"Alien: Earth" is a new TV prequel to the "Alien" franchise. It starts when a spaceship crashes on Earth with a xenomorph on board.

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, and Timothy Olyphant. The vast ensemble cast includes Moe Bar-El, Kit Young, Erana James, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille, Babou Ceesay, and David Rysdahl.

A new teaser that FX dropped for Alien: Earth shows planet Earth will serve as the show’s setting. In the teaser, a Xenomorph heads toward Earth in a ship that is hurtling rapidly through space and is about to crash into the planet.