Sky1 has picked up the UK rights to Star-Crossed and will premiere the sci-fi drama on April 4th. The series originally launched on The CW in the United States in February.
Created by Meredith Averill, Star-Crossed is set in the near future, a decade after an alien race called the Atrians crash-landed on Earth. The survivors have been confined to a guarded settlement, and as the story opens, seven Atrian teenagers are enrolled in a human high school as part of a government integration programme.
At its centre is a romance between Emery, a human girl played by Aimee Teegarden of Friday Night Lights, and Roman, an Atrian boy played by 90210’s Matt Lanter. The two first met as children on the day of the crash, and their reunion at school plays out as a Romeo and Juliet story against a backdrop of fear and prejudice on both sides. Grey Damon, Natalie Hall and Malese Jow also feature.