FX just gave a big TV show update for Noah Hawley’s prequel Alien series and Shōgun’s future on Hulu

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FX is on a roll right now: filming has just wrapped on its rather excitingAlienseries, andShōgunseason twois ready to begin. While the subject matter is somewhat different – there aren’t many face-huggers or chest-bursters inShōgun– they’re both high-quality shows that are causing some excitement.

TheAlienprequel show has now been given an official title too,Alien: Earth, after being moved from production into the visual effects stage. That’s according to showrunner Noah Hawley, who toldVarietythat “it’s a very big show”. And while only one season has been produced so far, everyone is “pretty bullish” about the prospect of more. Network boss John Langraf says that the assumption is thatAlien: Earth"is a returning television series" and that he wants Hawley to write two seasons before returning to his other big show,Fargo.

Alien Earthis a prequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott classic,Alien, and should debut later this year alongside the next film in the franchise,Alien: Romulus.

What’s happening with Shōgun season 2?

Shōgunis the top nominee in this year’s Emmys, with a massive 25 nominations compared to 23 forThe Bear –both of which feature high up in ourbest Hulu showsandbest Disney Plus showslists. John Landgraf told Variety that he’d just congratulated the show’s showrunner and writer – Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo –, when they had “just stepped out of the writers room and are happily at work”.

According to Landgraf, “we’re hoping to be in production relatively early next year” –but that doesn’t mean season two will air any time soon. “It’s a long production period, he explains. I think between principal and second unit days of photography, that show shot between 180 and 190 days or more, could have been close to 200.”

It’ll be fascinating to see how the second season continues. As we wrote when the second and third seasons were confirmed, the first season of the show exhausted its source material. “The big question, then, is how Marks, Kondo, and the rest of the show’s writers – in conjunction with the Estate of James Clavell – will tackle a sequel season that not only tells a compelling follow-up to season one’s events, but also recaptures the brutal allure and political intrigue of this engrossing time period without any source material to fall back on.” We’ll find out in 2025.

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