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Day of the Doctor director Nick Hurran will be helming Syfy’s new six hour miniseries written by Life on Mars’ Matthew Graham based on Arthur C. Clarke’s classic SF novel Childhood’s End.

Dave Howe, President, Syfy, explained: “As we aggressively develop scripted programming over a diverse creative landscape, we want our content to reflect the greatest sci-fi stories from the past and the present. The powerful themes of Childhood’s End, from the fearsome price of peace and prosperity, to the very question of what constitutes a human being, remain fascinating and timeless.  This will be the most ambitious project for Syfy in many years.”

First published in 1953, Childhood’s End follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

Hurran will be working with his Sherlock colleagues Director of Photography Neville Kidd and Editor Yan Miles, both of whom received Emmy Awards for their work on the detective series. Akiva Goldsman and Mike de Luca will be executive producers.