Quatermass is returning to television - over a decade since the character last visited the small-screen.

Created by legendary writer Nigel Kneale, Professor Bernard Quatermass is a genius scientist who battles alien forces.

First appearing in the BBC's 1953 serial The Quatermass Experiment, the character has gone on to feature in numerous TV and film projects.

Now, BBC America is revisiting the character for a new series written by The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson, reports Variety.

Red Production Company - which brought us Happy Valley, Scott & Bailey and many more - are behind the new series, which will follow both Quatermass and his daughter.

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The last Quatermass outing was in 2005, with Jason Flemyng playing the Professor for a live BBC Four staging of The Quatermass Experiment, which also starred David Tennant.

Along with the new Quatermass, BBC America has also ordered Trip - a new series based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West, previously adapted as the classic '70s series Monkey.

Finally, the producers of Orphan Black will reunite with the broadcaster for Memoria - a new drama about a man who finds his own memories in conflict with recorded evidence.

It's Quatermass that has got us most excited, though. With Dyson on scripting duties, maybe Mark Gatiss would be up for playing the good professor?

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