Steven Knight and Stephen Graham have reunited again for A Thousand Blows, Disney 's new boxing drama set in Victorian London. It turns out that Graham was instrumental in the initial idea behind the new show, with the Peaky Blinders boss revealing to Digital Spy what inspired the series.

Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty lead the ensemble of the six-episode drama, which already has more hours in store.

The creator of 'Peaky Blinders' is back on his Victorian turf with a story of bare-knuckle boxing in East London, starring Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Malachi Kirby.

The inspiration for the new series, in fact, comes from an old photograph of the boxer Hezekiah Moscow, one of its actors and producers, Hannah Walters – who portrays the pragmatic Eliza Moody, the second in command of an all-female crime syndicate known as the Forty Elephants – tells TechRadar.

Stephen Graham does scary intimidation like few others, and in A Thousand Blows, he’s a veritable battering ram of primal rage and jealousy. Playing a bare-knuckle boxer in London’s East End circa 1880,

No punches pulled in this riveting tale of Victorian London from the wrong side of the tracks. Here's what you need to watch 'A Thousand Blows' online from anywhere.