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.
StatusIn Production
TypeScripted
Original LanguageEnglish
Network
Season 1 of A Thousand Blows premiered on February 21, 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.
Malachi Kirby
Hezekiah Moscow
Francis Lovehall
Alec Munroe
Erin Doherty
Mary Carr
Stephen Graham
Sugar Goodson
Jason Tobin
Mr Lao
James Nelson-Joyce
Edward 'Treacle' Goodson
Hannah Walters
Eliza Moody
Daniel Mays
William 'Punch' Lewis
Adam Nagaitis
Earl of Lonsdale
Gary Lewis
Jack Mac
Tom Davis
Charlie Mitchell
Robert Glenister
Indigo Jeremy