Naman Ramachandran U.K. free-to-air channel BBC Two has ordered “Idris Elba’s Fight School,” a four-part series that will see the “Luther” star set up an experimental fight school in London.Elba will enlist seven recruits whose circumstances around their upbringing have not given them the opportunities to make the right choices from across the U.K.
and teach them the discipline needed in fight training in order for them to transform their lives and avoid street violence.The series is produced by Workerbee and Elba’s Green Door Pictures.
Executive producers for Workerbee are Rick Murray and Michelle Chappell and for Green Door Pictures are Elba and Lorraine Burgess.“I see history constantly repeating itself and can empathize with these.
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