Testosterone wafts off Peaky Blinders like moisture evaporating off a stallion’s flanks on a frosty November morning. And that’s about as poetic as you can be talking about this show, especially this week. The horse theme might gallop through the entire episode, but so too does an over-reliance on violence and profanity. None of it … >
Let’s talk about sound design. Hey where are you- no no, please stay, it’ll be interesting, I promise. We take good sound design for granted. TV practically expects us to: awards for it are always briskly packed away in the ‘Earlier in tonight’s show…’ montages at the BAFTAs and Academy Awards. People only notice it … >
Watching the opener to Peaky Blinders’ second season is like swaggering back into your old home town. Just as the streets, the faces, and the noises of your old manor are all as vibrantly familiar and much more impressively dismal than you remembered, so there’s an identical sensation as you hear the ferric beat of … >
Peaky Blinders was without doubt one of the surprise packages of original British drama in 2013; a smouldering, gritty depiction of a 1920’s Birmingham back alley power struggle, boasting a Hollywood calibre cast and infused with a rousing rock-tinged soundtrack. It’s not a moment too soon then that we get set to welcome the arrival … >
While the audience might guess the setting of Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk to be a fictional village in Ireland sometime in the late ‘60s / early ‘70s, the programme specifies that it takes place in “No time. No place.” Very well. Its characters are numbered rather than named. 1 (Cillian Murphy) and 2 (Mikel Murfi) spend … >
BBC Two has released a new trailer for the second season of Peaky Blinders. Six new episodes will air on BBC Two this autumn, with The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy joining the cast as “a charismatic leader who presents a unique opportunity to Tommy”. Other new cast members include Noah Taylor (Submarine) and … >
BBC Two has released a new trailer featuring some of the channel’s upcoming drama series. The one-minute preview includes clips from the second series of Birmingham gangster drama Peaky Blinders, the return of serial killer thriller The Fall, adoption drama One Child and Jimmy McGovern’s convicts drama Banished. Watch the trailer… Series 2 of Peaky … >
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has promised “even greater jeopardy” in the upcoming second series. Six new episodes will air on BBC Two this autumn, with The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy joining returning cast members Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Sam Neill. Knight commented: “It’s getting bigger, it’s getting richer and as a … >
BBC Two has released the first teaser for the new series of Peaky Blinders. Six new episodes will air on BBC Two this autumn, with The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy joining the cast as “a charismatic leader who presents a unique opportunity to Tommy”. Other new cast members include Noah Taylor (Submarine) and … >
Three new cast members for the second series of Peaky Blinders have been revealed. Noah Taylor (Submarine) joins the cast of BBC Two’s gangster drama as the head of an organisation that stands in the way of the Peaky Blinders’ plans for expansion. Charlotte Riley (World Without End) will play an aristocrat who crosses paths … >