Biography
Aliens in America is an American television sitcom created by David Guarascio and Moses Port and airing on The CW. Guarascio and Port also serve as executive producers of the show alongside Tim Doyle. Luke Greenfield directed the pilot. The show is about a Wisconsin teenager and the foreign exchange student his mother arranges to host, believing the visitor will help her socially awkward son become more popular. The student turns out to be a Muslim teenager from Pakistan.
Produced by CBS Paramount Network Television, the series was officially greenlit and given a thirteen-episode order on May 15, 2007. It premiered on October 1, 2007, and airs on Monday nights at 8:30/7:30c on The CW, following Everybody Hates Chris. The show was originally to be produced by NBC Universal Television (now Universal Media Studios). It is filmed around the Vancouver, British Columbia area. The high school featured in the show is actually H.J. Cambie Secondary School in Richmond, British Columbia, with the interiors of later first-season episodes shot inside a studio.
Beginning on February 10, 2008, Aliens in America moved to Sunday nights (along with the rest of the Monday night comedies) and aired at 8:30/7:30c.
On May 9, 2008, TV Guide announced that Aliens in America would not return for a second season.
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