NEW YORK (WABC) -- More than 40 years after the first "Alien" movie hit theaters, the xenomorph is back, this time to terrorize audiences at home. The new FX series "Alien Earth" is the first television show from a franchise that features nine movies.

After years of waiting and build-up, “Fargo” creator Noah Hawley’s ambitious new entry in the “Alien” franchise, FX’s “Alien: Earth,” has finally arrived. The series, which is set in the same universe as the other “Alien” films, drops ...

2012's Prometheus is one of the most controversial sci-fi outings of the 21st century, but it is an essential piece of the Alien franchise today.

There's nothing in Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien to suggest the beginning of a sprawling intergalactic saga, but the Alien franchise has proven surprisingly consistent and rewarding over the past several decades. Never before has it been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alien — the creature and the franchise — is a shape-shifter. In the interplanetary dystopia of the Alien movies, the parasitic creature that parasitic CEOs are always trying to ...

Nobody pleaded that "Fargo," that 1996 cinematic gem from Joel and Ethan Coen, should be made into a TV series. And yet writer and director Noah Hawley has (so far) delivered five seasons and an award-winning hit, against steep odds. Now, Hawley is looking ...

Sigourney Weaver, who famously stars as Ellen Ripley in the iconic sci-fi “Alien” franchise, applauded FX’s series “Alien: Earth” as a “beautifully done” prequel. “I can’t believe it’s television, frankly,” Weaver told Collider in an ...

Alien: Earth season 2 may not have been officially announced, but Hawley has expressed his hopes that the series will continue, especially after the open-ended conclusion of season 1. Many questions have been left unanswered, and these mysteries deserve to ...

(CNN) — In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos horror story “Alien” may have kicked ...