Peaky Blinders: BBC gangster drama will return for season six and seven, creator Steven Knight confirms

New seasons: Peaky Blinders will return for a sixth and seventh season
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Hatty Collier5 May 2018

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has revealed that the show will return for a sixth and seventh season.

The Oscar-nominated screenwriter is currently writing the forthcoming fifth season of the BBC gangster drama and on Friday confirmed that it will stay on the channel for even longer than fans expected.

Knight also revealed that he has been approached by the Rambert dance company to create a ballet based on the Shelby family.

He told the Birmingham Press Club: "We are definitely doing [series] six and we will probably do seven. After series four it went mad.

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"We've talked to [lead actor] Cillian Murphy and he's all for it, and the rest of the principal cast are in for it."

Revealing talks over a ballet version of the show, he said: “I had a meeting with Ballet Rambert who want to do Peaky Blinders – The Ballet. I’m saying ‘why not?’”

Knight said he is currently the lobbying the BBC to film more of the show in his home city of Birmingham.

"It's always bothered me that Birmingham didn't have that profile. It's a big city and it wasn't shouting about it,” he said.

Knight added that he was trying to get series five filmed in the Midlands city and to have as many actors from Birmingham in it as possible.

Season Four of the BBC drama – the most popular yet - ended in December with protagonist Tommy Shelby (played by Murphy) being elected as a Labour MP for Birmingham.

Filming for Season Five will begin in the Autumn with stars Paul Anderson, who plays Tommy’s brother Arthur, and Helen McCrory, who plays their aunt, is set to return.

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