Sci Fi Channel, which on July 6 will relaunch as SyFy, is developing a new take on the 1988 movie
Alien Nation.
Tim Minear (
Angel,
Firefly) will pen the series.
Previously adapted in 1989 as a
short-lived Fox series (succeeded by five TV-movies),
Alien Nation follows a human cop and his alien detective partner, against the backdrop of Earth's begrudging assimilation of ETs banished from their home world, where they served as slaves. The