Bamber Cast in New Sci-Fi Series

Actor Jamie Bamber, best known for his work as Lee Adama on “Battlestar Galactica,” has been cast for the upcoming television series, “Outcasts.”

The series is a joint production of BBC America, the BBC and d Kudos Film & Television and was created by “MI:5″‘s Ben Richards.

The series is about survivors from a destroyed Earth and their drive for power, politics and sex as they settle in on a new planet. The series is in production in South Africa and stars Bamber, Eric Mabius, Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Amy Mason and South African actress and model Jeanne Kietzmann. No word on when we might see it.

Here’s the official description for the show:

“Outcasts” is set in 2040 on a recently-discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world. This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learnt from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet.

The series begins on the day the last known transporter from Earth arrives, prompting great excitement on the new planet – who is on board? Friends and loved ones? Important supplies and news from Earth? But also many questions – will the new people bring the problems of Earth with them? Will the mistakes that destroyed Earth be repeated? Will the arrival of a new, would-be leader, rock the fragile and precarious equilibrium of the fresh, unified and courageous new world? And, most importantly of all, how is a new and better world created?