[12/18/24 - 06:00 AM] Date Announcement: Hulu Original Series "A Thousand Blows" From "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, "A Thousand Blows" is set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London and based on little explored real-life characters with incredible stories.
[via press release from Hulu]
DATE ANNOUNCEMENT: HULU ORIGINAL SERIES "A THOUSAND BLOWS"
Complete
Season 1
Premieres
February 21, 2025
Three lives collide in a defiant fight to survive.
From "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, "A Thousand Blows" is set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London and based on little explored real-life characters with incredible stories.
The six-episode first season will premiere on Friday, February 21, 2025 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
"A Thousand Blows"
Synopsis: Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.
Credits: "A Thousand Blows" Season one is created, written and executive produced by Steven Knight. Starring and executive produced by Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters for Matriarch Productions, Damian Keogh and Kate Lewis for The Story Collective, and Tom Miller and Sam Myer for Water & Power Productions. Award-winning broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga acts as executive producer on the series with Tom Miller as Series Producer and Barrington Robinson and Jo Johnson as producers. The Original series is executive produced for Disney+ EMEA by Lee Mason, Director of Scripted Content.
Cast: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty, Stephen Graham, Francis Lovehall, Jason Tobin, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Walters, Darci Shaw, Nadia Albina, Morgan Hilaire, Jemma Carlton, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Susan Lynch, Daniel Mays, Adam Nagaitis, Gary Lewis, Tom Davis and Robert Glenister.
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