Finale time. But not the final time we’ll see the members of Shelby Company Ltd. With two more seasons commissioned, we’re basically hanging up our flat caps for a bit and pressing the snooze button. Not that there’s anything soporific about Season 3’s finale; a punchy hour which both proves that the show’s got more … >
BBC Two’s multi-award-winning gangster epic Peaky Blinders returns for a third season. The six new episodes see Tommy Shelby pulled into the glamorous and dangerous world of international intrigue in 1920s Britain, putting his entire organisation and family at risk, and forcing him to question everything about his own ambitions and desires. > Buy the … >
You’ll no doubt be amazed to hear that there isn’t a Guinness World Record for ‘Number of sex acts performed in an hour of BBC Two drama’. If there were, tonight’s episode of Peaky Blinders would without doubt be the new world record holder; raising that Guinness certificate in one hand and triumphantly gripping its throbbing … >
We linger on a shot of a stag. A creature that is the symbol of power and Alpha-male ‘Lord of the Manor’ masculinity. And you know it’s about to die. Yep. BANG. A creature of majestic dominance in its natural surroundings is felled, all as an act of remembrance for Tommy’s dad, the deadbeat swindler … >
BBC Two has today announced the commission of a further two seasons of Peaky Blinders. Created and written by Steven Knight, the epic 1920s Birmingham-based gangster show launched on BBC Two in September 2013. The third season is currently airing at 9pm on Thursday nights, starring Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson. > Buy the complete Season 1-2 box set on … >
No dusty Nick Cave vocals this week. A lugubrious cover version of ‘Red Right Hand’ plays. The kind that John Lewis would use in a Christmas ad, if John Lewis sold cursed furniture, malevolent springs, and souls trapped in Kilner jars. Immediately you know that all isn’t well. Grace is dead. Tommy’s in mourning with … >
Remember kids, smoking isn’t cool. Smoking kills. That said, Cillian Murphy makes puffing on a death stick look like the coolest thing in the world. From the way he effortlessly slips it into his mouth (left side, then sliding it to the right), to the way he holds a fag-end as he faces everyone from … >
Unashamedly swaggering back into the Thursday night BBC Two drama slot that still has the cordite smell and police tape of Line of Duty hanging around it, you might think Peaky Blinders has big boots to fill. But Peaky Blinders doesn’t give a fuck about boots. It’s striding in, sitting down, taking off its razor-blade … >
After Jenna Coleman’s surprisingly long stint as Clara Oswald came to a close last year, the TARDIS is vacant once again. But even though Doctor Who is on the verge of massive change with Steven Moffat being replaced as showrunner by Chris Chibnall in 2018, it seems likely that at least one thing Moffat will … >
The BBC has confirmed that Dickensian has been axed after just one season. The 20-part period drama series launched last December, initially attracting over 5 million viewers. However, had halved by the show’s tenth episode. Created by Tony Jordan (Hustle), Dickensian was set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens’ critically acclaimed novels and cost an estimated £10m to make. > Buy Dickensian … >