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Take a look @ footage from "Hunters", the upcoming Australian-produced science fiction TV drama series, from Valhalla Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions, based on author Whitley Strieber's novel "Alien Hunter", debuting the first of 13 episodes April 11, 2016 on Syfy:

Cast includes Nathan Phillips as 'Flynn Carroll' and Britne Oldford as 'Allison Regan', for executive producers Gale Anne Hurd ("The Walking Dead"), Natalie Chaidez ("12 Monkeys") and Emile Levisetti.

"...'Flynn Carroll' is a former soldier turned FBI agent whose recent struggles with 'Ptsd' take a surreal turn when his wife 'Abby' is kidnapped and he's recruited by the 'Exo-Terrorism Unit' ('Etu'), an organization dedicated to taking down a race of aliens known as 'Hunters'..."

"...'Allison Regan' is the most valuable operative of the Exo-Terrorism Unit (Etu). Tough, authoritative, decisive. She's the person you want to have your back in a fight. Maybe the reason why she's so good at...

Syfy has announced that production has begun on their new Hunters TV series. The 13 episodes will debut some time in 2016.

Here's the press release:

Syfy And Universal Cable Productions Announce Start Of Production For "Hunters"

Series Stars Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek), Britne Oldford (American Horror Story) And Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)

Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) And Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys) To Executive Produce 13-part Drama, Set To Premiere On Syfy In 2016

New York - August 3, 2015 - Syfy and Universal Cable Productions (Ucp) today announced that production has commenced in Melbourne, Australia on the upcoming thriller series Hunters. The series is from executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator Trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), who will also serve as showrunner, and Emile Levisetti (Royal Pains). Ernest...

ABC on Thursday became the latest network to trim its 2008-09 development slate, citing the effects of the writers strike on this year's pilot season.

ABC went for a deep cut, releasing about 35-40 scripts, roughly one-third of its slate and the most of any network. Most of the projects are said to hail from the network's sister studio, ABC Studios, and about 15 are believed to be comedy scripts.

ABC's list of dismissed projects is said to include Alana Sanko's Get Out and Rob Lotterstein's One Big Happy. Both are executive produced by ABC Studios-based producers, Salma Hayek and Emile Levisetti, respectively.

Also let go are untitled scripts from Laurice Elehwany, Todd Graff and the duo of Dave Lampson and Andrew Leeds. Graff had been developing his project with non-writing producers Nina Wass and Gene Stein, whose overall deal with ABC Studios was terminated earlier this month, also as a fallout from the strike.

Emile Levisetti has inked a two-year overall deal with Touchstone TV. Under the pact, Levisetti, who was under a development exclusivity deal with the studio for the past two years, will continue to develop series projects for Touchstone as a nonwriting executive producer. "Emile has that rare ability to focus on developing material while simultaneously producing a series," Touchstone TV executive producer Julia Franz said. "He is a forward-thinking producer and someone we consider an integral part of the Touchstone family."...

Kyle Chandler has been tapped to play the lead in NBC's drama pilot Friday Night Lights, based on the 2004 movie, while America Ferrera has been cast in the title role of ABC's comedy Ugly Betty, based on the popular Colombian telenovela. Additionally, Matthew Lillard has signed on as the star of Fox's one-hour pilot 13 Graves, which feature director Dominic Sena has come on board to direct, and Jay Harrington has been cast in CBS' comedy pilot Sex, Power, Love & Politics. On the pilot-pickup side, ABC has given a six-episode commitment to Touchstone Television for a comedy from According to Jim executive producer Howard J. Morris about four friends from high school who reunite unexpectedly when each hits a crossroad in their lives. Morris, who is repped by BWCS Agency, will write the pilot, tentatively titled In Case of Emergency, and serve as an executive produce along with Touchstone-based producer Emile Levisetti.

Emile Levisetti, head of Industry Entertainment's TV production division, has left the management-production firm to ink an overall deal with Touchstone TV. Under the two-year pact, which includes an option for a third year, Levisetti will continue to serve as an executive producer on the comedy Hope & Faith, a co-production of Touchstone and Industry TV. Levisetti, who will continue to commute between New York, where Hope & Faith is based, and Los Angeles, also will be developing other projects for the studio. In addition to Hope & Faith, Levisetti this past season executive produced the Touchstone/Industry TV drama Threat Matrix.

TV drama veteran James Parriott has signed on as executive producer/showrunner on ABC's new drama series Threat Matrix, while Gardner Stern has been recruited as executive producer/co-showrunner on NBC's new James Caan-starring drama Las Vegas. Threat Matrix, from Touchstone TV and Industry TV, revolves around the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's efforts to fight terrorism. On the show, slotted at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Parriott will serve as an executive producer alongside Daniel Voll, Keith Addis, Michael Edelstein and Emile Levisetti.