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Alien: Earth might never have seen the light of day if it wasn't for Disney+ and streaming services

The cast of Alien: Earth talk to T3 about the importance of streaming services

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Face huggers, conjoined flesh, and farewell exhibitions: This week's highlights include 'Alien: Earth', 'Together' and an exhibition honouring the late, great Ozzy Osbourne.

Euronews

Alien: Earth star Sydney Chandler on following in Sigourney Weaver's footsteps as the franchise's new figurehead "I held on to the strength that her character gave to me when I was younger"

Exclusive | Alien: Earth star Sydney Chandler has big Xeno Stompers to fill

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Alien: Earth won't fully treat events from the Alien prequel movies as canon, producer says: 'we benefitted from its originality and freshness'

One of Alien: Earth's producers has tried to address fan concerns over the sci-fi horror franchise's lore.

TechRadar

‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis

The Babadook and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries star plays a corporate scientist pushing the limits of human survival in the new series Alien: Earth

The Guardian - AU

'Alien: Earth' creators Noah Hawley and David W. Zucker want to 'mimic the feeling of discovery' you felt when watching the original (exclusive)

Ahead of Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere, we talked to series creator Noah Hawley and executive producer David W. Zucker.

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Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley hopes the show’s new earth-bound backstory is adopted by other Alien projects going forward: "There's a surprising paucity of mythology in the seven films"

Exclusive | Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley thinks his show's new mythology should be canon in future movies

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Alien: Earth introduces new creatures as terrifying as the Xenomorph, but the show's creator didn't want to squeeze in 'a vending machine of alien life' for the sake of it

Noah Hawley teases what we can expect from Alien: Earth's horrifying group of creatures – and why there are only five of them.

TechRadar

Alien: Earth star Timothy Olyphant only needed to do one thing to get into character for the sci-fi horror show on Disney+: 'It does a lot of the work for me'

Timothy Olyphant explains how his Alien: Earth character Kirsh is different from synthetics we've seen so far in the Alien franchise.

TechRadar

Is Alien: Earth's scheming tech bro inspired by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Mark Zuckerburg? One of the Disney+ show's stars has his say on the matter

One Alien: Earth star says he didn't imitate any real-world tech bros to portray one of the series' shiftiest characters.

TechRadar

No One Can Hear Alien: Earth Reviews In Space, But Critics Have Plenty To Say Online About It

The sci-fi series is coming soon.

Cinemablend

Alien: Earth review: 'instant TV classic splices body horror with AI angst'

5/5 This new series on Disney is a prequel to the original Ridley Scott film that both echoes its brilliance and takes the Alien franchise into new territory to tackle contemporary tech angst

Evening Standard

'Alien: Earth Review: The Sci-Fi Spinoff Fails To Capture A Modern TV Reboot Formula

Noah Hawley's 'Alien' prequel reveals the limits of the TV spinoff formula he perfected with 'Fargo' and 'Legion.'

Inverse

I watched the first six episodes of Alien: Earth, and it's the Peter Pan-inspired sci-fi horror show I didn't know I needed on Disney+

The Alien franchise's first TV series puts a curious but confident Jurassic Park-style spin on its established formula.

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Alien: Earth review: "Arguably the franchise's strongest outing since James Cameron's Aliens"

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'Alien: Earth' is an intelligent and thought-provoking bloodbath, and everything we ever wanted from an 'Alien' show (review)

Noah Hawley's daring exploration of the Alien universe makes for a great sci-fi TV show that asks big questions without neglecting the fun factor.

Evening Standard

Sydney Chandler describes experience on the Alien: Earth TV series as ‘a joy’

The new TV series is based on the acclaimed Alien franchise.

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TV Spy — Alien: Earth, Fire Country, and all the US dramas you can watch on UK services: August 9-15

Here are some of the best US dramas you can watch in the UK this week.

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'Predator: Badlands' looks like it's taking inspiration from an unlikely ancestor — a divisive 20-year-old video game

A brutal alien planet isn't quite the same as future Earth, but Predator: Concrete Jungle has more than a few things in common with Predator: Badlands.

Cinemablend

Alien Easter Eggs Are All Over The Predator: Badlands Trailers, So I Had To Ask The Director About The Universes Colliding Again

There's "potential" here!

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV

The writer-director defied expectations to turn the film Fargo into one of the best TV shows of the decade. Now he’s taking on an even bigger franchise. Can lightning strike twice?

Total Film

Predator: Badlands director tried to make sure the movie's Alien references were added "elegantly": "There's a seduction to grab all the action figures and smush them together"

Dan Trachtenberg thinks it'd be "cool" to be the "Alien vs. Predator guy"

Total Film

Alien: Earth is full of new creatures because it was the only way to add a sense of the unknown back into the series “You can get back to that feeling of genetic revulsion that we all felt watching Alien for the first time”

Xeno-evil, speak no evil

Total Film

Alien: Earth is reportedly hoped to be the next Game of Thrones or The Last of Us-scale event show, and may have cost more than $250m to make

FX is positioning Alien: Earth as the next great genre show

Inverse

The Most Iconic Sci-Fi Thriller Franchise Is Creating Some Tricky Canon

With 'Alien: Earth' set to exist "in parallel" with the movies, what does that mean for the franchise canon?

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