FX Sets Premiere Dates for ‘The Bear’ Season 4, ‘Alien: Earth’ and Sterlin Harjo’s ‘The Lowdown’

FX has set the premiere dates for The Bear season four, Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth and Sterlin Harjo’s The Lowdown starring Ethan Hawke.

The fourth season of The Bear will drop in its entirety Wednesday, June 25 on Hulu starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The binge release is a holdover from the FX on Hulu days; the series will stream internationally on Disney+.

Alien: Earth will premiere on Tuesday, August 12 with a pair of episodes available to stream on Hulu at 8 p.m. and airing on the FX cable channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT; international viewers can stream the series on Disney+. The eight-episode season will premiere one new episode each following Tuesday.

Drama series The Lowdown will premiere its first two episodes on Tuesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FX. The rest of the eight episodes will premiere one at a time over the next six Tuesdays; episodes will be made available on Hulu the day after each of them premiere. The Lowdown is coming to Disney+ internationally.

Season four of The Bear finds Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) ready to take The Bear, now also the name of their fine-dining restaurant, to “the next level,” per FX.

“With new challenges around every corner, the team must adapt, adjust and overcome,” the season four synopsis reads. “This season, the pursuit of excellence isn’t just about getting better — it’s about deciding what’s worth holding on to.” (Here’s where things left off.)

The Bear also stars Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas and Matty Matheson, with Oliver Platt and Molly Gordon in recurring roles. The series was created by Christopher Storer, who serves as executive producer alongside Josh Senior, Joanna Calo, Cooper Wehde, Tyson Bidner, Matheson, Hiro Murai and Rene Gube. Courtney Storer serves as a co-executive producer and culinary producer.

In Alien: Earth, “when the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat,” the logline reads.

More? Sure:

In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

The series Timothy Olyphant. In addition to Hawley, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger executive producer. Alien: Earth is based on the film franchise, hence some of those EPs.

Noir series The Lowdown from creator, executive producer, writer and director Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs) follows “the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon (Hawke), a self-proclaimed Tulsa ‘truthstorian’ whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble,” per FX.

The Disney-owned cable channel and feeder system for quality Hulu programming (and yes, Disney+ internationally), had a whole lot to say about this one.

Lee lives and works in a rare bookstore tucked in the heart of Tulsa — a local refuge and unofficial community hub. While Lee’s no idealist, he’s fiercely committed to exposing corruption and unearthing the city’s hidden rot, even when it puts him at risk. His constant sleuthing pulls him deep into Tulsa’s underbelly — and often away from his 14-year-old daughter “Francis” (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), a precocious kid who’s inherited his curiosity and longs to join him on his adventures. His ex “Samantha” (Kaniehtiio Horn) is exasperated by Lee’s endless digging, but still sees the good in him — especially when it comes to Francis, the one thing they’ve never stopped showing up for.

When the publication of Lee’s latest exposé — a deep dive into the powerful Washberg family — is immediately followed by the suspicious suicide of “Dale Washberg” (Tim Blake Nelson), the black sheep of the family, Lee knows he’s stumbled onto something big. Following a trail of breadcrumbs Dale has left behind, urging someone to dig deeper into the circumstances surrounding his death, Lee does just that. What Lee finds is that “Betty Jo” (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the grieving widow, seems to be more interested in her brother-in-law “Donald Washberg” (Kyle MacLachlan), a gubernatorial candidate, than in her dearly departed. And powerful forces want to prevent Lee from learning anything more. 

Lee has also gained the attention of a mysterious stranger who seems to appear whenever Lee least expects it: refined and suave, “Marty” (Keith David) shares Lee’s appreciation of great literary minds, and seems unusually interested in his investigation into the Washberg family.

In addition to Harjo, series lead Ethan Hawke also executive produces — as does his wife Ryan Hawke and Garrett Basch. All three series are produced by FX Productions.