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Peaky Blinders Series 5 Trailer – BBC

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Tommy Shelby just traded the razor blades for a seat in Parliament.

The BBC dropped the first trailer for Peaky Blinders Series 5 on July 30, 2019, and it wastes no time reminding viewers that Birmingham’s most notorious crime family hasn’t gone soft just because Thomas Shelby now has a title in front of his name. The footage lands as the show makes its biggest platform move yet, jumping from BBC Two to the flagship BBC One after four seasons of building one of British television’s most devoted followings. Steven Knight’s series returns with the 1929 Wall Street crash rattling the background and a new political menace stepping into frame.

• Series 5 shifts the show from BBC Two to BBC One and BBC iPlayer, its highest-profile home yet, arriving later in 2019 off the back of a BAFTA win for Best Drama Series for Series 4.
• The trailer confirms Sam Claflin as Oswald Mosley, the real-life British fascist politician who approaches Tommy Shelby with a proposition to reshape the country, alongside newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy.
• Tommy’s voiceover lines — “There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders” and “This place is under new management, by order of the Peaky Blinders” — set the tone for a season where Cillian Murphy’s character governs Birmingham South as an MP while the gang’s old business keeps bleeding through.

A Crash, a Crown, and a New Kind of Threat

The trailer opens with the ’29 crash hanging over everything, a deliberate choice that puts the Shelby empire’s money — and Tommy’s political capital — on shakier ground than any rival gang ever managed. Where earlier series pitted Tommy against the Italians, the Irish, or Billy Kimber’s outfit, Series 5 hands him an opponent built from history books rather than Birmingham back alleys. Sam Claflin’s Mosley doesn’t posture like a street enforcer; the trailer frames him as a smooth-talking recruiter with a “vision that could reshape Britain,” which is a very different kind of danger for a man who’s spent four seasons solving problems with a blade or a bribe.

That tonal shift lines up with how prestige British dramas have been using trailers lately to signal a jump in scale — much like the marketing push behind Halo’s eventual streaming debut leaned on scope to announce a bigger budget and a bigger stage. For Peaky Blinders, moving to BBC One is the real-world equivalent of Tommy walking into Westminster: same show, much bigger room.

Polly’s Warning and the Family’s Reckoning

Helen McCrory’s Aunt Polly gets one of the trailer’s sharpest lines, and it lands like a thesis statement for the whole season.

“We own the ropes now, guys. Who’s gonna hang us now, eh?”

It’s a line that plays two ways — bravado from a family that’s clawed its way from the razor gangs of small-time Birmingham into Parliament and high finance, and a warning shot for anyone watching who thinks power without consequence lasts forever. Paul Anderson’s Arthur Shelby is shown mid-brawl throughout the footage, a reminder that whatever Tommy negotiates in suits, Arthur is still settling in the street. Sophie Rundle’s Ada Thorne and Finn Cole’s Michael Gray also return, keeping the extended family’s usual internal friction in play alongside the external threat.

The Violence Hasn’t Gone Anywhere

For a season built around a politician’s rise, the trailer is soaked in the show’s usual body count. Gunfights, a car explosion, a man hung on a wooden cross in an open field, and Tommy cradling a body after a blast all appear within the same two-minute cut — proof that Knight isn’t softening the Peaky Blinders’ methods just because Tommy has a parliamentary seat. If anything, the juxtaposition of Westminster politics and roadside executions is the point: the suits changed, the business didn’t.

New cast reveals tend to generate their own wave of trailer buzz the same way a fresh face joining an established franchise can reset expectations for a whole season, and Anya Taylor-Joy’s addition alongside Claflin’s Mosley gives Series 5 two new pressure points the Shelbys haven’t faced before.

Series 5 Storyline Continuation

Series 4 closed with Tommy Shelby’s family holding onto its empire by the skin of its teeth, and Series 5 opens with him governing a Birmingham constituency while the ground underneath the whole country shifts. The BBC has confirmed the season lands on BBC One and BBC iPlayer later in 2019, with no exact premiere date given as of the trailer’s release. Tommy’s closing threat in the teaser — “by order of the Peaky Blinders” — reads less like a boast and more like a man trying to convince himself the old rules still apply now that he’s playing a much bigger game.