Steven Knight's boxing drama is anything but subtle

How Stephen Graham was key to bringing Steven Knight's new boxing drama to life
Steven Knight and Stephen Graham have reunited again for A Thousand Blows, Disney 's new boxing drama set in Victorian London. It turns out that Graham was instrumental in the initial idea behind the new show, with the Peaky Blinders boss revealing to Digital Spy what inspired the series.
‘A Thousand Blows’ review: Steven Knight’s boxing drama is anything but subtle
The creator of 'Peaky Blinders' is back on his Victorian turf with a story of bare-knuckle boxing in East London, starring Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Malachi Kirby.
‘A Thousand Blows’ Review: Steven Knight’s Hulu Boxing Drama Blends Genres to Entertaining if Conventional Effect
Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty lead the ensemble of the six-episode drama, which already has more hours in store.
The unbelievable true story that inspired Steven Knight's A Thousand Blows
Steven Knight's new Disney+ series A Thousand Blows is set in the East End of London in the 1880s, and has been inspired by real-life stories of people from that time. Malachi Kirby is one of the leading actors on the show, and he plays the character of Hezekiah Moscow – based on a real person.
‘Fact is more interesting than fiction’: What inspired Steven Knight to make the new Disney+ historical drama A Thousand Blows
The inspiration for the new series, in fact, comes from an old photograph of the boxer Hezekiah Moscow, one of its actors and producers, Hannah Walters – who portrays the pragmatic Eliza Moody, the second in command of an all-female crime syndicate known as the Forty Elephants – tells TechRadar.
A Thousand Blows, review: Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight’s brutal new drama may be his best yet
A Thousand Blows, his new series for Disney+ “inspired by true life stories”, may be his best yet. It brings to life a late 19th-century East London that positively crackles with nefarious possibility. Into this maelstrom it hurls Mary Carr ( Erin Doherty) and her 40 Elephants gang, a group of female pickpockets with eyes on bigger things.
'A Thousand Blows' Review: Another Knockout Series by Steven Knight
A Jamaican immigrant (Malachi Kirby), gang leader (Erin Doherty), and brutal pub owner (Stephen Graham) meet their fates in 1880s East London.
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