SYFY Calls the Alan Tudyk-Led Series One of The Biggest Cable Success Stories of the Year
Syfy’s comedy drama Resident Alien has been renewed for Season 2.
The announcement came from Lisa Katz, President of Scripted Content at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, today.
“With Resident Alien, everything just came together in perfect harmony – a script by Chris Sheridan that leapt off the page, a lead performance by Alan Tudyk, whose nuance between comedy and menace was pitch perfect, and a team of producers, cast and crew who were all striving to do something great,” Katz said. “The appeal of this show transcended the sci-fi genre in a way that enabled us to bring in a broader audience, and as the series continues we hope to encourage more and more fans to discover Harry’s very particular perspective on humans.”
The series is based on Peter Hogan and Stephen Parkhouse’s Dark Horse comic of the same name, and follows an alien (Alan Tudyk) who finds himself stranded on Earth after his spaceship crashes in the deep snow of the Colorado Rockies.
As the alien works to retrieve his broken vessel, he is forced to pass himself off as Harry Vanderspeigle, a small-town human doctor, all the while biding his time until he can carry out his true mission: killing all humans on the planet.
However, although Harry starts off living a simple life things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does so, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”
The series also stars Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund and Levi Fiehler.
In its first season, Resident Alien is the most-watched new cable drama in the last year in total viewers and #2 in the 18-49 demo. It’s also SYFY’s highest-rated new drama in more than six years in total viewers and earns the second-biggest time-shifting gain for any cable drama in the last year in total viewers.
The 10-episode first season of Resident Alien will wrap on Wednesday, March 31.
Meanwhile, the show continues to air new episodes Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SYFY.
The first three episodes of Resident Alien are now available on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, enabling audiences to catch up on season one before the show returns for season two.
Following the initial three episodes, a new episode will drop on Peacock every Friday until the complete season is available on the platform.
