'Resident Alien' Goes Simulcast To Maintain Syfy Presence After Move To USA; Premiere Date Set
It’s looking a little Chucky out here. New season premieres in June
Resident Alien is now a two-channel resident. While the Alan Tudyk-starring series is moving to USA Network for its fourth season, it’s also staying at Syfy after all for a simulcast arrangement that will begin when the season premieres Friday, June 6 at 11 PM Eastern/Pacific, 10 PM Central. Episodes will arrive on Peacock one week after airing. That’s the first time I’ve seen such a streaming plan.
The ten-episode season picks up with Harry and his baby Bridget stuck in prison on the Grey Moonbase, while a shapeshifter Alien called a Mantid has taken over his body on Earth and becomes the new masquerader of Harry Vanderspeigle, the doctor who Tudyk’s character killed and assumed the identity of at the start of the series. However, as the official description puts it “Harry manages to escape the Greys and arrives back on Earth for a showdown with the Mantid alien, but soon finds he may not have what he needs to finish the job. Asta and D’arcy struggle to keep a secret from Ben and Kate, who are both desperate to find answers to what has been happening to them. Sheriff Mike and Deputy Liv attempt to solve some mysterious deaths in Patience that Mike is beginning to think aren’t caused by anything human.
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The official trailer illustrates the circumstances quite well, the Mantid wasting no time with his disguise, as our more heroic and likable Harry grows his facial hair of despair while locked up. Harry reveals the Greys have implanted an inhibitor inside of him, which blocks his true alien form, throwing a wrench in his peculiar relationship with Blue Avian Heather. Why are both Harry and the Mantid in the same human form, unable to take their special effects-heavy alien forms? Well, dramatic budget cuts that came with the move.
In addition to Tudyk, Resident Alien stars Sara Tomko as Harry’s assistant Asta Twelvetrees, Alice Wetterlund as town pub owner D’arcy Bloom, Corey Reynolds as sheriff Mike Thompson, Elizabeth Bowen as Deputy LubBaker, Levi Fiehler as the town’s mayor Ben Hawthorne, and Meredith Garretson and Judah Prehn as his wife Kate and son Max, who saw through Harry’s human disguise first. Gary Farmer, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Jenna Lamia, Sarah Podemski, Linda Hamilton, Enver Gjokaj, Terry O’Quinn, and Edi Patterson return. New this season are fellow Firefly alum Jewel Staite as Jules Gardner, an FBI agent assigned to the Colorado Springs field office who also happened to go to high school with Asta, Liv, D’arcy and Ben and who arrives in town having been assigned a case involving a series of gruesome murders that have occurred in and around Patience, and King of the Hill, NewsRadio and Barry’s Stephen Root, Tudyk's Dodgeball co-star as Harry’s father who will “push Harry to go back to his evil alien roots”. He too will be in his human form.
Resident Alien was adapted to television by executive producer Chris Sheridan. Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Amblin TV, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Nastaran Dibai also executive produce. The series is produced UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Amblin TV and Dark Horse Entertainment, as it is an adaptation of a Dark Horse comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse. Its new airing arrangements resemble that of Chucky, which both networks shared for its entire three-season run. While this is USA’s first step to rebuilding its originals slate, Syfy keeps a veteran around for The Ark and SurrealEstate while adding Revival, which premieres on June 12.
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