If the Artemis II mission has sparked your interest in space travel, the BBC is launching a series you may want to keep an eye on.
Deadline reports that Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Loki,” The Cloverfield Paradox) will lead the sci-fi mystery drama “Sutherland.”
Stuart Martin (Rebel Moon) and Iain De Caestecker (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) will also star in the series, which is set in a near future in the far north of Scotland.
Mbatha-Raw will play Mirren, who works at Paravel Space Hub as flight director for the UK’s first crewed mission to the stars. Everything is going to plan when, just hours after launch, a series of unexplained events engulf Sutherland in mystery and risks destroying everything Mirren’s been striving for.
“Sutherland” is created by James Smythe (“The Last Kingdom”), who writes alongside Laura Grace, Tom Mair, and Helen Kingston. Chloë Wicks and Patrick Harkins will direct.
Clare Kerr is producing. Executive producers include Jake Lushington, Simon Heath, & George Aza-Selinger for World Productions Scotland, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC, Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland, and Smythe.
World Productions produces in association with ITV Studios, which will distribute internationally. The series is supported by Screen Scotland.
Production is slated to take place in Scotland later this year.
