Disney+, Hulu square up to A Thousand Blows

Disney+, Hulu square up to A Thousand Blows


By Michael Pickard
January 16, 2025

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TRAILER: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham delve into the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London in A Thousand Blows, coming to Disney+ and Hulu in the US on February 21.

The trailer transports viewers to the brutal East End of London, where Hezekiah Moscow (Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of the city’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 (Doherty), 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 (Graham), determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threaten everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

A Thousand Blows is created and executive produced by Steven Knight, who is lead writer alongside  a group of new voices including Ameir Brown, Insook Chappell, Harlan Davies and Yasmin Joseph. The series is directed and executive produced by Tinge Krishnan and Nick Murphy, alongside Ashley Walters and Coky Giedroyc.

The six-part series is executive produced by stars 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. Broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga is an executive producer on the series with Tom Miller as producer and Barrington Robinson and Jo Johnson as producers.

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