BBC America's new sci-fi series, Outcasts looks at survival in a post-Earth era. Survivors of a dead Earth find and colonize a distant planet and set about the job of setting up a new civilization and, well, just surviving. First showing on UK BBC One TV is tomorrow at 9pm.

About Outcasts
"Settled in the town of Forthaven on Carpathia, the Outcasts 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.
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.
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."

Ben Richards explains where the idea for Outcasts came from and what the series has in store.
"Part of my motivation in the drama was to counter the view that humans are doomed to failure, that we are born bad, that chaos and disharmony will always prevail. Outcasts is fundamentally about second chances – whether human beings are capable of living together in peace and building a better place for their children."

"All of the principal characters are driven during the series by their belief that they can make Carpathia work in spite of considerable obstacles."

The cast includes , Eric Mabius (‘Resident Evil’, ‘Ugly Betty’), Daniel Mays (‘Doctor Who’), Jeanne Kietzmann (‘League of Glory’), and Langley Kirkwood (‘Charlie Jade’, ‘The Prisoner’) Jamie Bamber (‘Battlestar Galactica’).

Full Press Release is here.

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