Don't hold your breath - Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has said that the fourth season of the acclaimed show won't start filming until March 2017.
The last run of the BBC's period gangster drama finished shooting back in January and screened by the Beeb at the start of May, so a March start would indicate an autumn arrival.
"We start shooting the next series next March, I think," the Cork actor told The Birmingham Mail, before explaining that the show's popularity is pretty global. It's screened in Ireland on RTÉ One, for example.
"The success of it is down to really great writing," says Murphy. "People in America love it, people in Australia love it, people in Poland love it - it's mad."
It had been confirmed earlier this year that the BBC drama – based on a real-life Birmingham gangsters from the early 20th Century - would return for two more seasons, and there's also talk of a film.
On the possibility of a Peaky Blinders movie, Murphy's merely lukewarm. "I'm sort of ambivalent about it," he admitted. "I'm sort of like, 'Eh, yeah, I don't know, I'm not sure'.
"I love the idea sort of theoretically, but it has to come at the right time, you know? You can't alienate the beautiful democratic thing of television where everyone just watches it."
