In which city was the TV series Peaky Blinders set?
"Peaky Blinders The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang based in Birmingham, England, during World War I. Members of this gang wore a signature outfit: tailored jackets, a lapel overcoat, button waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps. During the 1890s, the slums of Birmingham were overtaken by violent street gangs who, upon the turn of the 20th century, became highly organised with their own systems of hierarchy. Their violent tendencies led to vast amounts of political control and social power. A gang known as the ""Sloggers"" were the first major rivals of the Blinders and"
"Bordesley, West Midlands Bordesley is an area of Birmingham, England, to the south east of the city centre, in the southern part of the City's Nechells ward. It is the real life setting of the BBC series ""Peaky Blinders"", and home to Birmingham City F.C.'s ground, St Andrew's. It should not be confused with nearby Bordesley Green. In Old English ""Bord's leah"" means 'Bord's clearing'. ""Bord"" may indicate 'boards' or 'planks', a place in the forest clearing where timber products could be obtained, but it is also a male personal name. Here, perhaps as early as the 7th century, Bord"
"Tommy Shelby, the gang's leader, and Sam Neill as Chester Campbell is a commissioned detective from Belfast who is tasked with suppressing the gang. The series creators have reused the name of Peaky Blinders, a 19th century urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890s and were believed to sew razor blades into their caps. The first series aired on BBC Two on 13 September 2013 and ran for six episodes. The second series premiered on 2 October 2014. The third series premiered on 5 May 2016. On 26 May 2016, the BBC announced they had"
"Seacouver Seacouver, Washington is a fictional city in the ""Highlander"" universe. The city of Seacouver appears in the first 5 seasons of """", and is best known as the home of Duncan MacLeod and several other Immortals, as well as many Watchers. The city's name is a portmanteau for a Seattle-like city though the series was filmed in Vancouver, BC. It became the official city for the show. Duncan's place of residence was first identified as Seacouver in the pilot episode of the series, in which he owned an antique and sculptures gallery. He sold the place after Tessa Noël's"
"the platform that serves the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, notable for the period features that it has retained over the years. The station was most famously used in the filming of the film ""Yanks"" (1979) and in the Pink Floyd film, ""The Wall"" (1982). It was most recently used in the filming of ""Peaky Blinders"", a BBC television drama about criminals in Birmingham just after the First World War. Keighley railway station Keighley railway station serves the town of Keighley in West Yorkshire, England. First opened in March 1847 by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (although rebuilt on"
"in Albany. The series is often referred to as the ""Albany Cycle"". The elusive author Trevanian also grew up in Albany and wrote ""The Crazyladies of Pearl Street"", about Albany's North Albany neighborhood along Pearl Street; commentators considered it a semi-autobiographical memoir. Gregory Maguire, author of which was source for the Broadway hit Wicked, also grew up in North Albany. Richard Lipez, under the pen-name Richard Stevenson has written nine books (four of which have been made into movies) in a series about the openly gay detective Donald Strachey, which take place in Albany. From the earliest days of silent"
"starred in three of Anderson's films, ""The Darjeeling Limited"" (2007), ""Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)"", and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" (2014). In 2017, he appeared in the fourth series of the BBC historical drama ""Peaky Blinders"". Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, the son of Sylvia Plachy, a photographer, and Elliot Brody, a retired history professor and painter. Brody's father is of Polish Jewish descent; Brody's mother, who was raised as a Catholic, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and is the daughter of a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat father and a Czech Jewish mother. Brody was raised"
"wall depicting Florida and a television playing ""Queen for a Day"" in the background serve to further amplify the feelings of longing and misfortune present in the story, and stand in contrast with the young girl's naive and relatively carefree perception of the world. The story begins in late summer of 1948 in Spenser, South Carolina. Phillips introduces a young girl named Molly watching her blind mother, Laura, dance at a carnival. Laura and her husband Randal met at a school for deaf, dumb, and blind, where he taught her how to read Braille and make love when she was"
