Jamie Bamber Returns to Sci-Fi in BBC's Outcasts

British actor Jamie Bamber, who starred as Lee ''Apollo'' Adama in the revived Battlestar Galactica series, will once again star in a Sci-Fi project for the BBC titled Outcasts.

The actor is only one in a major ensemble cast which includes Liam Cunningham (The Mummy 3, Clash of the Titans), Hermione Norris (Cold Feet, Spooks), and Eric Mabius (Resident Evil, Ugly Betty). Below is the BBC programme info:

A group of courageous pioneers face a unique opportunity: the chance to build a new and better future on another planet. Outcasts is an epic new eight-part drama series created by Ben Richards for BBC One.

They are led by President Tate and his core team of Stella, Cass and Fleur – they took charge and settled here first alongside Expeditionaries Mitchell and Jack.

They are a diverse group of individuals who left their old lives behind in extraordinary circumstances; promised a second chance at life they created a society, far away from their home, friends, family... and their pasts.

Settled in the town of Forthaven on Carpathia, they are passionate about their jobs, confident of their ideals and optimistic about the future. They work hard to preserve what they've built on this planet they now call home, having embraced all the challenges that come with forging a new beginning.

The planet offers the possibility for both corruption and redemption; while they try to avoid the mistakes made on Earth, inevitably our heroes cannot escape the human pitfalls of love, greed, lust, loss, and a longing for those they've left behind.

As they continue to work and live together they come to realise this is no ordinary planet... is there a bigger purpose at work? Mystery lurks around them and threatens to risk the fragile peace of Forthaven.

We meet our characters at a moment of incredible anticipation, they've lost all contact with Earth but the arrival of the last known transporter signals fresh hopes and dreams. Will Stella's husband and daughter, who she heartbreakingly left behind, be on board? Why does Tate seem anxious about one particular passenger, Julius Berger? Most nerve-wracking of all, will it land safely and bring a fresh perspective on the new world with it?
[BBC]

The series will shoot in South Africa, look for it in the UK in the fall.
(Via Io9)

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