Alien: Earth viewership surged with a strong debut, highlighting the series’ impact within the franchise. The premiere episode attracted millions of viewers across multiple platforms in under a week.

This highly anticipated sci-fi series from FX and Hulu premieres with an impressive 9.2 million global views and a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Earth” reached 9.2 million views worldwide through its first six days of streaming. That total, calculated by dividing the total amount of time streamed by the runtime of the episode, refers to viewership on Hulu and Disney+ alone;

The series by creator Noah Hawley is described as a spin-off to the original Ridley Scott-directed film, " Alien ," from 1979. The film follows a space crew aboard the starship, Nostromo, who are on their journey back home when they receive a distress call from an alien vessel.

Alien: Earth seems to have hit the ground running with the premiere episode raking in 9.2M views globally across FX, Hulu and Disney+ in its first six days, Disney revealed Tuesday.

Earth, creator Noah Hawley introduces us to the face of Weyland-Yutani in the early part of the 22nd century. So far, she doesn’t have a first name (at least not yet).

The bigger your sci-fi franchise gets, the harder it is to keep the canon straight. It's a problem that stretches from "Star Wars" to "Star Trek." Eventually, once you have enough spin-offs, sequels, and prequels under you, once enough decades have passed since the beginning, plot holes and continuity lapses are inevitable.