"1890 edition of The Birmingham Mail. This newspaper is possibly the earliest evidence of the Peaky Blinders put to paper: The BBC television drama series ""Peaky Blinders"", starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill and Helen McCrory premiered in October 2013. It presents a fictional story in which the Peaky Blinders contend in the underworld with the Birmingham Boys and the Sabini gang and follows a single fictional gang based in post-World War I Birmingham's Small Heath area. Many of the scenes for the show were shot at the Black Country Living Museum. Peaky Blinders The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang"
"common criminals. Winston Churchill (played by Andy Nyman in Series 1 and Richard McCabe in Series 2) charged him with suppressing disorder and uprising in Birmingham and recovering a stolen cache of arms meant to be shipped to Libya. The series concludes on 3 December 1919 – ""Black Star Day"", the event where the Peaky Blinders plan to take over Billy Kimber's betting pitches at the Worcester Races. The second series sees the Shelby family expand their criminal organisation in the ""South and North while maintaining a stronghold in their Birmingham heartland."" It begins in 1921 and ends with a"
"(Region 2, UK) through 2 Entertain/Cinema Club in April 2006. Gangsters (TV series) Gangsters is a British television series made by the BBC and shown from 1975 to 1978. Created by Philip Martin, and produced at the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham by David Rose, ""Gangsters"" began televisual life as an edition of ""Play for Today"" in 1975, followed by two series transmitted in 1976 and 1978. The series, set in the multi-cultural criminal community of Birmingham, has remained a cult favourite, memorable for its strong violence, multi-ethnic cast (and realistic – and now rather shocking – depiction of"
"in the rivalry between West Midlands bands. The controversial 2009 musical ""1 Day"", a fictionalised depiction of gang culture in Birmingham, was not screened in the city's cinemas amid concerns that it may have provoked unrest among local gangs. Other films with scenes shot in Birmingham include ""Clockwise"" (1986), ""Brassed Off"" (1996), ""Sex Lives of the Potato Men"" (2004), ""Clubbed"" (2009), ""Danny and the Human Zoo"" (2015)"", The Girl with All the Gifts"" (2016) , ""American Assassin"" (2017), """" (2017), ""Jawbone"" (2017) and ""Ready Player One"" (2018). In the 1920s, Oscar Deutsch opened his first Odeon cinema in the UK,"
"Birmingham (including pub interiors in the Queens Arms) and series two, three and four in Northern Ireland by BBC Northern Ireland. The name of the city is not mentioned. Maps of Birmingham appear on walls and telephone numbers use an 0121 area code, so would indicate Birmingham. The police force referred to in multiple series is the fictional Central Constabulary with the equally fictional East Midlands Constabulary also mentioned. A photo gallery of exterior scenes from series two shows the 4th Street Station on Ormeau Avenue in Belfast. Following the complaint of one viewer, the media regulator Ofcom found the"
"been used in ""Take Me High"" (1973) to contrast the changes in the city. With Britain having no significant film industry outside London until the 1990s, BBC Birmingham has been seen as ""the nearest Britain had to an integrated regional film culture"", producing challenging films that attracted both large national audiences and critical approval, such as Philip Martin's ""Gangsters"" (1975), a surreal but gritty portrayal of Birmingham's multicultural criminal underworld, and David Rudkin and Alan Clarke's ""Penda's Fen"" (1974), which explored the pagan mythology and Mercian identity of the English Midlands. In recent decades many films have been set in"
"Gangsters (TV series) Gangsters is a British television series made by the BBC and shown from 1975 to 1978. Created by Philip Martin, and produced at the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham by David Rose, ""Gangsters"" began televisual life as an edition of ""Play for Today"" in 1975, followed by two series transmitted in 1976 and 1978. The series, set in the multi-cultural criminal community of Birmingham, has remained a cult favourite, memorable for its strong violence, multi-ethnic cast (and realistic – and now rather shocking – depiction of the racism of the time) and highly stylised, post-modern approach"
"1991. The programme led a campaign to prove the innocence of the Birmingham Six in 1985 when researcher Chris Mullin questioned the convictions; by 1991 the men had been released from prison. The classic northern working-class soap opera, ""Coronation Street,"" started a 13-week, two-episodes-a-week regional run on 9 December 1960. It is still produced at the rate of six peak-viewing episodes a week after nearly 60 years, and is the longest-running soap opera in the world. Such set-pieces as ""Siege Week"" and ""the 2010 Tram Crash"" were filmed at the studio. The company also produced gritty drama series such as"
