The Woods (TV series)

The Woods is an American science fiction teen drama television series. The series, adapted from the comic of the same name created by and Michael Dialynas and published by, focuses on a group of students, faculty, and staff from a  preparatory school who vanish from Earth and reappear on the forested moon of a planet in another star system. The series premiered in the US on Hallmark Kids & Family on September 6, 2019 and is distributed as a Original outside the US.

The series stars Craig Heyns, Vanessa Tiffen, Alexander Rizzi, Melissa Sorimachi, Isabel Ocampo, Jean-Martin Cuvier, Jermaine Daye and Leo Chokshi.

Primary

 * Craig Heyns as Isaac Andrews
 * Vanessa Tiffen as Karen Jacobs
 * Alexander Rizzi as Calder McCready
 * Melissa Sorimachi as Sanami Ota
 * Isabel Ocampo as Maria Ramirez
 * Jean-Martin Cuvier as Adrian Roth
 * Jermaine Daye as Benjamin Store
 * Leo Chokshi as Sander Kendrick

Filming
The scenes set in, were filmed in  and. Scenes on the alien planet were filmed in and on soundstages at  in  outside Atlanta. The decision to film the Milwaukee scenes primarily in the Atlanta area was met with some criticism from those in Milwaukee's local film industry, though co-developer Dan Billberg defended the move, claiming that Milwaukee did not have the proper production infrastructure to host any filming for the series.