The 'Champion' Trailer Brings Black British Music to Netflix

Netflix used the long Juneteenth weekend to debut its yearly marketing extravaganza, the ridiculously-named Tudum, and drop release dates and photos (and a trailer or two) from its upcoming series. However, one upcoming series got left off the menu, the brand new co-production Champion, which Netflix is doing alongside the BBC. The series, which is a love letter to modern Black music culture in the U.K., may not be one that's aimed at American audiences, which is far more used to its rap laced with R&B or southern twang than the accented motormouth of grime. However, the BBC was undeterred and released the extended trailer for viewers to check out.

The series hails from Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams, and part of the BBC's plethora of diverse voice projects that have been coming to fruition since mid-2022. Those projects include 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 is an original story not based on her prior best-sellers, and Netflix boarded as a co-producer in June 2022. Filming started a month later in Birmingham in July 2022 and wrapped in the fall.

The series' trailer not only introduces viewers to the Champion family at the heart of the series but is a showcase for the original music viewers can expect from the show.