Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has said that he is proud of the programme’s international success. He told Peaky Blinders TV that while Netflix does not release its viewing figures the success of the series in the US has been “astonishing”.
The crime drama, which is set in interwar Birmingham, has run for five series and the filming of the sixth has been postponed because of coronavirus.
When asked what makes him proudest about the series, Knight said: “It’s the way people have taken to it. The international audience that all get it. “Birmingham, 1920s, gangsters – it doesn’t immediately sound like an international franchise. “I couldn’t give a comprehensive explanation of why it’s become so popular, even in places where there’s no
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