The first proper promo photo of Joseph as Major Ross has been shared on the BBC Banished website, along with a new clip, which features Joseph.

Major Robert Ross Ross is a career military man. He feels he could run things in a much more effective way than Philip, if he were in charge of the colony and if this were treated more as a prison than the start of a community. His priority is his men; they have signed up for a certain amount of time and he will get them home alive. He resents the sharing of meagre resources between convicts and soldiers, whether it's food or women. He starts a relationship with Kitty, initially for sex, but he gradually falls in love with her, counter to everything he believes about convicts.

Two reviews have appeared online for the new series of Banished which begins on Thursday 5th March on BBC 2.

Filmed on location outside Sydney, the beautiful scenery belies a life of dirt, sweat and desperation. However it's not just the unforgiving landscape that conspires against them; tensions run high between the inhabitants confined to this remote outpost. Marston (Rory McCann of Game of Thrones fame) is a brutish bullying blacksmith while callous Major Ross (Joseph Millson) seems to take sadistic pleasure in punishing his charges. The prisoners are very much portrayed as the heroes and while Banished does plunder a few well-worn tropes (the tart with a heart, the code of silence) it's an absorbing tale of survival, mainly due to the quality cast. List.co.uk

The BBC has shared a longer launch trailer for Banished on the official website, and You Tube which includes a glimpse of Joseph as Major Ross. The same trailer has been broadcast on the BBC channels. Sarah-Jane Potts has continued to share behind the scenes photos of Joseph from filming Banished, on Twitter. 

Details about filming Banished in Australia last year have been shared on The Location Guide. Read it in full on the website. This behind the scenes photo was shared by Joseph on Instagram. 

“Banished is fictional and doesn’t depict actual events,” explains Simon Hailey, a co-producer on the shoot with RSJ Films. “However, historically, the First Fleet settled in Sydney Cove, which is now Circular Quay, so Sydney always seemed to be the natural spiritual home for the location shoot. Plus our co-production partners, See-Saw Films, are based in Sydney and the local crew is fantastically talented and professional.”

The BBC Media Centre has confirmed details of the broadcast time for Banished.

Confirmed for BBC Two on 5 March at 9pm to 10pm

New South Wales, 1788. Dawn is breaking over a ramshackle camp where the British convicts transported on the First Fleet are waking up to another sweltering hot day alongside their Royal Navy marine guards and their masters. In this fledgling penal colony anything can happen - and death stalks everybody.

Convict Elizabeth Quinn awakes screaming from a nightmare. She must get out of her beloved Tommy Barrett's bunk and the convict men's dorm fast, both are prohibited and punishable.