Aliens have been among us since they crash-landed in the UK 40 years ago. Though they look and behave exactly like us, they are forced to live a segregated life, behind a huge wall in a ghetto called Troy. It’s a hedonistic and ramshackle town, unpoliced and filled with gangs who make a living smuggling alien hair out of Troy to be smoked as a drug by humans.
Lewis (Michael Socha) is a border guard who mans the checkpoint between Troy and the human side of the wall. In common with most humans, he regards the aliens who pass through the checkpoint to do menial jobs on the human side of town as second class citizens. But when he discovers that he is the world’s first half-alien, he finds himself drawn into a world of divided loyalties and a search for his own identity.
Michael Socha (This is England, Being Human) stars as the mild-mannered Lewis whose world is turned upside down when he discovers the criminal underbelly of Troy as he searches for answers to who he really is.
Michaela Coel (Top Boy, Chewing Gum) is Lilyhot, an enigmatic and alluring alien who is deeply embroiled in one of Troy’s criminal gangs. When Lewis crosses her path, her fate and his become inextricably entwined.
Joining them are Michael Smiley (Black Mirror, Kill List), Ashley Walters (Top Boy, Hustle), Holli Dempsey (Derek, New Worlds) and Trystan Gravelle (Mr Selfridge, Anonymous).
Wry, violent, funny and visually arresting, Aliens (w/t) (6 x 60’) is written by Fintan Ryan (Never Better, In the Flesh) and produced by Clerkenwell Films (Misfits, Scrotal Recall, Not Safe For Work). Episodes 1-3 will be directed by Jonathan van Tulleken (Top Boy, Misfits) and Lawrence Gough (Atlantis, Misfits) will direct episodes 4-6.
Starts Tues 8th March 9pm, E4
The Aliens