"as in the rest of Northern Ireland, tend to be of Chinese or Eastern European origin, utilising local people as facilitators in their network. In 2014, three nights of violence in East Belfast lead to the Police Federation for Northern Ireland stating: ""The gang culture has to be broken up so that people can go about their business without fear of being struck by a missile or intimidated."" The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang based in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century and, to a lesser extent, in the early 20th century. Philip Gooderson, author of ""The Gangs"
"paid for the fairtrade price of coffee."" Matthew Postlethwaite Matthew Postlethwaite (born 25 September in Whitehaven, Cumbria) is a British actor, singer and artist. He played Nipper in the television series ""Peaky Blinders"". He has an identical twin brother, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, who also is an actor. Before becoming an actor, Matthew studied at Huddersfield University. In order to pay for his degree courses he worked of numerous television commercials, such as for Hell's Kitchen in 2012. As part of his degree course he started a wraps business named ""Wrapik"". In August 2012 he won a business start-up competition held by"
"""Twin Peaks"" (1990–1991). A drama series set in a small Washington town where popular high school student Laura Palmer has been murdered, ""Twin Peaks"" featured FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) as the investigator trying to unearth the killer, and discovering not only the supernatural elements to the murder but also the secrets of many of the local townsfolk; as Lynch himself summed it up, ""The project was to mix a police investigation with the ordinary lives of the characters."" Lynch later revealed that ""[Mark Frost and I] worked together, especially in the initial stages. Later on we started"
"In the AMC period drama television series ""Mad Men"", the character Betty Draper was raised in the ""tiny Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania"". During the show's second season, Betty's father has a series of strokes, and is taken to ""Elkins Park Hospital"" in the script. This would have actually been the former Rolling Hill Hospital, which opened in 1953, and is now known as Mossrehab and Einstein at Elkins Park, part of the Einstein Healthcare Network. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships"
"to Margate, which gets interrupted by Cthulhu rising from the sea. The 2012 BBC drama ""True Love"" was set and filmed in Margate. The show had its first public screening at the Turner Contemporary. J. M. W. Turner's long-term relationship with Mrs. Sophia Booth of Margate was featured in the 2014 film ""Mr. Turner"". In the fourth series (2017) of the British television crime drama ""Peaky Blinders"", Alfie Solomons, a character played by actor Tom Hardy, chooses to reside at Margate, where he’s shot on the beach by Tommy Shelby. Margate has two paid-for newspapers, the ""Isle of Thanet Gazette"""
"P.I."" with another detective-themed show, ""Raines"". Both shows, available on the iTunes Store, offered free downloads of the pilots for a short time. The show is set in the fictional Los Angeles neighborhood of ""Fair Oaks, California"". The real Fair Oaks, California, is near Sacramento. Early promotional images released to promote the series feature the early cast set for the show — Andy, Simon, Lew, Wally, Ruth, and Jessica. The roles of Ruth (Andy's wife) and Jessica (Andy's ""assistant"") were later renamed and recast before the show's debut. Ruth Barker, later renamed Jenny Barker (performed by Clea Lewis), was portrayed"
"Walter Reinhardt, vandalized Tessa's sculpture. Seacouver is known to be architecturally modeled after Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The term Seacouver is sometimes used in a more generic sense when discussing other series or movies set in the United States but filmed in Canada. Seacouver Seacouver, Washington is a fictional city in the ""Highlander"" universe. The city of Seacouver appears in the first 5 seasons of """", and is best known as the home of Duncan MacLeod and several other Immortals, as well as many Watchers. The city's name is a portmanteau for a Seattle-like city though the"
"series from seeing The Blind Boys of Alabama at a concert in Hollywood and noticing how they came on stage in a line, each holding on to the shoulder of the man in front of him. On May 18, 2004 ABC announced that they had ordered ""Blind Justice"" as a mid-season replacement to fill the spot in their scheduled left by ""NYPD Blue"" which was to end part way through the 2004-05 television season. The start of production on the series in Los Angeles was announced on October 25, 2004. The main setting of the series is the police precinct"
"the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and was watched by an audience of 17.2 million households in the United States, about 20 percent of the available audience. The episode was well received, garnering positive reviews after its initial broadcast and in subsequent years, but it has been criticized for unduly prolonging the revelation of Laura's killer. Academic readings of the entry have highlighted the theme of duality and the cinematography in the revelation scene. The small fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend"
