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E4 has commissioned a six-part original comedy drama Aliens, from Clerkenwell Studios, the makers of Misfits.

Written by Fintan Ryan (Never Better, In The Flesh), the series will begin filming later this year. According to the official description, “The aliens are here. In fact, they’ve been here for the last 40 years. But though they walk like us, talk like us and look like us, they’re not allowed to live with us. All aliens are forced to live behind a huge wall in a in a segregated community called Troy; a ramshackle and hedonistic ghetto where a criminal sub-culture thrives. It’s a world of mystery, danger and forbidden pleasures. But when mild-mannered human Lewis, a border control guard at the wall’s check-point, discovers that he is half-alien, his secret threatens to turn his world upside down as he is drawn into the dark underbelly of Troy.”

Roberto Troni, commissioner at Channel 4, commented: “Scabrously funny, shockingly violent and at times positively hallucinogenic, Aliens is a wry and riotous adventure into a world that is at once entirely familiar and absolutely strange. It’s a culture clash, a gangster epic, but fundamentally it is an all too human search for acceptance and identity.”

Executive Producer at Clerkenwell Films Petra Fried added : “In Aliens, Fintan Ryan has created a world that mixes social commentary, crime genre and comedy in a new and exciting way.”

According to Fintan Ryan, “Clerkenwell is the only company capable of making this show, E4 is the only place they’d let us make it. This is going to be good.”