The first episode of the Barksins series, shot in Quebec, airs tonight at 9 p.m. on National Geographic.
An entire 17th century village has been recreated in Valcartier for the occasion. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, Barkskins follows a disparate group of outcasts who face brutal hardship, competing interests and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilizations, the New France of the late 1600s.
The cast includes David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor, Christian Cooke, David Wilmot, Thomas M. Wright, Tallulah Haddon, Kaniehtiio (Tiio) Horn, Lily Sullivan and Zahn McClarnon.
