New NatGeo original coming September 6

TORONTO – Corus Entertainment’s National Geographic channel will premiere a new drama, Barkskins, on September 6th. Filmed outside Quebec City, the eight-part limited series examines a mysterious massacre of settlers “in the vast and unforgiving wilds of 1690s New France that threatens to throw the region into all-out war,” says the press release. “Likely suspects abound — the English, the Hudson’s Bay Company and a band of Kanien’kehá:ka (Iroquois) possibly in league with the English looking to drive the French from the territory — but who or what brought these settlers to such a tragic end?” Barkskins was created by...