'Peaky Blinders' Will Officially End with Season 6

It looks like the Shelby family is officially retiring. At least in the form in which we currently know them.

Producers confirm that popular period gangster drama Peaky Blinders will conclude after its sixth season, which is currently in production. This news will likely come as a shock to many fans, given the global success of Season 5 and the fact that creator Steven Knight has always said that his hope for the show was to take the story of the Birmingham clan through the entire interwar period and end it on the eve of World War II.

But thanks to the pandemic that has rocked the film and television industry over the past year, it sounds like Peaky Blinders may just be another casualty of coronavirus. The sixth season, which recently began filming, has been delayed for over a year, and that fact likely played a significant part in its early demise.