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ANGEL’s Tim Minear Prepares Potential New 20-Years-Later ALIEN NATION Series For SyFy!!
I am – Hercules!!
Writer-producer-director Tim Minear, a veteran of sci-fi shows (“Firefly,” “Dollhouse”) and cop shows (“The Inside”) and sci-fi cop shows (“The X-Files”), is gearing up a new version of the sci-fi cop show “Alien Nation” for SyFy (formerly the SciFi Channel).
Unlike the movie and prior TV series, set three years after the extraterrestrial “newcomers” arrived on Earth, Minear’s proposed series will be set about 20 years after the aliens touched down.
From Wednesday morning’s Variety:
By the time the show begins, some time in the 2020s, the alien population has multiplied from a few thousand to 3.5 million. And much of the "newcomers" live their own segregated existence, in what Minear compares to the North African ghettos in France.
The lesson here apparently is newcomers breed like tribbles.
Minear tells AICN the new project “might” feature an alien cop named Sam Francisco, as the movie and prior series did.
Find Variety’s story on the matter here.

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Reader Talkback
Weird. by GiveMeAnFinBreak | Jun 30th, 2009 11:14:29 PM | Ugh. "Syfy" by Iron-kong | Jun 30th, 2009 11:25:18 PM | Remaking V is enough. We don't
need this too. by ShabbyBlue | Jun 30th, 2009 11:38:31 PM | District 9 Will be better than
this by Monkey Butler | Jun 30th, 2009 11:41:17 PM | THIS SOUNDS PROMISING by Mullah Omar | Jun 30th, 2009 11:41:25 PM | I liked the series by Nasty In The Pasty | Jun 30th, 2009 11:41:27 PM | The original show got FIVE tv
movie follow-ups by ShabbyBlue | Jun 30th, 2009 11:57:40 PM | if anyone can do it, Minear
can by oisin5199 | Jul 1st, 2009 12:04:03 AM | Well, at least it's not on FOX by DeadlyPorpoise | Jul 1st, 2009 12:10:32 AM | eh, sure, why not by WickedJacob | Jul 1st, 2009 12:24:56 AM | i'm guessing the success of
"true blood" ... by Toe Jam | Jul 1st, 2009 12:30:52 AM | Loved the series. Why not a
loose continuation? by JediRob | Jul 1st, 2009 12:31:13 AM | Hollywood is seriously trying
to harsh my mellow by Greggers | Jul 1st, 2009 12:49:02 AM | Uck Quantum Leap remake is
probably next, sci-fi already
trashe by iownyou | Jul 1st, 2009 01:26:43 AM | District 9 is a complete
rip-off of this...F that movie by Ash Talon | Jul 1st, 2009 01:30:21 AM | Wow... by codymr | Jul 1st, 2009 01:34:08 AM | Just continue it. by Baked | Jul 1st, 2009 01:36:50 AM | Using the aliens as stand-ins
for Muslims? by photoboy | Jul 1st, 2009 02:17:00 AM | If I'm recalling correctly
from the series by Dingbatty | Jul 1st, 2009 02:33:14 AM | 13 Eps of The Inside make him
a "veteran" of cop shows? by crayotic | Jul 1st, 2009 04:08:30 AM | Speaking of Minear by The McPoyle Clan | Jul 1st, 2009 04:52:54 AM | Emily Francisco grew up into a
hottie. by V'Shael | Jul 1st, 2009 05:12:46 AM | Minear craves spoiled milk by ls420 | Jul 1st, 2009 05:41:26 AM | Maybe with Tim's Influence... by puto tenax | Jul 1st, 2009 06:31:07 AM | So a combination of an Alien
Nation retread by Fa_Tass_DinoMolester | Jul 1st, 2009 09:06:24 AM | Is George the spokesman for
Shredded Wheat?? by Billyeveryteen | Jul 1st, 2009 10:16:59 AM | Keep them away from the sour
milk!! by Banditmania | Jul 1st, 2009 10:56:47 AM | Kenneth Johnson... by Henry Fool | Jul 1st, 2009 11:26:48 AM | Not really a surprise... by dogrobber | Jul 1st, 2009 11:39:18 AM | What's next? Lucan? Manimal?
Jason of Star Command? by Uncle Stan | Jul 1st, 2009 11:48:19 AM | "I'm burnt out on mirrors
being held up to society and
the human by oisin5199 | Jul 1st, 2009 12:20:56 PM | Thank God by Flyingcircus | Jul 1st, 2009 12:29:06 PM | It just occurred to me by Flyingcircus | Jul 1st, 2009 12:30:07 PM | Next up: Knight Rider! Oh,
wait... by MrMysteryGuest | Jul 1st, 2009 01:40:26 PM | How about Sam Diego? by DeCypher44 | Jul 1st, 2009 02:02:49 PM | where is my SOMETHING IS OUT
THERE remake!?!? by KentButabi | Jul 1st, 2009 02:17:13 PM | Det. Chevy Chase Marylin by KentButabi | Jul 1st, 2009 02:20:21 PM | sounds like somebody saw the
district 9 trailer by thedude2010 | Jul 1st, 2009 02:21:07 PM | oisin5199 by Greggers | Jul 1st, 2009 03:23:12 PM | The hammiest line in tv
history by ides | Jul 1st, 2009 03:39:07 PM | I can't get into aliens with
weird heads by felwithe | Jul 1st, 2009 04:34:00 PM | thank god it's not on fox by johnnysunshine | Jul 1st, 2009 04:51:33 PM | FUCK YEAH!!! by Hint_of_Smegma | Jul 1st, 2009 05:18:02 PM | Alien Nation is Canada! by Naughty | Jul 1st, 2009 06:14:53 PM | I wasn't really into the
original by _Maltheus_ | Jul 1st, 2009 08:24:18 PM | They live is one thing i
think would rule as a series. by notspock2 | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:36:28 AM | Just have James Caan shoot
everything in sight by twogunjames | Jul 2nd, 2009 01:48:03 PM | How did I miss this posting? by Shut the Fuck up Donny | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:30:31 PM | The Original kind of bored me by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:50:39 PM | Man, it must suck... by TommyGavinsEgo | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:39:34 PM | They Live: The Series! by TommyGavinsEgo | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:41:16 PM | If its on The Syphilis Channel
it will suck. by Fareal | Jul 2nd, 2009 08:08:23 PM | Sorry, but I've completely
lost confidence in Minear. by CatVutt | Jul 2nd, 2009 10:29:37 PM | Alien Nation one of my
all-time favorite shows by symphy | Jul 3rd, 2009 01:39:59 PM |
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