‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 7 Confirms Returning Favorites
The next generation of Birmingham gangsters is here.
By the order of the Peaky Blinders (or, well, more accurately, Netflix and the BBC), the cast for the highly anticipated sequel series (technically Season 7) is here. As befits a story about an entirely new generation of characters, most are newcomers to the franchise; however, fans will be pleased to learn that this sequel isn’t forgetting its roots in the process.
The new season is set a decade after the events of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, the feature film that brought the tortured story of the original series anti-hero, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), to a predictably tragic end. Now with Season 7, Jamie Bell (Half Man) and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) are set to star as older versions of Tommy’s sons, Duke and Charles Shelby, half-brothers who each have very different relationships with their father’s legacy and the Shelby name.
Netflix has announced the rest of the series’ cast that is joining them, including two faces who will be familiar to longtime fans of the franchise. Packy Lee (Derry Girls) and Ned Dennehy (Good Omens) will be reprising their roles as original series characters, Johnny Dogs and Charlie Strong, respectively; both served as key support systems for Tommy during his time running the family business.
Conleth Hill, best known for his role as the scheming Varys on Game of Thrones, joins the cast as Clemmy Keeler, the fierce patriarch of the Keeler family who rivals the Peaky Blinders’ ambitions to rebuild Birmingham. Cal O’Driscoll (Obituary) is Clemmy’s son, Aidan Keeler, and Daniel Monks (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) plays Detective Inspector Bell.
The new ensemble will also include Samuel Bottomley (Coldwater), Lucie Shorthouse (We Are Lady Parts), Arturo Muselli (Inspector Ricciardi), and Eugene Collins (The Bay). The newly announced cast members join previously announced Bell, Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Lashana Lynch (The Day of the Jackal), and Lucy Karczewski (Stereophonic). However, their roles are also being kept under wraps.
(Smart money still says at least some of these new faces are other members of the younger generation of Shelby kids, but we’ll have to wait and see.)
Here’s the synopsis.
In this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby: older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous.
The ever-prolific Steven Knight (A Thousand Blows) is the creator and writer of Peaky Blinders, with Mike Barker (The Testaments) and Anna Zackrisson (Detective Hole). Tim Whitby (This Town) serves as producer.
The six-episode sequel series is by Banijay UK’s Kudos and Garrison Drama for the BBC and Netflix. It is currently being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc Studios in Birmingham.
There’s no word yet on when we’ll see Peaky Blinders return to our screens. Seasons 1-6 and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man are all streaming on Netflix.
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