Steven Knight Announced The Spinoff Series After Greenlighting A Multi-Racial Musical Based On The Hit Series Yesterday

The creator of the hit TV series Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has announced that he will be developing a spinoff of the show, jumping in time from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Steven Knight stated that: "I want to take the show into their future, or our past for lack of a better word, jumping past WWII and into the 1950s, and how the Shelby family copes with the Cold War and the Kray Twins who terrorized London's East End in the 50s and 60s.

If there is an appetite for the world, then it will continue".

The announcement of a new spinoff show based on Peaky Blinders comes after Knight greenlit a musical/dance adaptation of the show called Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, set to star black and white actors playing a single character simultaneously for the first time in history, as the stage production tells the story of Thomas Shelby's mental fragility and psychological damage endured from serving in WWI and the events of the main TV show.

The main series of Peaky Blinders is already being posed to end with the 2024 movie currently in production, after Knight canceled the seventh season in favour of ending the show with a movie where the protagonist Thomas Shelby is set to face off with the British Union of Fascists (BUF) leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

In real life, Sir Oswald Mosley was a WWI veteran, Baronet, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The future Fascist speaker first became member of Parliament with the Labour Party until forming the BUF in 1932, which was the British Empire's third largest political party by 1939 when the British Empire sided with the Allied Powers in WWII.

After being imprisoned in England during WWII and he was forced to disband the BUF in 1940, he wrote several biographies, published numerous political theses , and also appeared on the BBC and ITV as a commentator on numerous occasions in the 60s and 70s.

On the 3rd of December 1980, Sir Oswald Mosley passed away from natural causes in Orsay, France, aged 84.

Steven Knight has hinted at Mosley returning in the new spinoff series, not as a threat towards the Shelby family, but rather a background figure, as Mosley isolated himself from the British public following the end of the war.

Though Knight hasn't ruled him out of appearing on TVs in the show when the 60s comes to the spinoff show, as Mosley started doing commentary work for the likes of the BBC and ITV around the early 1960s, when he deemed his exile in a 1962 interview with the now defunct newspaper News of the World: "Null and void". 

Some fans also want to see an 80s version of Peaky Blinders, during the height of the Cold War, Pablo Escobar, the War on Drugs, the Crack and AIDS pandemics, and the fall of the Mob across Italy, the United States, the UK, and Ireland.

A request Steven Knight responded to by saying: "If there's a demand for a 1980s Peaky Blinders, I'm all too happy to make it a reality".