With the third series kicking off production this week, Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight hasn’t finished causing problems for Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby. Paddy Considine has come aboard to show to play someone who will be a serious thorn in his side.
According to Knight, who talked to Deadline, the new series will find Tommy expanding his crime syndicate internationally, which brings with it new challenges and threats. Among the other new additions are Dina Korzun and Jan Bijvoet, who play refugees who desperately need Tommy’s help. “I am genuinely thrilled at the prospect of Season Three. I think it will be the best yet,” Knight says. “Lots of things familiar, but lots of things are new. It’s still a Birmingham story and it always will be. Now, it has international consequences. I can’t wait to see it myself.”
And in case you were wondering, Tom Hardy will indeed be back as Alfie for some of the episodes along with the likes of regulars Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson and Sophie Rundle. There’s no announced date for the new series yet, but it’ll likely arrive in 2016.
Considine, who is on our screens now in Macbeth, will be seen in horror thriller She Who Brings Gifts, which has yet to confirm a UK date.