‘Fightland’ Sets Starz Premiere; Drops First-Look Photos

Starz has set the premiere for its new series, Fightland, for Friday, July 31. The show will premiere with one episode that will be followed by new episodes dropping on the same night weekly. First-look photos of the family crime drama can be found below.

Executive-produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson through his G-Unit Film & Television, Fightland follows a disgraced, formerly incarcerated boxing champion who returns to London to seek vengeance against the crime syndicate he thinks betrayed him. With edge-of-seat action and populated by dangerous characters, this is a world of money and power never seen before.

On the night Duke Kilroy (Howard Charles) becomes world heavyweight champion, a vicious assault leaves his brother, Calvin, dead, causing Duke to snap and resulting in him spending eight years in a U.S. prison. Upon his release, and after having made a sinister discovery, Duke returns home seeking vengeance against the man he believes set him up — the criminal kingpin and former promoter, Kingsley Marshall (Nicholas Pinnock). But Kingsley has vanished, leaving his children and wife, Joy (Deborah Ayorinde), who happens to be the love of Duke’s life, to pick up the pieces.

Working with a cartel desperate to control London’s drug market, Duke begins a high-risk game of infiltrating Kingsley’s empire to destroy it from within and smoke out his enemy. But amidst a volatile criminal landscape, and competing influences threatening to pull him off course, Duke will need to channel everything that made him a champion fighter into his bloody pursuit to win the ultimate victory – revenge for his brother.

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In addition to Charles, Pinnock, and Ayorinde, Fightland stars Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Cebella “Cece” Marshall, Charles Babalola as Ezekiel “Zeek” Marshall, Tahirah Sharif as Kim Harper, Tyler Conti as Justin “Jay” Hall, and Richard Pepple as Gary “Gazzer” Kilroy.,

The series is created by Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan & Marlon Smith, who also serve as executive producers and writers, and Damione Macedon (Power, BMF) & Raphael Jackson Jr. (Power, BMF), who serve as showrunners, executive producers and writers.

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Jackson executive produces through his G-Unit Film & Television, along with Francis Hopkinson and Kate Leadbetter of Expanded Media, who also produce. Otto Bathurst directs and executive produces the first two episodes. Fightland is Starz’s first wholly owned series as the network continues to bolster its fully owned programming pipeline as a standalone company.

Here are more first-look photos: