Steven Spielberg will reportedly talk to the dead in a new TV epic for the Sci-Fi channel.

The director of Taken is set to produce a new 12-hour miniseries based on the stories of grieving families trying to communicate with their departed loved ones for the channel that he worked with so successfully in 2002.

Spielberg's alien invasion hit, Taken, which was also produced for the Sci-Fi channel remains the most-watched event in the network's history.