TV Casting: PICARD STAR TREK Series, BARKSKINS, Pablo Schreiber is Master Chief in HALO, & More

TV Show Casting for Picard Star Trek Series, Barkskins, Halo, and More

Picard Star Trek Series, Barksins, Halo, and other TV productions have made recent TV show casting, TV movie casting, and TV directing news. These shows and movies air on: ABC, The CW, Netflix, Fox, NBC, DC Universe, Showtime, HBO, Hulu, TNT, YouTube Premium, CBS, CBS All Access, Apple TV+, Epix, Hulu, Paramount Network, and Amazon Prime. Beware of spoilers in these casting announcements.

Showtime

Halo

Pablo Schreiber has been cast as Master Chief, “Earth’s most advanced warrior in the 26th century and the only hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the Covenant.”

Yerin Ha has been cast as Quan Ah, “a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for them both.”

Halo‘s plot synopsis: “Master Chief, Earth’s most advanced warrior in the 26th century, …[is] the only hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the Covenant, an unstoppable alliance of alien worlds committed to the destruction of humanity…HALO will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001, dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. HALO will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.”

Hulu

Castle Rock

John Hoogenakker has been cast as unspecified character with “a complicated connection to Wilkes.”

This actor joins already cast: Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Elsie Fisher, Barkhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama, Paul Sparks, and Matthew Alan.

Castle Rock: Season 2’s plot synopsis: “The upcoming season will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, King’s nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.”

CBS All Access

Captain Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek Series

Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, and Isa Briones have been cast in unspecified roles.

This actor and actress join already cast Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, and Patrick Stewart.

National Geographic

Barkskins

David Thewlis has been cast as Monsieur Claude Trepagny, “a wealthy landowner with grand visions for New France.”

Barkskins‘ plot synopsis: based on the novel by Annie Proulx, “Barkskins follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization—1600s New France—where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.”

David Slade will be directing the series.

USA Network

Queen of the South

Vera Cherny has been cast as Oksana Volkova, “a tough-as-nails, woman of big appetites and no apologies. She has close ties to the Russian mob in New York and controls the distribution of molly in Atlanta. Since escaping prison in Chechnya, the underworld is her natural habitat and she’s chosen the accumulation of power over personal relationships.”

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