

The first series concludes on 3 December 1919 Black Star Day, the event where the Peaky Blinders plan to take over Billy Kimbers betting pitches at the Worcester Races. Winston Churchill (played by Andy Nyman in series 1 and Richard McCabe in series 2) charged him with suppressing disorder and uprising in Birmingham and recovering a stolen cache of arms meant to be shipped to Libya. The gang comes to the attention of Major Chester Campbell ( Sam Neill ), a Detective Chief Inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) sent over by Winston Churchill from Belfast, where he had been sent to clean up the city of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Communists, gangs and common criminals.

The story centres on the Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly cunning boss Tommy Shelby ( Cillian Murphy ).

In January 2021, it was announced that the sixth series would be the final television series of Peaky Blinders. Netflix, under the deal with Weinstein Company and Endemol, had acquired the rights to release Peaky Blinders in the United States and around the world. The show premiered on 12 September 2013, telecast on BBC Two until the fourth series, and then shifted to BBC One for the fifth series.
