Lee Ross has been cast as Boatswain in Episode 3, written by Steve Thompson (Sherlock), Doctor Who Spoilers have discovered. Ross played alcoholic wife beater Owen Turner in the BBC One soap between 2006-2009 and also played Gene Hunt’s rival, DCI Derek Litton, in both Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes.
Danny Sapani, who played doomed probabtion officer Tony Morecombe in Episode 1 of Misfits, has been cast as Colonel Manton in Episode 7, titled ‘Demons Run’.