Will This Be Better Than Galactica 1980
https://moviechat.org/tt0080221/Galactica-1980
Or will it roughly be the same thing albeit with slightly improved visual effects?
Lol - I am surprised you have heard about that obscure and disastrous TV show. I remember it coming back on satellite TV (possibly the early Scifi Channel) briefly when I was a kid for like a week or two but otherwise that's all it did after its initial run.
I'm sure any attempt at an ALIEN show will be just as uninteresting as any of the other modern attempts to turn well-remembered genre films into shows. The WILLOW, LORD OF THE RINGS, DARK CRYSTAL, and DUNE shows have all been underwhelming, boring, and terrible, despite high production budgets.
Gotta disagree about the Dark Crystal. Dark Crystal was an odd and eccentric film and I expected something prosaic with cgi characters. The show, however, was awesome for its dedication to puppet-type characters and by the time the old witch character danced a magical spell into being, I was totally hooked.
Willow's an unwatchable waste. Rings of Power is a plodding, halfway decent fantasy... Until you remember, because of the names, that it is supposed to connect to the Tolkien legendarium. Not even considering the possibility of glancing at the Dune thing.