Peaky Blinders Creator Reveals When The Show Is Going To End

It's been seven months since the last episode of Peaky Blinders but with writer Steven Knight's latest series Taboo proving a hit with critics, it's worth contemplating where exactly that leaves Tommy and the rest of the characters.

A fifth series for the show has been commissioned, but Knight anticipates that could be the final one in the BBC saga.

Knight previously said that the upcoming season is shaping up to be the best one yet, but with more to come, Knight has spoken out about the future of the show.

Speaking to Radio Times, Knight said: "Never say never, but we feel that [series] five may be the last. We don't know for sure. We will see how we feel about it. Peaky is one of those things everybody loves, and the response has been so magnificent on both sides of the Atlantic.

Tommy on his wedding day. Credit: BBC

"I have got the end in my mind; whether that happens at the end of five is the question. I want it to end when the first air raid siren sounds in Birmingham.

"It is a story of a family between two world wars. It begins in 1919 when they have just come back from the war and the family's journey is towards legitimacy and respectability and to leave their past behind. The big question of the whole series is this: is that possible?"

Those left worried by this should take solace in the fact Knight is keen to bring the series to the silver screen after the TV series is finished. And Peaky's fourth season will start shooting in April, to air in October.

This isn't the only revelation about the show that's come out about the show.

Getting Ciggy With It

Credit: BBC

Cillian Murphy, who plays Thomas Shelby, puffs on fags in almost every scene and he's now revealed that he's smoked roughly 3,000 herbal cigarettes since the show began filming in 2013.

"People did smoke all day [back then] and it just became a Tommy thing," Cillian told the Independent.

"There were these rose cigarettes that are herbal - Steve [Knight, the creator] would joke they're one of your five a day.

"I asked the prop guys to count how many I smoked just out of interest, and they think it's something like 3,000."

Sounds like a hell of a lot of tabs to be getting through.

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Topics: Peaky Blinders

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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