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    'Peaky Blinders' Confirmed to Be Turned Into Movie After Series Ends

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    The creator Steven Knight has confirmed plan to make a big screen adaptation of the hit series after the show bids farewell in the upcoming sixth and final season.

    Jan 20, 2021
    AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight insists he was always planning to end the hit TV series with a movie.
    The writer confirmed the show’s upcoming sixth season would be its last on Monday (18Jan21), but tells Deadline there will be a film to tie up loose ends.
    “I can say that my plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie,” he says. “That is what is going to happen.”
    Knight reveals he has also been approached about a spin-off ballet version of the period series about gypsy gangsters in Birmingham, England – and a West End musical.

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    Knight, who picked up a CBE medal in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s Honours list, had hoped to wrap up the show with a seventh season, but the COVID pandemic wrecked his plans.
    Production on Season 6 began on Monday.
    “Peaky Blinders” stars Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the head of the family, alongside Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Finn Cole, and Aidan Gillen. “The Irishman” star Stephen Graham was also previously revealed to be joining the cast of season six.
    Earlier seasons of the BBC show, which airs on Netflix for U.S. audiences, have featured stars like Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, and Sam Claflin.
    Details of the upcoming season are still scarce, but the creator previously teased, “After the enforced production delay due to the COVID pandemic, we find the family in extreme jeopardy and the stakes have never been higher.”

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      'Peaky Blinders' to Continue in 'Another Form' After Sixth and Final Season

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      While creator Steven Knight confirms the British series will bid farewell in the upcoming sixth season, he teases that the story will continue in ‘another form.’

      Jan 19, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Hit period crime drama “Peaky Blinders” is set to end after the upcoming season six.
      The British series, which revolves around the dealings of the powerful Shelby crime family in post-World War One Birmingham, England, recently began production on new episodes after months of delay due to the COVID-19 shutdown, and on Monday (18Jan21), creator Steven Knight announced the TV show would end after one more season.
      However, he also revealed fans could look forward to more “Peaky Blinders” antics in the future, although he stopped short of offering up any further details.
      “Peaky is back and with a bang,” Knight shared in a statement. “After the enforced production delay due to the COVID pandemic, we find the family in extreme jeopardy and the stakes have never been higher.”

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      “We believe this will be the best series of all and are sure that our amazing fans will love it. While the TV series will be coming to an end, the story will continue in another form.”
      “Peaky Blinders” stars Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the head of the family, alongside Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Finn Cole, and Aidan Gillen. “The Irishman” ‘s Stephen Graham was also previously revealed to be joining the cast of season six.
      Earlier seasons of the BBC show, which airs on Netflix for U.S. audiences, have featured stars like Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, and Sam Claflin.
      A premiere date for the sixth and final run has yet to be set.
      Season five debuted in mid-2019.

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      'Peaky Blinders' Wins Big at U.K.'s TV Choice Awards

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      The period crime drama series fronted by Cillian Murphy is named the Best Drama Series while Ricky Gervais’ ‘After Life’ is deemed the Best Comedy of the year.
      Sep 8, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” and long-running soap “Coronation Street” were the big winners at Britain’s TV Choice Awards on Monday (07Sep20).
      Cillian Murphy’s period piece picked up the Best Drama Series, while “Coronation Street” swept the board in the soap categories.
      “Killing Eve” star Jodie Comer scooped the Best Actress trophy for the second year in a row, beating out the likes of Brenda Blethyn and Daisy Edgar-Jones while “Doc Martin” star Martin Clunes picked up the Best Actor award hours after it was announced his series will end after 10 seasons in 2021.
      Accepting the award virtually, the actor said, “Thank you so, so much for this amazing award. I’m so glad that you still like this show after nine series!”
      Other big winners included “Call the Midwife” (Best Family Drama) and Ricky Gervais’ Netflix hit “After Life” (Best Comedy).
      The full list of winners is:
      Best Drama Series – “Peaky Blinders”
      Best Family Drama – “Call the Midwife”
      Best New Drama – “White House Farm”
      Best Entertainment Show – “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway”
      Best Reality Show – “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!”
      Best Comedy – “After Life”
      Best Talent Show – “The Great British Bake Off”/”The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer”/”Bake Off: The Professionals”
      Best Lifestyle Show – “The Martin Lewis Money Show”
      Best Daytime Show – “This Morning”
      Best Actor – Martin Clunes (“Doc Martin”)
      Best Actress – Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
      Best Factual Show – “Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad”
      Best Food Show – “Gordon, Gino and Fred: American Road Trip”
      Best Soap Actor – Jack P. Shepherd (“Coronation Street”)
      Best Soap Actress – Shelley King (“Coronation Street”)
      Best Soap – “Coronation Street”

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      'Peaky Blinders' Creator Recalls How Jason Statham Lost Starring Role to Cillian Murphy

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      In a new interview, Steven Knight admits that he initially set his sight on having the ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ star lead the cast as brutal Birmingham crime boss Tommy Shelby.
      Jun 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight had his sights set on Jason Statham to lead the cast of his hit series before Cillian Murphy forced him to reconsider.
      The writer and director met both actors in Los Angeles and came away from the get togethers convinced Statham was the man to play brutal Birmingham, England, crime boss Tommy Shelby.
      He tells Esquire, “One of the reasons was because physically, in the room, Jason is Jason.”
      But Murphy helped to change his mind with a text, which read simply: “Remember, I’m an actor.”
      “Cillian, when you meet him, isn’t Tommy, obviously, but I was stupid enough not to understand that,” Knight adds. “He can transform himself. If you meet him in the street he is a totally different human being.”

      Production on the sixth season of “Peaky Blinders” was set to start as the coronavirus pandemic shut down the film industry in the U.K.

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      'Peaky Blinders' Adds 'The Irishman' Star Stephen Graham

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      The former ‘Boardwalk Empire’ actor is expected to join the cast members of the British television show when it resumes filming as soon as coronavirus is over.
      Apr 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Stephen Graham is joining the cast of hit U.K. TV show “Peaky Blinders” when it resumes filming after the coronavirus.
      According to British newspaper The Sun, the star has said he was about to start filming on the show just before shooting shut down last month, March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
      “I was supposed to be starting Peaky Blinders but that has been put on hold indefinitely,” he revealed. “My agent spent a lot of time putting that together.”
      Stephen will join its star Cillian Murphy in the cast and will follow Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, and Sam Claflin as the latest big name to sign up for the hit show.
      Shooting on “Peaky Blinders” was officially halted on March 16 – four days before U.K. officials announced pubs, restaurants and bars would have to close, and Helen McCrory revealed that she, Cillian, and its producers asked the BBC to halt production.
      “Together with the producers, we approached the BBC and said we’re going to pull this now before we have to do this down the line,” she told Deadline.com.

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      Helen McCrory: Cillian Murphy and I Were Behind 'Peaky Blinders' Production Pause

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      The actress playing Polly Gray on the BBC drama series explains that she and her co-star found it ‘uncomfortable’ to continue filming while the coronavirus pandemic began to escalate.
      Apr 7, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” stars Helen McCrory and Cillian Murphy called for production on the show to be halted last month as they were “uncomfortable” filming as the coronavirus pandemic began to escalate.
      TV and film productions across the world have now gone on hiatus due to the spread of the COVID-19 disease, with many governments bringing in lockdowns that stop people leaving their homes for non-essential reasons.
      Shooting on “Peaky Blinders” was officially halted on March 16 – four days before U.K. officials announced pubs, restaurants and bars would have to close, and Helen has now revealed that she, Cillian and its producers asked the BBC to halt production before they were told to.
      McCrory says she was doing hair and make-up tests when she felt “something very big is coming” and no longer wanted to continue her work on the hit show.
      “The next morning I woke and told my producer, ‘I’m not comfortable doing this anymore.’ Cillian Murphy did the same,” she tells Deadline.com. “Together with the producers, we approached the BBC and said we’re going to pull this now before we have to do this down the line.”
      The actress, who plays “Peaky Blinders”‘ Polly Gray, the matriarch of the Shelby gangster family, led by Cillian’s character Tommy Shelby, says TV work is now “terribly unimportant.” Instead, she and her husband Damian Lewis have been fundraising to get meals delivered to health workers fighting COVID-19 in Britain.
      “We haven’t slept and we’re on the phone all the time,” she says of their project. “You’re improvising and making it up as you go along because it’s never been done before. Now we’ve got a website up, feednhs.com, and on that website, hospitals can tap on and leave details.”
      Helen and Damian have now helped raise almost $1 million (£810,000) for the cause through a Just Giving page, and fundraising efforts like comedian Matt Lucas’ charity single “Thank You Baked Potato”.

