Los Angeles — Director Steven Spielberg and cable's Sci Fi Channel on Tuesday said they would create a miniseries trilogy to air in 2005, extending a tie-up between the two sides that produced an Emmy Award.

Sci Fi said Nine Lives would be written by Les Bohem and executive produced by him, Spielberg and DreamWorks Television. Bohem also wrote and produced Taken, the 20-hour miniseries that aired over two weeks and won an Emmy for outstanding miniseries.

Sci Fi did not offer any details on Nine Lives, other than to say it was "an epic story of love, death and beyond." It also said the three installments in the televised project would cover stories that were "related but distinct."