Long in gestation, FX have revealed the start date for Alien: Earth, their series set in the Alien universe.
Alien: Earth begins with a double-episode drop on August 12th, 2025 at 8 pm ET. That translates to 1 am on Thursday, August 13th in the UK, where the show will appear on Disney+.
The subsequent six instalments of the eight-episode run then follow weekly.
The confirmation of the show’s dates also comes with the fullest series synopsis we’ve seen yet. It reads:
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s “Alien: Earth.”
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
This puts flesh on the bones of writer Noah Hawley’s previous comments about a battle for humanity’s future as different technologies come into play.
Joining Sydney Chandler, the cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther , Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.
Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. The show comes from FX Productions.