FX’s upcoming new drama series Lights Out debuts on 1-11-11. The feel that you get from the trailer is an epic comeback story ala Rocky. The show stars Holt McCallany as an aging former heavyweight boxing champion, loving wife Catherine McCormack and every boxing show or movie has got to have an Don King type and that's who Reginald "Reg" E. Cathey plays.
I am a huge boxing fan and love the rocky films and to finally get a television show that focus on boxing and the story of one mans comeback is a knockout in my book.
Watch the trailer after the Jump..
Lights Out, from Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight (In Treatment), stars Holt McCallany (CSI: Miami) as an aging former heavyweight boxing champion who struggles to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after retiring from the ring. Financial problems leave him at a perilous crossroads – battling the urge to return to boxing or reluctantly accepting a job as a brutal and intimidating debt collector. Catherine McCormack (Braveheart) co-stars as “Theresa Leary,” Lights’ wife who is finishing her medical residency; Pablo Schreiber (Law & Order) as “Johnny Leary,” Lights’ brother and business manager whom Lights put through college; and Stacy Keach (Fat City) as “Pops,” Lights’ father and former trainer who runs the boxing gym owned by Lights. Clark Johnson (The Shield, The Wire) and Norberto Barba (In Treatment, CSI: NY) directed the pilot episode. Series Creator Justin Zackham (The Bucket List), Phillip Noyce (Salt) and Ross Fineman are also Executive Producers. Lights Out is produced by Fox Television Studios and FX Productions.
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