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They’re back. Ned Dennehy and Packy Lee will reprise the roles fans thought were gone for good — Charlie Strong and Johnny Dogs — in the fresh Peaky Blinders series now in production.
Netflix and the BBC have quietly bolstered the cast with some eye-catching additions: Conleth Hill joins the fray, and alongside him come Daniel Monks, Samuel Batemly, Arturo Muselli, Eugene Collins, Lucy Short-House and Cal O'Driscoll. Familiar faces. New threats. The franchise is widening its map.
Directorial duties fall to Mike Barker and Anna Zackrisson, while Stephen Knight returns as creator and writer, steering the story. The series also nods to the cinema continuation — Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man — by bringing back those recognisable allies and antagonists into a larger, more mythic struggle.
Conleth Hill slips into the role of Colmie Killer, the iron‑fisted patriarch of a family determined to reshape postwar Birmingham on their terms. Cal O'Driscoll plays his son Aidan, a volatile heir with everything to gain. Daniel Monks appears as Detective Inspector Bell, a figure whose loyalties and methods will complicate every move on the board.
Timing is everything. The new series opens roughly a decade after WWII, when a battered city becomes the arena for rebuilding and ruthlessness in equal measure. Jamie Bell’s Duke and Charlie Heaton’s Charles Shelby find themselves in a Birmingham that offers vast opportunity — and equal peril. Old alliances will be tested. New ones will form. Can the Shelbys navigate this new order?
Production is underway in and around Birmingham, with filming centred at Digbeth Loc. Studios. The show will air on BBC platforms in the UK and stream worldwide on Netflix, keeping the global audience plugged into every twist.
Expect familiar faces to stir old loyalties and ignite fresh conflicts as the Peaky world expands.
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