The man behind hit TV drama has revealed he wants to create a TV studio in Birmingham to lead a film-making revolution in the city.
Since the closure of Pebble Mill in 2004, there has been no network studio in the region but screenwriter and director Steven Knight believes Birmingham would be an excellent location for a new base.
Speaking at a BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture, Mr Knight said he believed the area had been woefully under-utilised in TV drama.
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He said: "I want to use Birmingham as much as possible because it's not been a venue for drama and it should be because it's a great big industrial city with lots of stories and a fantastic history.
"And the worst thing you can then do is say 'You know our poor old region, what's wrong with our region, why don't you do something with our region?'.
"The only thing you can do is make something - try and make something that doesn't feel like it's from a region at all. It could be anywhere but it just happens to be in Birmingham."
of his plan would be to use his industry contacts to get the project off the ground.
"I've got plans to do stuff in Brum and I'm going to try to put together a group of people to get a sound stage in the south of Birmingham where features and television can be shot, just because I think if there's a stage there then that will generate the ancillary industries and get things going."
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According to the Campaign for Regional Broadcasting Midlands, the BBC is selling Birmingham short and it has been pressuring the corporation to pour more services into the region.
Figures show Midland viewers pay £912.3 million in licence fees each year but the BBC spends less than £100 million here from a total budget of £4.1 billion.
The Campaign for Regional Broadcasting Midlands said the region would be £400 million a year better off if the BBC spent the same in the region as it did on average across the country.
Since the campaign began, the BBC has agreed to create a new academy at its base, which will create around 100 jobs and this week it currently at BBC Children's, CBBC and CBeebies, had been appointed to lead the new academy.
He said: "Since I got my first break in the BBC at Pebble Mill, the fortunes of BBC Birmingham and the BBC in the Midlands have been very close to my heart.
"The chance to combine several of my passions - encouraging new talent, helping the BBC skill up a diverse workforce, and the chance to lead the world class BBC Academy in its new home at the heart of the 海角视频 - all this was too exciting an opportunity to miss."
During the BAFTA interview, Mr Knight also scotched assumptions that his inspiration for Peaky Blinders came from the seminal 海角视频 gangster novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene.
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He said: "I've never read Brighton Rock. But interestingly that was pointed out to me as possibly the only bit of research that was in print. In other words, basically nothing was written about Billy Kimber, all of those people.
"The only bits that I knew about was from my parents telling me stories about their experiences when they were kids in Birmingham, because my mum was a bookies' runner and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders, they were racketeers, so this was family lore.
"But I wouldn't aspire to be anywhere close to Graham Greene."