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A Thousand Blows

Created by Steven Knight

2025–present

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

First aired
21 Feb 2025
Episode length
48 min
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Writers
Ameir Brown, Harlan Davies, In-sook Chappell and 2 others
Executive producers
Damian Keogh, David Olusoga, Hannah Walters and 7 others
Producers
Barrington Paul Robinson, Jo Johnson, Stephen Haren
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Seasons · 12 episodes

  • Season 1

    2025

    In season 1, 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.

  • Season 2

    2026

    One year later, Hezekiah's a shadow of the man he once was whilst Sugar Goodson is estranged from his family and drinking himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath, Mary Carr bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice Diamond, to reassemble her gang and reclaim her crown. As always, Mary has a plan; one which will involve all those she holds dearest. And this time it's riskier than ever.

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