Stranger Things 3 begins production in April and there are three new roles the series is looking to fill.

We know there will be a bit of a wait for new episodes of Stranger Things, but that just gives us plenty of time to speculate about the upcoming season and what could be in store for our favorite people from Hawkins, Indiana. With production beginning in April, there are still a few casting announcements that need to be made. Who will be this season’s Barb or Bob Newby and capture the hearts of Stranger Things fans?

The names of the actors aren’t yet revealed, but we do have some information to relay about some new characters joining Stranger Things for season 3.

According to That Hashtag Show, at least three new characters will be joining the series and we can pass along their character descriptions and names now.

Bruce – A sexist, overweight and dirty news reporter in his 50s.

Mayor Larry Kline – Self-serving politician with the classic 80s schtick. He’s described as a man in his 40s-60s.

Patricia Brown – A woman in her 70s who tends to her garden and dishes out advice to the kids in the neighborhood

It remains to be seen how prominent these characters will be in the new season. I tend to think they’ll be more guest stars and peripheral characters than the next Bob Newby. But that could change depending on who is cast. It happens all the time where writers have a plan for a character and have to change that entirely once they discover the actor playing that role. For example, Jesse Pinkman was supposed to die on Breaking Bad in season 1 but Aaron Paul was just so great in the role that he became an Emmy-winning mainstay.

Basically, this establishes a few new characters but we have a lot left to learn about how they fit in this universe and how they’ll interact with our returning cast members.

The presence of a politician is an interesting one because we could get into some dirty political dealings and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chief Hopper find himself in the thick of this one way or the other. I envision a political scandal stemming from the activity that went on at Hawkins Lab in the first two seasons. How much did Mayor Kline know about the experiments going on there? We could be getting to the bottom of the kidnapping and the testing they performed on Eleven and others.

And there will be more than these three characters joining the show and we expect to have those details in the coming weeks as we get closer to the start of production. I’d think of these three as minor players with some big announcements coming soon. Then, we’ll have the formal announcements once the roles have been cast and we can really have some fun.