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• Peaky Blinders

  • Crime genre
  • Gangsters
  • Violence
  • Visual spectacle
  • Period costumes and settings
• Audiences' response to Peaky Blinders

  • More entertaining than shows like Downton Abbey
  • Less sanitized, more violent and dark
• Audiences' response to the historical and semi-biographical nature of Peaky Blinders

  • Informative and educational
  • Appealing to audiences who like historical narratives
• Peaky Blinders' representation of working classes and regional areas of Britain

  • Appealing to educated audiences
  • Responding to Ofcom research on BBC's lack of representation of different regional areas
• Peaky Blinders' social commentary on class, wealth and poverty

  Appealing to left-leaning politically-inclined audiences
• Peaky Blinders' old-fashioned setting, costumes and ideologies

  Offering escapism and nostalgia for audiences
• Peaky Blinders' representations of masculinity and femininity

  • Appealing to audiences who like typical representations of masculinity
  • Appealing to audiences who like counter-typical representations of femininity
• Audiences' response to Peaky Blinders as a BBC drama

  Expecting a certain level of quality
• Audiences' negotiated or oppositional readings of Peaky Blinders

  • Found the show too violent and graphic
  • Felt the show lacked historical accuracy in terms of time period, music, and accents
• Impact of Peaky Blinders on fans

  • Rise in tourism in featured areas
  • Popularity of the show's fashion
  • Fans dressing up and attending themed events
  • Peaky Blinders festival with 20,000 attendees
• Audience engagement with Peaky Blinders

  • Behind-the-scenes content online
  • Fan fiction and fan art
  • BBC holding fan art competitions
• Impact of streaming Peaky Blinders

  Attracting more modern audiences who prefer streaming over scheduled programming
• Appeal of Peaky Blinders' celebrity cast

  Engaging fans of the actors' previous work