As AMC’s new Walking Dead spin-off series continues to amass its core cast, Joe Holt has joined the show.

Via Deadline, Holt – best known to genre fans for his role in Marvel’s The Punisher – will be playing a character called Leo Bennett. That character is pegged as a family man and professor who is brimming with optimism and hope.

Holt joins a cast that currently features Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, Hal Cumpston, Aliyah Royale, Annet Mahendru and Nico Tortorella.

The early word on this second spin-off series from the main The Walking Dead reads:

The series is said to feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.

To consist of a ten-episode debut season, this to-be-titled show will premiere towards the middle of next year.

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