Apple TV+ has gained a strong reputation for its lineup of sci-fi shows, including its new most popular series ever: Severance. Now, the company has just announced the release date for its next big sci-fi show. It’s called Murderbot, and it hits Apple TV+ this spring.

Murderbot premieres in May with first season

Murderbot is a new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedic thriller based on the hit book series The Murderbot Diaries. It stars Alexander Skarsgård.

Apple TV+ just announced that Murderbot’s 10-episode season will premiere on Friday, May 16. The first two episodes will be available then, with weekly drops through July 11.

With the second season of Taylor Sheridan‘s 1923, Harrison Ford returns to a genre that he’s always loved: the Western.

The Indiana Jones superstar’s résumé in that area includes 2011’s Cowboys & Aliens, 1979’s The Frisco Kid and 1968’s Journey to Shiloh, along with the first season of the Yellowstone-universe series, in which he plays patriarch Jacob Dutton. The show follows an earlier generation of the Dutton family as they face the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.

The iPhone 16e represents a huge change from the third-gen iPhone SE it replaces. A modern design, OLED screen, Face ID, latest(ish) A18 chip, Apple Intelligence, 48MP camera sensor, 26-hour battery, USB-C, C1 modem, and more.

But there’s one other huge difference, and it’s this one which I think makes the latest entry-level iPhone a crucial experiment for the Cupertino company …

The price tag.

The iPhone SE 3 started at $429, while the iPhone 16e starts at $599.

If aliens exist, Apple may be about to tell the origin story of how we found out…

Deadline exclusively reports that Apple Original Films is the likely suitor for an upcoming movie centered around UFO disclosure. The untitled sci-fi (fiction, debatable) film is expected to focus on events in recent years around the U.S. government’s disclosure of previously classified footage of what is now called a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena). For years, the stigma surrounding unidentified flying objects (UFOs) was too strong for serious discussion

Apple clearly has a target audience in mind for the new iPhone 16e. The company is also rather forthcoming about the future of the iPhone 16e.

Who is iPhone 16e for?

If you’ve always wanted an iPhone with an extra lowercase e in the name, then wow does Apple have an iPhone to sell you.

But seriously, Apple is pretty straightforward about which existing iPhone customers it anticipates will upgrade to the iPhone 16e.

Apple is aiming to reach current users of iPhone SE 2 and iPhone SE 3, iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 12 mini. Or Android users who are already used to weird model names with random letters.