"Hampshire, one the sheriff, one the mayor, and one out of work. Local heroes in their youth, they are now tackling grown-up problems such as the economy, their children's educations, and their families. As in most families, the brothers know they'll always have each other to help weather the storms of their changing lives. The show has been compared to ""Picket Fences"", another show by creator David E. Kelley. The pilot was filmed in Plymouth, New Hampshire in 2003, as were the exterior establishing shots and main title scenes. Filming of the series was then relocated to Pasadena, California. Brian"
"series ""Homicide Hunter"", in which former Colorado Springs police detective Joseph Kenda recounts cases of homicide from his career, is set in Colorado Springs. ""BlacKkKlansman"", the 2018 movie produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, is based on the experiences of Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan chapter of Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, dubbed Olympic City USA, is home to the United States Olympic Training Center and the headquarters of the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Anti-Doping Agency. In addition, 24 of the United States' national federations"
"to ban MTV in the town. On the television series ""Little House on the Prairie"", Charles Ingalls sometimes made deliveries to Sleepy Eye, which was portrayed as the nearest larger town to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the Ingalls resided. It was also the (fictional) home of the blind school that Mary Ingalls and her TV-husband, Adam Kendall, ran later in the series. U.S. Route 14 and Minnesota State Highways 4, and 68 are three of the main arterial routes in the city. Sleepy Eye, Minnesota Sleepy Eye is a city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,599"
"Picket Fences Picket Fences is an American television drama about the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin, created and produced by David E. Kelley. The show initially ran from September 18, 1992, to June 26, 1996, on the CBS television network in the United States. It sometimes struggled to maintain a stable prime-time audience and had fluctuating ratings, due in part to its Friday night time slot. In its first season on the air it placed 80th in the prime-time Nielsen ratings and in its second season it moved to 66th. The show's exteriors were shot in the L.A."
"and she is aware that her living with the unattached Blake is a source of gossip. Shrewd and observant, she guards her territory zealously, missing nothing and expertly sifting gossip for kernels of fact, which she dispenses when necessary. Her maternal tendencies are often a source of annoyance to her nephew Danny Parks, whom she treats like a son, and lodger Mattie O'Brien, whose outgoing attitude she does not understand at all. When Danny Parks moves out, police sergeant Charlie Davis becomes a lodger in the house. The series is set and mostly filmed in the gold rush city of"
"inch thick. Being shiny, the wires had to be blackened. The puppets were made one-third life size with the puppeteers on a bridge eight feet above the set. The horses moved by being pulled along on a trolley, which meant the viewer never saw their feet when they were moving. Continuity for the series was provided by Sylvia Thamm who married Gerry Anderson. The series is set in the fictitious late 19th-century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas, and features the adventures of its sheriff, Tex Tucker. In the first episode, Grandpa Twink relates the story of how it"
"Studio scenes for the first two series were recorded at BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane in London. From the third series onward, studio scenes were recorded at the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. Exterior scenes were filmed in the Lancashire towns of Colne, Bacup, Accrington, Nelson, Burnley, and in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Other locations around east Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the Black Country (Tipton and Dudley) were also used. The exterior of Hartley Police Station seen throughout the entire series run was in fact the real-life police station in the town of Bacup. When the station closed in 2011,"
"hour-long drama on American television to portray the lives of homosexual men and women. Although it was set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, much of the series was actually shot in Toronto and employed various Canadian directors known for their independent film work (including Bruce McDonald, David Wellington, Kelly Makin, John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa and Michael DeCarlo), as well as Australian director Russell Mulcahy, who directed the pilot episode. Additional writers in the later seasons included Michael MacLennan, Efrem Seeger, Brad Fraser, Del Shores, and Shawn Postoff. The series follows the lives of five gay men living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Brian (Gale"
