Thunderbirds TV Series Casting

Weta Workshop's Thunderbirds Are Go TV series is slated for a 2015 airing and has begun casting for the various voices for this CG and live action TV series.

Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) will voice brothers Scott and Alan Tracy.

Kayvan Novak (Skins) will play Brains

Andres Williams (M.I. High) will be the villain The Hood.

Angel Coulby (Merlin) will be a new character, Kayo.

David Menkin (Bob the Builder) plays Virgil Tracy

Thomas Brody Sangster (Game of Thrones, Phineas and Ferb)  plays John and Gordon Tracy

Adjoa Andoh (Doctor Who - Francine Jones) plays Colonel Casey (new character)

Sandra Dickinson (Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) will be Grandma Tracy

Rosamund Pike (The World's End, Die Another Day) will play Lady Penelope

David Graham (Doctor Who - Dalek Voice, Fireball Xl5) will reprise his part as Parker which he played in the original 1966 TV Gerry Anderson TV series.

Thunderbirds Are Go - New Series

ITV Studios is teaming up with Pukeko Pictures to make a brand new Thunderbirds TV series.  They are bringing on board WETA Workshop (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar) to re-imagine the series.  The plan is to shoot with CG and models. Rib Hoegee (Team Titans, Ben 10) will be the head writer.

The series will be 26 half hour episodes and is scheduled to air in 2015, 50 years after the original Thunderbirds debut.