{"id":501682,"date":"2026-02-26T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501682\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:57:07","slug":"sky-to-air-starz-50-cent-boxing-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501682\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky To Air Starz&#8217; 50 Cent Boxing Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky\" data-tag=\"sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a> has jumped aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/50-cent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_50-cent\" data-tag=\"50-cent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50 Cent<\/a>\u2018s boxing drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fightland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fightland\" data-tag=\"fightland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fightland<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/starz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_starz\" data-tag=\"starz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starz<\/a> and struck a first look deal with the streamer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFightland just wrapped shooting in London and will now screen in the UK on Sky and Now TV. Exec produced by 50 Cent through his G-Unit Film &amp; Television, Fightland\u00a0follows Maduka \u201cDuke\u201d Kilroy (Howard Charles),\u00a0a disgraced, formerly incarcerated boxing champion who returns to London to seek vengeance against the crime family he thinks betrayed him. The show also stars Nicholas Pinnock, Deborah Ayorinde and Charles Babalola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarz and Sky have worked together on a number of projects including Sweetpea and Amadeus. Starz said today that a new co-commission deal includes Sky future first look partnerships on some of Starz\u2019s upcoming series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be stepping back in the ring with our partners at Sky and look forward to building upon the next chapter of our long-standing creative collaboration together,\u201d said\u00a0Kathryn Busby, President of Original Programming, Starz.\u00a0\u201cFightland delivers a dynamic blend of action and fearless, character-driven storytelling set against the vibrant backdrop of British boxing. We\u2019re proud to debut this bold drama as our first-fully owned original series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t50 Cent and Starz have a long history of working together, having collaborated on several seasons of Power and its spin-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFightland is executive produced by Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson along with Francis Hopkinson and Kate Leadbetter of Expanded Media who also produce.\u00a0Damione Macedon and Raphael Jackson Jr. are showrunners, executive producers and writers.\u00a0Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith serve as executive producers and writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky has jumped aboard 50 Cent\u2018s boxing drama Fightland for Starz and struck a first look deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[21653,703,49,48,200471,11610,82,25271],"class_list":["post-501682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-50-cent","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fightland","tag-sky","tag-sports","tag-starz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}