Can’t get enough of Peaky Blinders? Join the club. The Cillian Murphy-led masterpiece grew from being a BBC series to a worldwide phenomenon on Neflix, spawning a total of six seasons, several television awards and, in 2025, the premiere of a full-length film, namely, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
The latter dominated Netflix streaming after earning a Certified Fresh rating of 90 percent from critics and fans alike on Rotten Tomatoes, leaving many hoping it wouldn’t be the end of the road for the Shelby family. The good news is Netflix gave the green light for a Peaky Blinders sequel series, and the even better news is what the show’s screenwriter and director, Steven Knight, just delivered.
As the cast continues to grieve the loss of Sam Neill, they hope to honor him with more classic storytelling from a series he contributed in a major way to.
Peaky Blinders Sequel Series Takes Huge Step Forward
Knight, speaking on the Zoe Ball in the Afternoon podcast, says the hay is officially in the barn with Peaky’s script — having already been notified that Netflix has preordered Season 2.
“Peaky [Blinders]: The New Generation, I guess you can call it, is already in the can,” he said. “It is so good. I mean, I would say that, wouldn’t I? But it is really, really good.”
It’s been 13 years since the original Peaky Blinders made its premiere on BBC Two, and Knight still has trouble processing exactly how meaningful the franchise has become to the masses, and with the fact it is now becoming its own universe that could grow over time, possibly even beyond the initial sequel series. One situation in particular comes to mind when trying to explain the moment it really settled in for him, and it wasn’t anything he could’ve ever fathomed happening.
Peaky Blinders and … Snoop Dogg? Never Say Never
“When [Peaky Blinders] was first a BBC Two drama and people would go, ‘1920s Birmingham, with Birmingham accents and gangsters?’ said Knight. “Cillian [Murphy] was saying that he and Benjamin [Zephaniah] were shooting the first two or three days, and they got together and said, ‘What do you think? Is this gonna work?’ And they were like, ‘Nah, I don’t think so.’
He continued: “But then, it just went bonkers. I really realized something was happening when Snoop Dogg’s agent was in touch, and said [Snoop] wants to meet you. We spent three hours in a hotel room talking about how Peaky reminded him of how he got involved in gang culture. And I just thought, ‘This is madness.'”
That story does make you wonder if Knight could ever find a role for Snoop Dogg, an experienced actor and rabid Peaky Blinders fan, in the upcoming sequel series or a separate spinoff. It’s not likely but, hey, it’s also not impossible.
- Release Date
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2013 – 2022-00-00
- Network
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BBC One, BBC Two
- Showrunner
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Steven Knight
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Cillian Murphy
Thomas Shelby
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Paul Anderson
Arthur Shelby
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