All six episodes of the first season will be available on Friday, February 21 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
Battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s, Hezekiah Moscow (Kirby) 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.
In addition to Kirby, the drama stars 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.
Steven Knight created the drama. He executive produces with Graham, Walters, Damian Keogh, Late Lewis, Tom Miller, Sam Myer and David Olusoga. Matriarch Productions, The Story Collective and Water & Power Productions produce.
