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Legendary Birmingham band Duran Duran are headlining the opening ceremony celebrations at the Commonwealth Games 2022 tonight. Steven Knight, the creative force behind the BBC smash-hit drama series Peaky Blinders, is also on hand as executive producer of the opening ceremony and says he has a few surprises for the audience.
Hundreds of fans turned out for the red carpet premiere of the final series of Peaky Blinders in Broad Street, Birmingham. Fans of the show braved freezing temperatures on Thursday night (24 February) to be dazzled by glitz and glamour as stars of the show strutted down the red carpet.
Birmingham City Council chiefs have hailed plans by the BBC to move production of flagship show MasterChef to the city. Yesterday’s announcement that popular BBC television series MasterChef is relocating to Birmingham has been welcomed as a boost for long-standing plans to regenerate the Digbeth area of the city.
Production of the BBC’s MasterChef show will be moved to Birmingham from 2024, producers have announced. It will be the first time the popular cooking programme will be made outside of London in more than 20 years.
Birmingham will be “home to the future of the BBC” following the launch of a new apprentice hub, BBC Director-General Tim Davie has said. Mr Davie made the comments while addressing creative sector employers from across the West Midlands at an event today (Friday 18 February).
Exciting news was announced today as Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight unveiled plans to shoot his Peaky Blinders feature film in a new Birmingham studio. The brand new film and TV production studio will be built in Digbeth in an area that would have been familiar to the original Brummie gangsters.
More than 300 fans of BBC One’s epic Peaky Blinders are in with a chance of scoring tickets to the premiere of the final series. The red carpet spectacular will be held on Thursday 24 February in the notorious gang’s motherland of Birmingham. Today, Friday 11 February at 6pm a free ticket draw will launch…
Production of the highly anticipated latest series of ‘Peaky Blinders’ has been shelved by the BBC due to concerns over coronavirus. The cast and crew of ‘Peaky Blinders‘ which was set to start filming for series six have been told that production has temporarily halted due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak sweeping across the…
Digbeth became a Peaky Blinders capitol as a major festival took place across several streets and venues last weekend. The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival took over a number of buildings, units, warehouses, and compounds around the Custard Factory and turned the place into an immersive Peaky Blinders experience. This was the launch of the first-ever…
Internationally-renowned actor Sam Neill appeared in The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival in Digbeth on Saturday and was pleasantly surprised when fans sang ‘Happy Birthday’ as he sat with cast members from the hit BBC series. Sam Neill, who turned 72 today, was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, and later moved to New Zealand.