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Don't Miss 'A Thousand Blows' Twice
Despite Hulu's inability to give 'A Thousand Blows' a weekly release or proper marketing, this series starring 'Adolescence's Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty is worth your time.
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'A Thousand Blows' Season 2 Will Include Multiple Real-Life Events
Much like Season 1, A Thousand Blows Season 2 will draw from real-life figures and historical accounts from London in the 1880s. We run down what to expect in the new season.
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Everything British Worth Streaming in January 2026
It's everything British worth streaming on the major American subscription services in January 2026, from Apple TV to Viaplay.
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'A Thousand Blows' Is a Victorian-Era Knockout
From writer/creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) comes Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, a stylish series about the rough and tumble streets of London’s East End in the 1880s. Mixing boxing, a gang of female thieves, and stories of immigration, the result is a remarkably entertaining six-episode first season.
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The 'A Thousand Blows' Trailer Takes Us Underground for the Fight
It is not actually the case that Steven Knight has at least one dark'n'gritty historical drama streaming somewhere in the TV landscape at any given time; it just feels like it. The TV writer/producer rose to prominence with his Peaky Blinders series in 2013, which
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'A Thousand Blows' New Images Introduce The Forty Elephants
When it was initially announced that Steven Knight's newest series, A Thousand Blows (at Disney+ and Hulu, though not via FX), was about Victorian-era boxing, it seemed an odd turn for the hitmaker. Sports dramas are their own particular niche fandom that rarely overlaps with historical fiction; while
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The Best British Shows Coming to America in 2025
We're ringing in the new year as 2024 finally sees itself out. We're halfway through the future's take on the Roaring 20s and a quarter of the way through the 21st century, making 2025 feel like a year of deep import. Whether the new
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'A Thousand Blows' to Punch Up Hulu in February
The new Steven Knight series, A Thousand Blows, was initially billed as a "historical period drama that revolves around 19th-century era boxing," a subject that's a bit niche but also was, at the time of the announcement, having a moment, as Bridgerton had recently featured it
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Hulu's 'A Thousand Blows' Trailer Sees Stephen Graham Enter the Ring
"You are in London. And this city makes only one promise — that it will kill you the first chance it gets." Such is the promise at the heart of the teaser for Hulu's A Thousand Blows, a period drama teaming with the sort of grit and
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'A Thousand Blows' To Premiere at the 2024 London Film Festival
The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab
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The First Images From 'A Thousand Blows' Take Us Into the World of Victorian Boxing
Steven Knight's wildly popular Peaky Blinders changed the period drama genre, adding gritty realism and unapologetic violence to the world of a Birmingham gang family's rise to power in 1920s England. The show was so successful it ran for six seasons and has spawned a feature
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'The Crown's' Erin Doherty Joins the Cast of Period Drama 'A Thousand Blows'
The Crown Season 4 truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only is this the outing that launched the Netflix drama into the pop cultural stratosphere, but it also gave the series' younger royals time to shine, most notably Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles and