Peaky Blinders (TV series)

Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. It is about the Peaky Blinders crime gang in Birmingham after World War I.

Peaky Blinders
Genre
  • Historical fiction
  • Crime drama
Created bySteven Knight
Written by
  • Steven Knight
  • Toby Finlay
  • Stephen Russell
Directed by
  • Otto Bathurst (series 1)
  • Tom Harper (series 1)
  • Colm McCarthy (series 2)
  • Tim Mielants (series 3)
  • David Caffrey (series 4)
  • Anthony Byrne (series 5 and 6)
Starring
Opening theme"Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Composer(s)
  • Martin Phipps
  • Paul Hartnoll
  • Dickon Hinchliffe
  • Antony Genn
  • Martin Slattery
  • Anna Calvi
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series6
No. of episodes36 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Caryn Mandabach
  • Greg Brenman
  • Steven Knight
  • Cillian Murphy
  • Jamie Glazebrook
  • Frith Tiplady
Producer(s)Katie Swinden
Production location(s)
CinematographyGeorge Steel
Running time55–65 minutes
Production company(s)
  • BBC Studios
  • Caryn Mandabach Productions
  • Tiger Aspect Productions
  • Screen Yorkshire
Distributor
  • BBC Studios (United Kingdom)
  • Endemol Shine Group[1] (International)
  • Netflix (International)
Budget$1.5 million per episode
Release
Original network
Picture format1080i HDTV
Audio format
Original release12 September 2013 (2013-09-12) 
present (present)
Other websites
Official website

It stars Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sam Neill, Iddo Goldberg, Tom Hardy, Paddy Considine, Adrien Brody, Aidan Gillen, Annabelle Wallis, Charlotte Riley, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham, and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Netflix, under the deal with Weinstein Company and Endemol, have the rights to release Peaky Blinders in the United States and around the world. In January 2021, it was announced that series six would be the last.

References

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