Netflix UK Picks Up Acclaimed Scifi Series ‘The Expanse’
Netflix has taken the global streaming right, excluding the US, Canada and New Zealand, to 10-episode epic space drama The Expanse it has been announced today. Season 1 will arrive on Netflix UK, 3rd November 2016, with season 2 coming in 2017.
Based on the international best-selling book series of the same name, the series is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective (Thomas Jane, Hung) and a rogue ship’s captain (Steven Strait, Magic City) come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Saddam, House of Sand and Fog) portrays Chrisjen Avasarala, a member of a political family dynasty.?? Other series regulars include Dominique Tipper (Vampire Academy), Cas Anvar (Olympus), Wes Chatham (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Florence Faivre (Alpha House, The Following). Jonathan Banks (Community, Breaking Bad), Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains), and Jay Hernandez (Nashville, Gang Related) will appear as guest stars throughout the series’ first season.
The series is executive produced by Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Sharon Hall, Naren Shankar, Sean Daniel and Jason Brown as well as Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby who also developed the show.
The Expanse Season 1 can be streamed from 3rd November 2016 on Netflix UK.
