Netflix does Guinness: ‘Plenty of scope for Succession-style inheritance drama, but also love, lust, infidelity, intrigue and the rest of the deadly sins’

If Stephen ‘Peaky Blinders’ Knight had asked the universe to gift him a family around which to stage a sprawling, complex, dramatic, tragic and glamorous TV series, he couldn’t have hoped for anything better than the Guinnesses. No wonder his attention has turned their way, with pictures published earlier this week of the Netflix series, House of Guinness , filming in Manchester, with actors James Norton, Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge in pivotal roles..