EXCLUSIVE: Underbelly has added two to its solid, with Lucian-River Chauhan and Kate Corbett signing on to the twisty crime drama. Cameras are rolling on the collection, which is for Canadian streamer Crave.
Underbelly stars Stephen Amell as a cop within the 1000 Islands area that straddles Canada and the U.S. His character, Officer Henry Roland, finds proof linking a case he’s engaged on to his childhood greatest pal, Tommy Hawley, performed by Hamza Haq.
Chauhan will play the youthful model of Tommy within the six-episode collection. He starred in Apple TV+ supernatural drama Me, which bowed earlier this yr. His different credit embody Amazon’s Encounter and Netflix’s Avatar: The Final Airbender.
Kate Corbett may also seem, and play a personality known as Liv. Little else is thought about her half at this level. Her credit embody Canadian procedural Coroner and indie film The Righteous.
Deadline broke the Underbelly information on the MIPCOM TV market in Cannes, the place distributor Fifth Season launched worldwide gross sales on the present. Murdoch Mysteries prodco Shaftesbury is making the present for Crave.
In addition to Amell, who’s quickly to be seen in Fits L.A., the collection will star Minnie Driver as a the matriarch of a criminal offense household that’s looking for lacking contraband within the 1000 Islands. Different solid embody Tamara Podemski (Reservation Canines), Christopher Heyerdahl (Van Helsing), Katia Edith Wooden (8-Bit Christmas), and Diego Klattenhoff (Homeland).
Manufacturing is underway in Canada. Shaftesbury produces in partnership with Crave, Rogers Collection Fund, and Fifth Season. Chauhan is repped by Paradigm, Atlas Artists, The Characters Expertise Company.
