Final Season of 'Peaky Blinders' Gets a BBC Premiere Date

The beginning of the end is here: The BBC has announced that the final season of popular gangland period drama Peaky Blinders will premiere this February.

Set during the aftermath of World War I, the story follows the exploits of Tommy Shelby and his family, leaders of the infamous gang known as the Peaky Blinders. (Though the Shelbys are fictional, the gang they are a part of did exist during the 1890s, even if the real group never gained nearly as much power or influence as Tommy and his brothers wield.) As we head into the final season, the Peaky Blinders are reeling from a failed assassination attempt against fascist leader Oswald Mosley which has left several key players injured or dead, an event which may well have been caused by one of their own turning traitor.

The February 27 U.K. broadcast date for the final season was announced in especially dramatic fashion, by way of a 42-foot mural unveiled over Digbeth's Old Crow in Birmingham, home of the fictional Shelby clan.