Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby), Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby) and Annabelle Wallis (Grace Burgess) in Peaky Blinders TV show on BBC and Netflix. (Photo: Robert Viglasky © Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd & Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd 2016.)

How long will Tommy Shelby fight to control the cacophonous streets of Small Heath? Although the fourth season of the Peaky Blinders TV show doesn’t start shooting until April, Writer Steven Knight is already thinking about wrapping up the BBC Two crime drama.

Peaky Blinders stars Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Joe Cole, Helen McCrory, Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, Ian Peck, and Annabelle Wallis. Peaky Blinders streams on Netflix in the US.

Will Peaky Blinders End After Season Five?

Knight is currently writing Peaky Blinders season four. The writer tells Radio Times that the program, which has already been renewed for season five, may end with its fifth season.

“Never say never, but we feel that [series] five may be the last,” Knight says. “We don’t know for sure. We will see how we feel about it. Peaky is one of those things everybody loves, and the response has been so magnificent on both sides of the Atlantic.

“I have got the end in my mind; whether that happens at the end of five is the question,” he said. “I want it to end when the first air raid siren sounds in Birmingham.

“It is a story of a family between two world wars. It begins in 1919 when they have just come back from the war and the family’s journey is towards legitimacy and respectability and to leave their past behind. The big question of the whole series is this: is that possible?”

Are you a fan of the Peaky Blinders TV show? Do you think season five is a good time to end, or would you like to see it go longer? What do you think?