Peaky Blinders new series: release date points to 2027 — no Cillian Murphy, but two full seasons are already locked
The Shelbys are getting a full-scale second life — cameras are already rolling, the cast is stacked, and the one name missing from it is the whole story.
The Peaky Blinders sequel series doesn't have an official premiere date, but it has something rarer: a guaranteed future. The BBC and Netflix ordered two seasons up front, six hour-long episodes each, before a single frame existed — and cameras have been rolling since March 4, 2026. Do the arithmetic on a March start, a six-episode season, and Netflix's post-production pipeline, and everything points to a 2027 premiere, with season two banked right behind it.
Birmingham, 1953, no Tommy
Steven Knight's new chapter jumps to 1953, a decade past this spring's film The Immortal Man, into a Birmingham flattened by the Blitz and rebuilding itself — with, per the official logline, the race for the city's reconstruction money becoming a brutal contest
"with the Shelby family right at its blood-soaked heart."
The generational handover is the point. Knight framed it himself at the announcement:
"The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel."
Which brings us to the wheel's previous owner. Cillian Murphy is attached strictly as executive producer — his name is on the paperwork, not the call sheet. After six seasons and a film, the man who was the franchise is now supervising it from a safe distance, and every cast announcement since has quietly confirmed the same thing: no Tommy in the ensemble.
Who's actually in it
The lineup Netflix has assembled so far is not messing around:
- Jamie Bell, presumably cashing in decades of goodwill for the right to wear an excellent coat.
- Charlie Heaton, escaping Hawkins for the West Midlands.
- Jessica Brown Findlay, a period-drama veteran returning to home turf.
- Lashana Lynch, the biggest get of the batch, fresh off Bond and Marvel.
- Lucy Karczewski, the newcomer slot every Peaky generation needs.
Production is split between Knight's own Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham — built in part so this franchise would never have to fake his hometown again — and the Stoke-on-Trent locations where filming kicked off. The original run, for the record, went six seasons between 2013 and 2022, won the BAFTA for best drama, and turned a Brummie street gang into a global Halloween costume.
Until the new series lands, the entire saga — all six seasons plus The Immortal Man — is streaming on Netflix, and the film hit No. 1 on the platform's Top 10 within days of its March release.
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