{"id":23633,"date":"2025-08-22T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tvreal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:06:05","slug":"sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Documentaries Slates Extraterrestrial Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Documentaries has ordered <em>Alien Autopsy<\/em> (w.t.), a new original docuseries from director John Dower (<em>My Scientology Movie<\/em>, <em>Lockerbie<\/em>)\u00a0and Mindhouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u201990s were the golden age of UFO fever\u2014before smartphones, before streaming\u2014when grainy footage, The X-Files and Roswell ruled the headlines,\u201d said Hayley Reynolds, acting director of documentaries and factual at Sky. \u201cThe alien autopsy remains one of the most debated mysteries of the 20th century, and with UFOs once again sparking debate in governments around the world, we\u2019re thrilled to reunite with John Dower, who helmed our BAFTA-winning documentary series Lockerbie and the talented team at Mindhouse as they set out to uncover the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, 18 minutes of grainy film shocked the world\u2014so-called \u201calien autopsy\u201d footage appeared to show three government officials in hazmat suits dissecting the corpse of an alien recovered from a crash site near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>This docuseries follows the members of an ambitious group of filmmakers who found themselves at the center of an unprecedented media storm after re-creating a landmark alien encounter in a North London apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver a decade after the eerie black-and-white footage of an alien autopsy was released in the mid 90s and affected many in a similar way to<em> The Blair Witch Project<\/em>, the film was revealed to have been produced in a small flat in Camden, North London, and not in the New Mexico Desert of Roswell,\u201d said Dower. \u201cWith its makers describing it as \u2018a restoration,\u2019 it is still possible\u202fthat it&#8217;s based on original frames from an existing\u202fpost-war film. I&#8217;ve directed\u202fsome bonkers documentaries in my time, but never one in which it is so difficult to work out what is real and what isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arron Fellows, creative director at Mindhouse, added,\u202f\u201cIt\u2019s incredible that the alien autopsy story has never been told in a premium documentary before, and we&#8217;re thrilled to be working with John Dower at Mindhouse again, after his success with\u202fLockerbie. We look forward to him bringing the same storytelling craft and journalistic rigor to a tale that is as provocative now as it was in the 90s\u2014and taps into our timeless fascination with extraterrestrial life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Documentaries has ordered Alien Autopsy (w.t.), a new original docuseries from director John Dower (My Scientology Movie, Lockerbie)\u00a0and Mindhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7389,"featured_media":23636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[11497,10932,10124,11498,8085],"class_list":["post-23633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-alien-autopsy","tag-arron-fellows","tag-hayley-reynolds","tag-john-dower","tag-mindhouse","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sky Documentaries Slates Extraterrestrial Series - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sky Documentaries Slates Extraterrestrial Series - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sky Documentaries has ordered Alien Autopsy (w.t.), a new original docuseries from director John Dower (My Scientology Movie, Lockerbie)\u00a0and Mindhouse.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T13:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T16:06:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/3-Alien-Autopsy-825-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kloudia Sakowski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kloudia Sakowski\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/\",\"name\":\"Sky Documentaries Slates Extraterrestrial Series - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-22T13:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-22T16:06:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0c0fb596604e018568d0e01fe463109b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/sky-documentaries-slates-extraterrestrial-series-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sky Documentaries Slates Extraterrestrial Series\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0c0fb596604e018568d0e01fe463109b\",\"name\":\"Kloudia Sakowski\",\"description\":\"Kloudia Sakowski is the associate editor of World Screen. 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