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Returning: Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels returns for the first half of its fifth and final season in August.

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Hell on Wheels, starring Anson Mount, is returning for the first half of its fifth and final season in August.

Seven new episodes will air on FX with the final seven episodes to air in 2016.

Season 5 adds four new series regulars: Tim Guinee (as Collis Huntington), Reg Rogers, Byron Mann, and Tzi Ma.

Hell on Wheels looks at the institutionalised greed and corruption behind the building of the Transcontinental Railroad as the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific intensifies. In Season 5, Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), finds himself a stranger in a strange land: Truckee, California. Home to the headquarters of the Central Pacific railroad, this rough mountain railroad town swarms with thousands of Chinese workers who are foreign in language, culture and traditions. While grappling with the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Central Pacific’s herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete America’s first Transcontinental Railroad.

In addition to Mount, Hell on Wheels also stars Colm Meaney as Thomas Durant, Christopher Heyerdahl as The Swede, Robin McLeavy as Eva, Jennifer Ferrin as Louise Ellison, Phil Burke as Mickey McGinness, and Dohn Norwood as Psalms.

Wednesday 19 August at 8.30pm on FX.

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