‘Resident Alien’ Season 3 Cut To 8 Episodes

Resident Alien is getting a shorter third season. The show’s third season was announced in July, ahead of the premiere of the second half of the show’s second season.

Deadline reports that the Syfy original’s season has been cut from 12 episodes to eight. The first season of the series was ten episodes, and the second was 16 episodes split into two half seasons of eight episodes each. This makes the upcoming third season the shortest of the show’s run.

The show is based on a comic book of the same name from Dark Horse Comics. The dark comedy stars Alan Tudyk as a crash-landed alien on a mission to exterminate the human race. The show also stars Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Judah Prehn and Elizabeth Bowen.

The flagship show has done well for Syfy perviously. The first half of the second season ranked in 2022’s 15 most-watched cable series and top 5 most-watched cable dramas. However, the numbers for the show dropped in the second half of the season. The second season also scored nominations for Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards and the Saturn Awards.

TV seasons and season orders have been getting shorter. The 22-episode season is far less standard than it once was. With Resident Alien’s viewership numbers falling over the second season, it isn’t surprising that the season was cut shorter. Other networks have recently chosen not to expand seasons of their original content. The CW recently announced that their shows Walker: Independence and The Winchesters would only be getting 13 episodes for their first season amid cutbacks at the network.