Game Of Thrones star Conleth Hill to star in Peaky Blinders spin-off
The new show has been commissioned for two series of six hour-long episodes
Game Of Thrones star Conleth Hill will be joining the Peaky Blinders spin-off series, the BBC has announced.
Set in Birmingham in the 1950s, the show will follow gangster Tommy Shelby’s family as they navigate the aftermath of the Second World War and the race to rebuild the city becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.
The series stars Jamie Bell and Charlie Heaton as Duke and Charles Shelby as they find themselves in a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy.
The BBC has also announced additional casting for the series, which is being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham.
The new castings include Hill – who played Varys on Game Of Thrones – as Clemmy Keeler, the fierce patriarch of the Keeler gangster family who rival the Peaky Blinders’ ambitions to rebuild Birmingham.
Cal O’Driscoll is Clemmy’s son, Aidan Keeler, while Daniel Monks is Detective Inspector Bell.
Other cast members include Samuel Bottomley as Eliot, Arturo Muselli as Angelo, Eugene Collins as Frank and Lucie Shorthouse as Kezie Lee.
Ned Dennehy and Packy Lee are also reprising their roles from the series and film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man as Charlie Strong and Johnny Dogs respectively.
The new cast join previously announced stars including Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski. Details of their roles will be shared at a later date.
The Peaky Blinders spin-off series is being directed by The Testaments’ Mike Barker and Detective Hole’s Anna Zackrisson.
The sequel follows the award-winning TV series, which ended in 2022 and starred Cillian Murphy as ruthless Tommy, the leader of the Peaky Blinders.
It is set a decade after the events of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a feature-length film released earlier this year in which Murphy returned as Tommy and Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan starred as Duke.
When it was announced, screenwriter Steven Knight said: “Once again it will be rooted in Birmingham and will tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel, and it will be a hell of a ride.”
The new show has been commissioned for two series of six hour-long episodes and will premiere in the UK on BBC iPlayer and BBC One, as well as on Netflix across the rest of the world.
The original Peaky Blinders series launched on the BBC in 2013.
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