J.J. Abrams has spent near the last decade traversing the galaxy on the big screen with the Star Trek and Star Wars films, but Abrams is finally eyeing a return to TV writing with a new sci-fi series. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker plans to head back to space once agin with a new spec script he's shopping around to networks. The series would be his first return to television since he created and wrote for Fringe in 2008. Abrams penned the script and executive produces through his Bad Robot banner.

HBO and Apple are said to be locked in bidding war for the script, which the folks over at TVLine have under the working title Demimonde. However, producers Warner Bros. Television are said to be open to other buyers and the project is still being shopped around.

THR has the plot break down

"the Abrams drama is about a family — consisting of a mother who works as a scientist, her husband and their young daughter — who all get into a terrible car crash. After the mother winds up in a coma, her daughter begins digging through her experiments in the basement and winds up transporting to another land amid a world's battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. Her father then follows her into this new world.

While Abrams has been keeping busy with film of late, the writer, director and producer is no stranger to TV, having created or co-created Felicity, Alias, Lost and Fringe. In recent years, Abrams has continued to work regularly as an executive producer in TV, including HBO's Westworld, CBS' Person of Interest, Hulu's 11.22.63, and Showtime's short-lived Cameron Crowe series Roadies. Next up, he's got Hulu's Castle Rock, the Stephen King anthology series from Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomas.

Of course, Abrams has a big fish to fry first -- Star Wars: Episode IX, which gives the filmmaker a chance wrap up the current Star Wars trilogy he launched with 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Abrams was recruited to return for Episode IX after Colin Trevorrow departed the project. He'll direct the film and co-write with Chris Terrio. Abrams is also a producer on Paramount's Star Trek films, including the R-rated Quentin Tarantino project the studio has in the works, as well as the growing Cloverfield universe.