Mob Rule

The Mafia arrive in Britain hellbent on revenge against the Peaky Blinders.

- Sean Marland

The Peaky Blinders crime family face their most powerful enemy yet when the hard-hitting drama, set in 1920s Birmingham, returns for a fourth series this week.

Gang leader Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) has received a declaration of war from the US Mafia and the arrival of the American gangsters comes at the worst possible time for Tommy, who is alone and vulnerable after the rest of his family were arrested at the end of the last series.

It’s Christmas 1925 when the new series opens and Tommy’s brothers John (Joe Cole) and Arthur (Paul Anderson), cousin Michael (Finn Cole) and Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) are due to be hanged at London’s Holloway Prison.

With Tommy’s enemies closing in, the Peaky Blinders boss knows he won’t be able to survive without his family, but even if he can save his loved ones from the gallows, reuniting them will be tricky.

Joining the cast for the new series are Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, Game of Thrones star Aidan Gillen and Happy Valley’s Charlie Murphy, while Taboo’s Tom Hardy returns as eccentric crime boss Alfie Solomons and Close to the Enemy’s Charlotte Riley once again plays Tommy’s one-time love May Carleton.