"Alien Nation" Returns to TV

"Alien Nation" Returns to TV

The SciFi Channel has announced, via Variety, that it's developing a new version of Alien Nation with Tim Minear (Angel, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Dollhouse). Dealing with 250,000 Tenctonese slaves that arrive on earth, and told through the eyes of human cop Matt Sikes and Newcomer officer San Francisco, Alien Nation explores the assimilation of one society into another and all of the challenges of that, all wrapped up in a police procedural.

By EdGross - Jul 01, 2009 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi


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    Offers Fox 21's Chris Carlisle, "It's absolutely perfect timing fo this type of show. They're [SciFi Channel] looking for more grounded sci-fi and close-ended episodes, and at the heart of Alien Nation it's a cop movie. It's grounded. And it has a tremendous amount of dramatic possibilities and humor." To which the network's Mark Stern adds, "It's very much in keeping with what we've been looking to do -- find themes that are more than just hard sci-fi, something that feels contemporary and relevant and invites a broad audience in."
   Notes Minear, "It's genre mixed with procedural mixed with funny and mixed with big, giant scary. I love serialized stuff, but this is also a cop franchise. That Starsky and Hutch/Lethal Weapon buddy cop comedy is absent from TV right now."
   For the complete article, please visit our Earths Mightiest Alien Nation site, by clicking HERE.

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 7/1/2009, 3:54 PM
Hey the first article worked 4 me??? : D
superdog
superdog - 7/1/2009, 4:14 PM
yeah leee777. we had a long discussion regarding that article....angel..buffy...and all kinds of other stuff. this sucks
EdGross
EdGross - 7/1/2009, 4:28 PM
I just got off the phone with Tim Minear re: Alien Nation. It's all in the early stages, but his plans sound interesting. I'll be posting an interview, probably tomorrow.
superdog
superdog - 7/1/2009, 4:34 PM
Sweet Ed. Looking forward to it
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 7/1/2009, 4:42 PM
Probably GRIF @ as V is coming out first lol! ; D

Cool ED!
TheMyth
TheMyth - 7/2/2009, 1:04 PM
This show was weird to me as I was only a kid when it was on tv. I remember they (the aliens) loved spoiled milk and the males bore the children.
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