The Aliens (TV series)
| The Aliens | |
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| Genre |
Science fiction Comedy Drama |
| Created by | Fintan Ryan |
| Directed by | Jonathan van Tulleken Lawrence Gough |
| Starring |
Michael Socha Michaela Coel Michael Smiley Jim Howick Holli Dempsey |
| Opening theme | "Alive & Amplified" by The Mooney Suzuki |
| Composer(s) | Vince Pope |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Petra Fried Matt Jarvis Murray Ferguson |
| Producer(s) | Charlie Leech |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Clerkenwell Films |
| Release | |
| Original network | E4 |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | 5.1 Surround Sound |
| Original release | 8 March – 12 April 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Aliens is a British science fiction television series created by Fintan Ryan. It is set 40 years after aliens land in the Irish Sea and are reluctantly integrated into British society in the fictional city of Troy. Border guard Lewis Garvey, played by Michael Socha, is caught up in the criminal underbelly of Troy as he learns he is himself half-alien.
The six-episode series also stars Michaela Coel, Michael Smiley and Jim Howick, and is produced by Clerkenwell Films for E4. The first episode was released on 8 March 2016. Ryan had previously written BBC shows Never Better and In the Flesh.
Coel told Radio Times that The Aliens addresses "urgent contemporary concerns" not limited to racism; during the filming of the series at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Bulgaria, she reported she experienced racist attacks. Speaking to The Guardian's Gabriel Tate, Ryan acknowledged links with the show's narrative and the ongoing European migrant crisis: "With immigrants, there’s a colonial history that leaves you in debt to them. Here, we don’t owe them [the aliens] anything, but they’ve landed on our planet and we’ve got to do something with them."
Viral marketing for The Aliens was organised by Channel 4's in-house creative agency 4Creative. Centred on the slogan "Fight Human Oppression", the faux-political campaign interrupted several Channel 4 shows throughout February 2016. It also appeared on radio and cinema, interrupting DCM's usual ident. Shots featured a female member of the "Alien League" asking the viewer for help "fighting human oppression", before being wrestled away.
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