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A Thousand Blows has a premiere date. The new period boxing drama series will arrive on Hulu in February, with all six episodes dropping simultaneously. The streaming service announced the date with the release of new key art.
Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty, and Stephen Graham star in the illegal boxing drama set in 1880s London. Hulu shared the following about the plot of the series from Stephen Knight (Peaky Blinders):
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.
A Thousand Blows premieres on February 21st. The key art for the new series is below.
(Photo: Hulu)
What do you think? Do you plan to watch this new Stephen Knight series on Hulu in February?
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