortal Man set to arrive on the platform in 2026. As for the sequel series, it will air on the BBC in the UK and on Netflix globally.

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