"Birmingham Boys The Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930. They lost control of the South East racecourses to the Sabini gang. Following the Gaming Act 1845, the only gambling allowed in England was at race tracks. The introduction of special excursion trains meant that all classes of society could attend the new racecourses opening across the country. Cash concentrated towards the bookmakers, who employed bodyguards against protection gangs operating within the vast crowds. William ""Billy"" Kimber (born 1882)"
"Station Street is the oldest working cinema in the UK, and Oscar Deutsch opened his first Odeon cinema in Brierley Hill during the 1920s. Birmingham is the location for several British and international film productions including ""Felicia's Journey"" of 1999, which used locations in Birmingham that were used in ""Take Me High"" of 1973 to contrast the changes in the city. The BBC has two facilities in the city. The Mailbox, in the city centre, is the national headquarters of BBC English Regions and the headquarters of BBC West Midlands and the BBC Birmingham network production centre. These were previously"
"Sundays at 9.00am for half an hour. The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example ""The Brothers"" starring Jean Anderson, the children's programmes, ""Play School"" and ""Jackanory"", and the current affairs programme Nationwide during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness. Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and filmed at the ""Pebble Mill Studios"" which included the children's programme The ""Basil Brush"" show. A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was snooker programme ""Pot"
"The most notable of these include ""This Life"" (BBC Two, 1996–1997), about a group of young law students in London; vampire thriller ""Ultraviolet"" (Channel 4, 1998) and police drama ""The Cops"" (BBC Two, 1998–1999), which was so controversial in its depiction of the police force that official police advice was withdrawn for the second series. More recently, the company has made the series ""No Angels"" for Channel 4 (2004–2006), a drama based around the lives of young nurses, and also ""Goldplated"" and for Channel Five it has produced the ""Perfect Day"" trilogy and ""Tripping Over"", a co production with Network"
"Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to"
"attempts to escape once more but Joe finally corners him. Odin dies, having taken a cyanide pill, telling Joe that Yulia has been working for them and continues to do so. On 30 November 2012, BBC Cymru Wales, the division of the BBC for Wales, announced the commissioning of the series. The drama was commissioned by Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC One, and Ben Stephenson, the controller of drama commissioning for the BBC. Filming began in Birmingham, London and Wales in August 2013. Birmingham Central Library was used as the headquarters of MI5 with both exterior and interior used"
"Sunday, 10 April 2011, an episode of Police Academy UK, a TV show aired on BBC Three, which documents 4 overseas police officers introduction to British crime and policing, was set in Birmingham and covered the violence that occurred at the game between Birmingham City and Aston Villa on 1 December 2010. In April 2011, a DVD was released with the title ""Aston Villa Hardcore Lads""; the 70-minute-long DVD shows footage of the Hardcore involved in violence with rival hooligan firms, for example fans of Oxford United, West Bromwich Albion and various clashes with fans of Birmingham City. The DVD"
"BBC Drama Village The BBC Drama Village is a television production facility run by the BBC. It is operated by their BBC Birmingham branch and based largely at the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The centre consists of five buildings - ""Archibald House"" and ""Melville House"", two Grade II listed arts and crafts-style former college buildings on the university campus, and three units on an industrial estate in nearby Stirchley. Facilities include studios and sets, wardrobe and technical departments and extensive post-production suites. The programmes made on the site are ""Doctors"" and ""The Afternoon"
"2 sitcom ""How Do You Want Me?"", with Charlotte Coleman. He went on to appear in a small role in the 1999 movie ""Notting Hill"" as Rufus the thief. In 2000, ""Black Books"" was launched on Channel 4. The sitcom, about a depressed, bitter, alcoholic, chain-smoking, and misanthropic book shop owner, Bernard Black, was based on a dream Moran had in the mid eighties during a weekend away in Limerick. It was brought into existence with the aid of co-writer and fellow Irishman Graham Linehan, and producers Mark Buckley and Albert Kenny of Kenley Studios. The second series was televised"
