As Dark Angel never lost sight of how stymied the lives of working class women were in the nineteenth century, squint and you might even be able to call it a sympathetic portrait.

Dark Angel Fox, Tues. Oct. 3, 9 p.m. Production: Filmed in Vancouver, B.C., by Cameron/Eglee Prods. in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

(“Dark Angel” premiered in October 2000.) Their relationship ended in 2003, with Alba saying years later, “I don’t know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me.

Fox is praying an angel will help lead it out of its Tuesday night ratings hell this fall. More precisely, the net is betting on “Dark Angel,” a futuristic sci-fi actioner from a producer with ...