Alien: Earth is the best new sci-fi show on TV right now, and fans of the series may have found their Andor equivalent.

The 'Fargo' creator returns to FX with a haunting take on the classic science fiction franchise, with brand new creatures along for the ride.

In the summer of 1979, a just-turned-12 Noah Hawley fancied the idea of seeing Ridley Scott’s new film Alien at his local movie theatre in New York. His parents took him to see Alan Arkin and Peter Falk’s unpredictable comedy The In-Laws instead.

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

The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the "Alien"​ franchise ​for something rangier and looser.

Creator Noah Hawley talks about his new show, Alien: Earth, and the creatures bringing primal fear to the small screen. Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

There have been a lot of “Alien” movies over the decades, many of which selectively try to erase parts of each other’s lore. Hawley explained that the only two films his show acknowledges as canon are “Alien” and “Aliens,” and he’s not racing to make direct connections with either of them.

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Because fans of the 1979 film have already “discovered” the creature Scott introduced, Hawley had to find other lures. “When we put the monsters in, that’s the money-back

From invasive eyes to a redesigned xenomorph, director Noah Hawley breaks down how the grotesque creatures of Alien: Earth were made.