Last Updated on May 15, 2025 by Angel Melanson

Noah Hawley's upcoming Alien: Earth has set a release date, with the FX series debuting on Hulu in August.

Per Deadline, the 8-episode season will premiere with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and the FX linear channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S., and via Disney+ internationally. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays on Hulu beginning at 8 p.m. ET and FX at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Today also brings a new look at stars Timothy Olyphant (playing a synthetic humanoid named Kirsh), Sydney Chandler as Wendy, a “hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult,” Essie Davis (TheBabadook) and Alex Lawther (Black Mirror) among others.

A new logline for Alien: Earth, which is set two years before Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, reads as follows:

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).
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The first hybrid prototype, named Wendy (Chandler), marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides with Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

Also starring in the sci-fi horror series are Babou Ceesay (Guerrilla), Jonathan Ajayi (Wonder Woman 1984), Erana James (Uproar), Lily Newmark (Sex Education), Diêm Camille (Washington Black), Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones), David Rysdahl (Fargo), Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), Sandra Yi Sencindiver (Foundation) and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral).

And starring over on the monster side of things? The Xenomorphs are this time joined by five new monsters, blessing us all with a ton of new nightmares.

Check out some new stills of Alien: Earth below via FX and mark your calendars for August 12.