The BBC Releases First Images from Netflix Co-Production 'Champion'
Netflix's next co-production with the BBC will bring the Champions to life and introduce them to American audiences. The series Champion, from Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams, was part of the BBC's announcement of a plethora of diverse voice projects announced back in May 2021. Those projects, headlined at the time by deals for Michaela Coel and Shane Meadows, have resulted in multiple series, from Dolly Alderson's adaptation of Everything I Know About Love to Skint Estate author Cash Carraway's original series Rain Dogs, starring Daisy May Cooper.
Carty-Williams's series, an original story not based on her prior best sellers, was billed at the time as a drama "love letter to Black British music set in south London." The script and cast were enough to bring Netflix aboard as a co-producer in June 2022. Filming started a month later in Birmingham in July 2022 and wrapped in the fall. Since then, there's been little in the way of news, but with the BBC's reveal of First Look photos ahead of a planned release later in 2023, fans can finally get a look at the series.
The series is a musical drama, and the first pictures confirm there will be lots of singing, with multiple characters shown crooning their hearts out.
