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AMC are rounding out the cast of their new SF series Moonhaven, with news that Joe Manganiello will be a lead alongside Emma McDonald and Dominic Monaghan.

He will play Tomm Schultz, an “ex-military with a philosophical bent”. Tomm is the right hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the moon, who finds his ambitions changed when he’s injected with a mind-altering moon drug.

The show, written and executive produced by Peter Ocko, follows Bella Sway (McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A sceptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective, Paul Serno (Monaghan), to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

Kadeem Hardison plays Arlo Noon, with Amara Karan as Indira Mare, and Ayelet Zurer as Maite Voss