NEW BOXING ORIENTED TV SHOW

FX who created recent excellent shows like Sons of Anarchy and Rescue Me have announced a new show to begin in January.

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.

Holt McCallany played Teddy Atlas in the HBO movie "Tyson" as well as a fringe role in "Against the Ropes."

Catherine McCormack? The babe whose throat got slit in Braveheart? Hubba Hubba!

Stacy Keach who played aging fighter Billy Tully in the great film Fat City? And who played the Warden in the prison boxing film Ring of Death?

An aging fighter and legbreaker can only bring to mind "Rocky Balboa: The Series."

Here's the trailer