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Amelia Schwanke

‘Fact is more interesting than fiction’: what inspired Steven Knight to make the new Disney+ historical drama A Thousand Blows

Daniel Mays wearing a bowler hat in a boxing ring with his arms outstretched .

Steven Knight is bringing a new Victorian street gang to the small screen in the form of A Thousand Blows, an upcoming six-part series about the criminal underbelly of the East End of London's bare-knuckle boxing scene.

Knight is known for the hit show Peaky Blinders, which centered on Birmingham crime gangs during the era, but despite being credited as the creator of the new Disney+ and Hulu series, it wasn't the screenwriter that originally thought of the idea.

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