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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Carla Feric

Cast for Peaky Blinders spin-off series named starring new gang leader

Jamie Bell
  • Jamie Bell and Charlie Heaton have been announced as key cast members for a new Peaky Blinders spin-off series.
  • Bell will portray Duke "Erasmus" Shelby, the new leader of the violent crime gang, with the story set in 1950s Birmingham, a decade after the film The Immortal Man.
  • The series will explore a post-Second World War Birmingham, following an "older, wiser, more ambitious and more dangerous" Duke.
  • Other cast additions include Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski, making her television debut.
  • Created by Steven Knight, the show has been commissioned for two series, each with six 60-minute episodes, and will be available on BBC iPlayer, BBC One, and Netflix.

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Peaky Blinders spin-off cast named as story moves to post-war Birmingham

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