"was filmed in Crich, Matlock and other Peak locations. Peak District The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. An area of great diversity, it is split into the Dark Peak, where most of the moorland is found and the geology is gritstone, and the limestone area of the White Peak. The Peak District National Park became the first national park in the United Kingdom in 1951. With its proximity to the"
"Matthew Postlethwaite Matthew Postlethwaite (born 25 September in Whitehaven, Cumbria) is a British actor, singer and artist. He played Nipper in the television series ""Peaky Blinders"". He has an identical twin brother, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, who also is an actor. Before becoming an actor, Matthew studied at Huddersfield University. In order to pay for his degree courses he worked of numerous television commercials, such as for Hell's Kitchen in 2012. As part of his degree course he started a wraps business named ""Wrapik"". In August 2012 he won a business start-up competition held by the Kirklees Council for this business. Matthew"
"then, the main canon has consisted of six feature films, in addition to several short films, comic books, and a short-lived animated TV series. The View Askewniverse is centered on the towns of Leonardo, Highlands, and Red Bank, all located in Monmouth County, central New Jersey. ""Chasing Amy"" also takes place partly in New York, and both ""Dogma"" and ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"" involve road trips. ""Clerks"" is the first film in the series of the View Askewniverse. It follows a day in the lives of two store clerks, Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson)."
"appeared in the paranormal television series ""Ghost Whisperer"", which aired from 2005-2010. Creator John Gray grew up in Brooklyn, New York, which is not far from the actual Grand View-On-Hudson, west of the Hudson River. Piermont is often referenced in episodes as a neighboring town, which is accurate to real life. In the series, Professor Rick Payne worked at the fictional ""Rockland University""; Grand-View-On-Hudson is located in Rockland County, New York. Grand View-on-Hudson, New York Grand View-on-Hudson (or Grand View) is a village incorporated in 1918 in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is"
"filmed at Berkeley Castle in the Cotswolds. ""The Ghost Hunter"" series revolves around Roddy and Tessa Oliver, two ordinary children whose lives are turned upside down when William Povey, a shoeshine boy from Victorian England appears in Roddy's bedroom as a ghost and appeals to him for help. The Ghost Hunter is searching for William in order to obtain 'spectral energy' which is only obtainable from capturing ghosts. At first she seems concerned only to ""collect"" ghosts, but later her intentions become clear. She wants to use their energy to pass through Time itself and thereby have everlasting life. William's"
"exotic investigations such as tracing missing people (or in one case, a prize-winning whippet)—meant that he had little idea what a person walking into his office at the start of an episode would want of him. Many of the narratives portrayed in the series conclude imperfectly, often with Marker leaving the situation as it is—for example, in the episode ""The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets"" he fails to tell his client that she is one of her husband's three wives. The first episode of the series was broadcast (in black and white) in January 1965 and was set in London,"
"a close split decision, but Rocky clearly doesn't mind the outcome. In the closing shot, Rocky returns home and visits Adrian's grave again, thanking her for helping him; ""Yo Adrian, we did it. We did it."" Filming began in December 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2006, it moved to Los Angeles, California and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Scenes in Philadelphia were set in staples such as the Philadelphia Art Museum and South Philadelphia, while Center City was featured more prominently due to Rocky Jr.'s job as an attorney. The scene where Rocky and his son were talking while walking down a"
"the series. The series was filmed in Southern California for its first two seasons and again in its final season. From seasons 3-6, it was filmed in various locations around Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Los Angeles remained as the setting of the show for the entire duration. The move to Vancouver was due to the threat of the series being cancelled due to the high production cost. In seasons 1 and 2, MacGyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach. In season 3, he moved onto a houseboat at an unspecified location, though implied still to"