‘Strike Back’ Season 7 Adds Jamie Bamber & Yasemin Allen To The Cast
‘Strike Back‘ Season 7 has begun production and added two new cast members for the upcoming series – ‘Battlestar Galactica’ vet Jamie Bamber and British-Turkish actress Yasemin Allen (‘Matter of Respect’, ‘Water and Fire’).
Season 7 (or Season 6 if you’re in America), sees a Russian bomber crash in the South China Sea, sending the covert special-ops soldiers of Section 20 to investigate. Whilst there, the team cross paths with Katrina Zarkova (Allen), a rogue Russian operative with questionable loyalties.
Now under orders of a new commanding officer, Col. Alexander Coltrane (Bamber), Thomas “Mac” McAllister (Warren Brown), Samuel Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson) and Gracie Novin (Alin Sumarwata) must pursue the stolen contents of the Russian jet across Southeast Asia. Working alongside the Malaysian police to shut down a Triad gang in Kuala Lumpur, the team uncover a corrupt plot by a wealthy Indian businesswoman running for Parliament and plunge into the jungles of the Golden Triangle in Myanmar, facing off against mercenary drug agents and terrifying warlords, as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens to push the world to the brink of global conflict.
The series is a co-production between Sky in the UK and Cinemax in the US, and the soft-rebooted Season 6 went down well on both sides of the Atlantic. “The rebirth of Strike Back has reestablished Cinemax as a destination for adrenalized, entertaining action series,” commented Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming. “We are delighted to offer Section 20 the opportunity to continue saving the world from mayhem and destruction.”
‘Strike Back‘ Season 7 will be 10 episodes, and is now filming entirely on location in Malaysia. No air date has been set, but we’ll let you know when we hear more.
