Peaky Blinders Season 6: When was Peaky Blinders sixth series released, who was in the cast, and what fans expected

By order of the Peaky Blinders, Tommy and the rest returned in 2022 for their final season. The release date was Sunday, February 27th at 9pm on BBC One and the cast included Cillian Murphy as Tommy.

After a long, pandemic-induced production delay, Peaky Blinders Season 6 was finally teased ahead of its 2022 release.

Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby and his gun-toting family returned, coming up against bigger and worse enemies than ever before for their final season.

Audiences previously last saw Tommy plagued by visions of his dead wife, holding a gun to his own head.

So where would Peaky Blinders Season 6 take the mob leader turned businessman, and what was involved with the gang's “one last deal”?

Here’s all you need to know about the final season.

When was Peaky Blinders Season 6’s released?

Peaky Blinders returned on Sunday, February 27th at 9pm on BBC One. Episode one of the final season was called ‘Black Day’.

What fans expected from Peaky Blinders Season 6

The trailer was full of World War Two imagery, including various Nazi flags and emblems.

Fans already saw Tommy getting wrapped up with the Nazi Party in Season 5, so it was clear that the events of World War Two would likely play a key role in the final season.

The TV show's creator, Steven Knight, confirmed in an interview with Empire Magazine that the sixth season would “go into and beyond the Second World War”.

Other than that, fans saw from the trailer that there would be more guns, more striding down grimy streets, and more wild nights for Arthur Shelby.

Ada Thorne was seen stepping into more of an action role, spotted with a handgun on several occasions.

In a voiceover, Tommy Shelby also told the family that this “one last deal” will be “the end of us”, highlighting the high stakes of the final season of the show.

Who is in the Peaky Blinders Season 6 cast?

Cillian Murphy reprised the lead role of Tommy Shelby, opposite Sam Claflin’s villain, Oswald Mosley, following a failed assassination attempt in Season 5.

Other returning actors included Tom Hardy as Jewish mob leader Alfie Solomons, Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby, Sophie Rundle as Ada Thorne, Harry kirton as Finn Shelby, Anya Taylor Joy as Gina Gray, and Finn Cole’s Michael Gray.

Sadly the passing of the late Helen McCrory meant that Polly Gray would not be returning to the show.