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      'Peaky Blinders' Director Left Gutted by Postponement of Season 6 Production

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      Though lamenting over the loss of months of hard work prepping the start of filming because of coronavirus, Anthony Byrne encourages others to ‘find the positive in all of this and use it’.
      Mar 19, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” director Anthony Byrne was gutted when he had to postpone filming for the sixth season of the hit show because so much work had gone into the production.
      The coronavirus pandemic forced producers to put the series on hold and Byrne admits he’s still struggling with the decision, because he was all set to start.
      Posting a photo of Cillian Murphy’s character Tommy Shelby drowning his sorrows in a pub on Instagram, the director writes, “We were so close to the start of filming Season 6. Months of hard work by our very talented, dedicated and hardworking crew. Sets were built, costumes were made. Cameras and lenses tested. Locations were booked. All the prep was done. It’s a real shame not to be able to make it for you at this time.”
      “But I personally want to thank the crew that I’ve spent months working with and I want to send my love and support to them and everyone else. We are in this together.”
      He added, “These are extraordinary times and we must be extraordinary in them. Remember who we all are as a people and look out for those around you who will find these times challenging. Dig deep. It will pass.”
      “Read that book that’s been staring at you for years. Write a poem, script, novel. Listen to music. Watch movies. Be creative. Make art. Share. Find the positive in all of this and use it. We will be better for it in the long run… Love & Respect to you all.”
      Production on “Peaky Blinders” was suspended on Monday (March 16) over coronavirus fears.
      “After much consideration, and in light of the developing situation concerning Covid-19, the start of production of ‘Peaky Blinders’ series 6 has been postponed,” a statement read. “Huge thanks to our incredible cast and crew, and to all our amazing fans for their continued support.”

      Production on most major TV dramas and comedies and movies has shut down as a result of the global pandemic.

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      'Peaky Blinders' Leads the Pack at 2020 Britain's National TV Awards

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      The BBC crime drama television series wins the best drama while the actor Cillian Murphy takes home the best drama performance at the January 28 awards show.
      Jan 29, 2020
      AceShowbiz – TV drama “Peaky Blinders” and its star Cillian Murphy were the big winners at Britain’s National Television Awards in London on Tuesday night, January 28, 2020.
      Creator Steven Knight’s series landed the Drama award at the O2 Arena ceremony, while absent Murphy scored the Drama Performance prize.
      “Chernobyl”, the mini-series documenting the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster, was named Best New Drama, while “Mrs. Brown’s Boys” triumphed in the Comedy category.
      Other notable winners included Jesy Nelson, whose documentary on social media trolls, “Odd One Out”, landed the Factual prize, and beloved TV double act Ant and Dec, who extended their record streak of victories in the TV Presenter section with a 19th win.
      Monty Python star Michael Palin was honoured with a Special Recognition award for his work as a comedian, actor, and travel documentarian. He dedicated the prize to late pal and Monty Python colleague Terry Jones, who passed away last week.
      The full list of winners is:
      New Drama: “Chernobyl”
      Comedy: “Mrs Brown’s Boys”
      Challenge Show: “The Great British Bake Off”
      TV Presenter: Ant and Dec
      Factual: “Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out”
      Drama: “Peaky Blinders”
      Drama Performance: Cillian Murphy – “Peaky Blinders”
      Newcomer: Peter Ash – “Coronation Street”
      TV Judge: David Walliams – “Britain’s Got Talent”
      Serial Drama: “Emmerdale”
      Serial Drama Performance: Katie McGlynn – “Coronation Street”
      Talent Show: “Strictly Come Dancing”
      The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award: “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!”
      Live Magazine Show: “This Morning”
      Impact Award: “Gavin & Stacey”
      Special Recognition: Michael Palin

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