"to muster 50 officers. Birmingham Boys The Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930. They lost control of the South East racecourses to the Sabini gang. Following the Gaming Act 1845, the only gambling allowed in England was at race tracks. The introduction of special excursion trains meant that all classes of society could attend the new racecourses opening across the country. Cash concentrated towards the bookmakers, who employed bodyguards against protection gangs operating within the vast crowds. William"
"for carrying a gun at 13 years old), ""baby-faced"" Harry Fowles, Ernest Haynes and Stephen McNickle. Early in the 20th century, one of the Birmingham gangs known as the Brummagem Boys (Brummagem being slang for Birmingham) began to spread their criminal network from the streets of Birmingham to around the country. Helped by greatly improved transport, for the first time, regional gangs were able to expand beyond the streets that bred them. The new connecting railway between Birmingham and London meant they could target the racecourse riches of the country's capital. Following the Handsworth riots in 1985, young people banded"
"Spindoe Spindoe is a British television series which was shown on ITV in the spring of 1968. It was named after the lead character, Alec Spindoe, a South London gangster; the plot of the series showed how Spindoe re-established his gangland empire after he had been supplanted during a term of imprisonment, but found once he had succeeded that he is no longer interested. The character of London extortioner and gangland boss Alec Spindoe (played by Ray McAnally) first appeared in several episodes of Granada TV's serial ""The Fellows"". In that series, two university academics based in Cambridge solve crimes"
"on Birmingham on 3 November, but which ultimately failed. In November 2001, three men – Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme – were arrested in connection with the Ealing, BBC and Birmingham bomb attacks. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003. Robert and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played ""a major part in the bombing conspiracy"", was sentenced to 22 years. Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at"
"were a cause célèbre in British television production in the late 1980s, and gained high audience viewing figures with critical recognition as an example of innovative populist television dramatic production. London, autumn 1888. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard is assigned by his superiors to investigate the murder and brutal mutilation of a prostitute in the East End of London. As the mutilated corpses of other ""shilling whores"" turn up in the same area, London's tabloid journalists - particularly Benjamin Bates of ""The Star"" - whip up a public frenzy. The killer is nicknamed ""Jack the Ripper"" after a"
"a missing girl he has been hired to trace—she has been forced into a life of professional vice at the behest of the gang. Partly as a result of this, the beginning of the second series he decides to leave London and moves to England's second city of Birmingham. Things do not improve, and he continues to be mixed up in a world of shadowy figures. The ABC episodes ended with ""Cross That Palm When We Come To It"" (broadcast on 13 April 1968) as Marker acts for a solicitor over some stolen jewels, as a go-between with the gang"
"members who referred to the Birmingham pub bombings as a mistake for which the IRA would never publicly admit responsibility. The made-for-TV film ""Who Bombed Birmingham?"" was first broadcast in 1990. Directed by Mike Beckham, the film is directly inspired by the painstaking efforts of then-journalist Chris Mullin to prove the six men convicted of the bombing had been the victims of a miscarriage of justice, as detailed in his 1986 book ""Error of Judgement: The Truth about the Birmingham Bombings"". The film casts John Hurt as Mullin and Martin Shaw as Granada Television ""World in Action"" producer and fellow"
"after the game including the attack on a Blues supporters pub by Villa hooligans, the events were described as a ""warzone"" by a supporter who attended the game. Birmingham City were later fined £40,000 by the Football Association for failing to control their fans. On 10 April 2011, an episode of Police Academy UK, a TV show aired on BBC Three which documents overseas police officers' introduction to British crime and policing, was set in Birmingham and covered the violence that occurred at the game between Birmingham City and Aston Villa on 1 December 2010. On 17 June 2011, Birmingham"
