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 Elwood Reid and based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Annie Proulx. It premieres Sunday, September 6 with back-to-back episodes at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on National Geographic. New episodes air weekly at 9 p.m. for the rest of the season.
The series stars David Thewlis (pictured above, Wonder Woman, Harry Potter) as Claude Trepagny, Marcia Gay Harden (The Newsroom) as Mathilde Geffard, Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk) as Hamish Goames, and James Bloor (Dunkirk) as Charles Duquet.
