AMERICAN DREAM

US TAKEOVER MADE FOR BLINDIN' BLUES DRAMA, SAYS PEAKY'S STEVEN

- CASEY COOPER-FISKE

PEAKY Blinders creator Steven Knight has said his new series which follows Birmingham City, the football team he supports, “would’ve been a tragedy” if it had been made before the club's US takeover.

Prime Video's Built In Birmingham: Brady And The Blues, which Knight is executive producer on, follows the football club as they are taken over by former NFL quarterback Tom Brady and US business man Tom Wagner.

Knight said: “For most of my supporting Blues career, there's not been a lot to make a film about to be honest.

“It would have been a tragedy or a comedy, or both, previous to this, and then when this thing happened, which most Blues fans still can’t quite believe, that we're taken over by proper people with real money, and with ambition, then suddenly there was a story there.

“It’s the story that Tom Brady, who would win, and win, and win, takes over a team that loses and draws, and (has) just a completely different culture and ethic.