Steven Knight: ‘With Peaky Blinders, I wanted to do to my own history what the Americans did to theirs.’

Bogotá is an awfully long way from Birmingham, so it spoke volumes about Peaky Blinders’ extraordinary cultural reach when Cillian Murphy’s Midlands mobster, Tommy Shelby, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone’s Colombian edition recently (knocking Billie Eilish down to second billing). “It’s been astonishing,” says showrunner Steven Knight of watching his creation become a global TVContinue reading “Steven Knight: ‘With Peaky Blinders, I wanted to do to my own history what the Americans did to theirs.’”