"TV studio outside London at the time. When Pebble Mill closed in 2004, BBC Birmingham moved to the Mailbox building in the city centre, and to the BBC Drama Village in the Selly Oak district. In the 1970s and 1980s, BBC Birmingham was home to the English Regions Drama Department, established in 1971, and headed by the senior BBC producer David Rose. Its remit was to produce programmes set in various regions of England in order to provide balance to the output from London. Among the Department's best known productions are perhaps ""Boys from the Blackstuff"" (1982); Play for Today"
"Birmingham, Barrington adopted a criminal lifestyle with an addiction to violence; this was during the early 1980s when relationships between ethnic communities in the inner cities and the police force were tense. The decision of Barrington and other members of the black community to make a stand resulted in the 1980s Handsworth riots. In 2006 Barrington was featured in the television documentary ""The Real Football Factories"", broadcast on Bravo. In 2008 a full episode of ""Danny Dyer's Deadliest men"" series was based on Barrington's life around Coventry, hosted by British actor Danny Dyer,in which he described Barrington as one of"
"A Likeness in Stone A Likeness in Stone is a British television crime drama serial, broadcast across two nights during September 2000 on BBC One. The serial stars Liam Cunningham as Detective Inspector Bill Armstrong, a retired cop who returns to service after the body of a student is discovered, 10 years after her disappearance. Determined to uncover the murderer, Armstrong seeks to go behind the call of duty to bring justice to the victim's family. The serial was based upon the novel of the same name by author Julia Wallis Martin. The serial co-starred Jonathan Firth, Andrew Lincoln, Ruth"
"and the third series featuring all of the current cast. Episode 2 was partially set in Birmingham when the gang follow a crooked woman's trick to the city. Guest stars in this series included Anna Chancellor, Angela Griffin, David Harewood, Clive Swift, Hannah Gordon, Claire Goose, Denis Lawson and Roger Lloyd-Pack. Series 7 was the most watched series yet, with viewing figures reaching 7.2 million. The eighth series started airing on 13 January 2012 on BBC1 at 9 pm after being pushed back from 6 January. Creator Tony Jordan said that it would be the last series for at least"
"Play"". BBC Drama Village The BBC Drama Village is a television production facility run by the BBC. It is operated by their BBC Birmingham branch and based largely at the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The centre consists of five buildings - ""Archibald House"" and ""Melville House"", two Grade II listed arts and crafts-style former college buildings on the university campus, and three units on an industrial estate in nearby Stirchley. Facilities include studios and sets, wardrobe and technical departments and extensive post-production suites. The programmes made on the site are ""Doctors"" and ""The"
"Three, following a BBC investment of £10m to allow the online-only platform to commission and publish some of its short-form content in the city, including its ""Amazing Humans"" series. The channel also films comedy series ""Man Like Mobeen"" in Birmingham. The BBC Drama Village, based in Selly Oak, is a production facility specialising in television drama and is the home of nationally networked programme ""Doctors"". Birmingham-based BBC Two television crime drama ""Peaky Blinders"", created by Brummie native film director Steven Knight, is partly filmed in the city, where it has had several of its red carpet premieres. Birmingham used to"
"Doctors (2000 TV series) Doctors is a continuing British medical soap opera which first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined (in the programme) as being in the city of Birmingham, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both a Doctor's surgery and University Campus Surgery as well as their families and friends. ""Doctors"" is produced by BBC Birmingham and is screened on BBC One, with the first episode broadcast on 26 March 2000. It was created by Chris Murray, with Mal Young developing"
"place in the London area between the 1920s and the early 1950s, usually, although not invariably, a murder. Many of the cases featured had made national headlines in their day, such as ""Little Girl"", based on the murder of an East London schoolgirl which had shocked the country in 1939. Each episode finished with an epilogue in which a shot of Seton at his desk dissolved into a shot of the real-life Fabian at the same desk, who then explained to viewers what had happened to the real criminal from the case they had just been watching. Three early episodes"