TV & Film
Peaky Blinders final season premiere date has officially been confirmed
Season six is very nearly here
The premiere date for the long-awaited sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders has officially been confirmed, and fans don’t have long to wait.
The official Peaky Blinders social media accounts posted the good news this morning, confirming that the new season will launch on February 27th.
To announce the news, the BBC enlisted the help of legendary Mancunian graffiti artist Akse P19 to create a mural of Tommy Shelby in Digbeth, Birmingham.
They captioned a video of the mural being painted: “The Shelbys are back in business. Watch the final series of Peaky Blinders on iPlayer from 27 February.”
The show’s creator Steven Knight previously promised fans that Peaky Blinders will return with ‘a bang’, saying, as per The Radio Times: “We believe this will be the best season of all and are sure that our amazing fans will love it. While the TV season will be coming to an end, the story will continue in another form, [a movie].”
Last year a teaser trailer, which showed Manchester’s Castlefield standing in as a dark and gloomy 1940s Birmingham, dropped, before the official first look at the upcoming season was unveiled last month.
Going by the trailer, the new series will follow Tommy Shelby’s last stand, with the character – played by Cillian Murphy – saying in the clip: “We’ve a very powerful enemy… This will be the end of it.”
Shelby then adds: “One last deed to be done… Then we Peaky Blinders rest.”
The rest of the trailer reveals very little about the story, only showing various characters and moments from the upcoming chapter.
But perhaps the most prominent part of the clip is the appearance of Stephen Graham, who will be making his Peaky Blinders debut for the final season.
It was first announced that the This is England actor was joining the cast back in April 2021, with the official Peaky Blinders social media pages sharing a first look image of him in a pinstripe period costume alongside the caption: “We’re thrilled that Stephen Graham has joined the cast of #PeakyBlinders series 6.”
Peaky Blinders Official & Matt Squire / Instagram
As is the case with the whole storyline, details surrounding Graham’s character have been kept tightly under wraps, with the trailer only showing him briefly while in the middle of a brawl… So we can expect some seriously exhilarating stuff.
Cillian Murphy previously said he is unsure if his character has been redeemed in the final series, adding that he thinks this is what Steven Knight was aiming for.
The 45-year-old went on to say he loved his time on the show, saying: “It’s only this year that it felt hard.
“I’m still shocked by how it went from this small little show on BBC Two to this worldwide phenomenon.”