Netflix Orders Katee Sackhoff Space Drama ‘Another Life’
Netflix has ordered a sci-fi drama called Another Life. Katee Sackhoff, who starred in Battlestar Galactica, stars in Another Life as an astronaut on a mission to explore alien intelligence.
Netflix is on board for 10 episodes.
Aaron Martin is the creator and showrunner. Halfire Entertainment is producing.
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Netflix’s synopsis of the series goes: “Astronaut Niko Breckenridge (Sackhoff) leads a crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. As she and her young crew investigate, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission.”
Sackhoff played Lieutenant Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on Battlestar Galactica, which aired on Sci Fi, as Syfy was previously known, from 2004 to 2009.
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