Outcasts

The series had been in development since 2007 before finally being produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One.

According to the Daily Express, the original scripts underwent 25 rewrites before filming.

Filming took place in South Africa starting in May 2010, coinciding with the 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in that country.

The fictional planet Carpathia was named by the colonists in honor of the RMS Carpathia, the real ship that rescued survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster.

The character Mitchell Hoban's psych profile gives him a birth date of 12/03/2023 and suggests he may suffer from multiple personality disorder.

Despite disastrous reviews from critics such as The Times and The Daily Mirror, some outlets like The Independent praised the pilot as well written, smartly directed and splendidly acted, and these quotes were used as blurb on the Blu-ray release.

Ratings fell so sharply that the show lost nearly two-thirds of its audience, dropping from 4.5 million viewers for the pilot to 1.56 million by the finale, prompting the BBC to move it from its Monday/Tuesday primetime slot to late-night Sundays after the fifth episode.

A second series had already begun planning, and some scenes were even shot, before the show was cancelled the day after the finale aired; writer Ben Richards said he intended to turn the unfinished continuation into a novel instead.