It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as an alien arrival on Earth ...

Alien: Earth will premiere on the cable channel FX at 8 p.m. ET/PT on August 12. It'll also stream on Hulu (for U.S. subscribers) and Disney+ (for those outside the U.S.) at 8 p.m. ET on August 12.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. First of all, no, Alien: Earth is not a nature documentary.

From the creators of Long War, Terra Invicta bridges the gap between civilization on Earth and the vast interstellar empires of other space strategy games. An extraterrestrial probe is detected ...