Aliens in America is an American

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 created by David Guarascio and Moses Port that aired on The CW

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 for one season from 2007-2008. Guarascio and Port also served as executive producers of the show alongside Tim Doyle. Luke Greenfield

Luke Greenfield

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 directed the pilot

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. The show is about an American

United States

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 teenager in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 whose family takes in a Muslim

Muslim

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 foreign exchange student from Pakistan

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.

Plot

High school

High school

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er Justin Tolchuck (Dan Byrd

Dan Byrd

Daniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...

) is a sensitive, lanky 16-year-old just trying to fit in at his high school in Medora, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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. He lives with his well-meaning mom Franny (Amy Pietz

Amy Pietz

Amy Pietz is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Pietz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the adopted daughter of Nancy, a nurse, and Arnold Pietz, a truck driver. She trained throughout her childhood in ballet and prepared to go professional, but eventually decided not to due to...

) who just wants him to be "cool" and fit in, entrepreneur dad Gary (Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson (actor)

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) who is very laid back, and his newly popular younger sister Claire (Lindsey Shaw

Lindsey Shaw

Lindsey Marie Shaw is an American actress. She is known for her starring television roles as Jennifer "Moze" Ann Mosely on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and as Claire Tolchuck on Aliens in America.-Career:...

), who tries to raise her popularity in school. When the school guidance counselor, Mr. Matthews (Christopher B. Duncan

Christopher B. Duncan

Christopher B. Duncan is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Braxton P. Hartnabrig on The Jamie Foxx Show and he is also known for playing President Barack Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He portrayed Obama in the 2010 film My Name is Khan as well.Duncan received his B.F.A....

) convinces the family to take in an international student

International student

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, they accept him with the expectation that he will be a good-looking European student that will make Justin popular. Although initially dismayed when Raja Musharraf (Adhir Kalyan

Adhir Kalyan

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), a 16-year-old Muslim

Muslim

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 boy from Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 turns up instead, they soon warm up to him and although their cultures are different, Justin and Raja form an unlikely friendship that might allow them to get past the social nightmare of high school.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Role	Notes
Dan Byrd Dan Byrd Daniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...	Justin Tolchuck	A gawky 16-year-old high school junior usually tormented by other kids
Adhir Kalyan Adhir Kalyan Adhir Kalyan is a South African actor noted for his role in the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement.-Early years:Adhir was born in Durban, South Africa to an Indian South African family...	Raja Musharaff	The Pakistani boy who comes to live with the Tolchucks for a year
Amy Pietz Amy Pietz Amy Pietz is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Pietz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the adopted daughter of Nancy, a nurse, and Arnold Pietz, a truck driver. She trained throughout her childhood in ballet and prepared to go professional, but eventually decided not to due to...	Franny Tolchuck	Justin's mom
Scott Patterson Scott Patterson (actor) Scott Gordon Patterson is an American actor. He is known for his role as Luke Danes in Gilmore Girls and Agent Strahm in Saw IV, Saw V and Saw VI...	Gary Tolchuck	Justin's dad
Lindsey Shaw Lindsey Shaw Lindsey Marie Shaw is an American actress. She is known for her starring television roles as Jennifer "Moze" Ann Mosely on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and as Claire Tolchuck on Aliens in America.-Career:...	Claire Tolchuck	Justin's very popular 15-year-old sister
Christopher B. Duncan Christopher B. Duncan Christopher B. Duncan is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Braxton P. Hartnabrig on The Jamie Foxx Show and he is also known for playing President Barack Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He portrayed Obama in the 2010 film My Name is Khan as well.Duncan received his B.F.A....	Mr. Matthews	The school guidance counselor who suggests to Justin's mother that she take in an international student International student According to Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development , international students are those who travel to a country different from their own for the purpose of tertiary study. Despite that, the definition of international students varies in each country in accordance to their own national...

Patrick Breen

Patrick Breen

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 was originally cast as Gary Tolchuck but the role was re-cast in July 2007.

Production and broadcast history

Produced by CBS Paramount Network Television

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, the series was officially greenlit

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 and given a thirteen-episode order on May 15, 2007. It premiered on October 1, 2007, and aired on Monday nights at 8:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Central on The CW

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, following Everybody Hates Chris

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. The show was originally to be produced by NBC Universal Television (now Universal Media Studios). It is filmed around the Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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 area. The high school featured in the show is actually H. J. Cambie Secondary School

H. J. Cambie Secondary School

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 in Richmond, British Columbia

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, Canada

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 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 8:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Central. On May 9, 2008, TV Guide announced the cancellation of the series.

After the show's cancellation, reruns once aired on Universal HD

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.

Episodes

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code

U.S. Nielsen ratings

Rating information is from Your Entertainment Now and The Futon Critic. The weekly rating information is from ABC Medianet.

Aliens in America averaged 1.57 million viewers in its sole season.

#	Episode	Rating	Share	Rating/Share (18-49)	Viewers (millions)	Rank (timeslot)	Rank (week)
1	"Pilot"	1.6	2	0.8/2	2.33	5	98/102
2	"No Man Is an Island"	1.3	2	0.8/2	2.11	5	93/97
3	"Rocket Club"	1.5	2	0.9/2	2.23	5	93/97
4	"The Metamorphosis"	1.6	2	0.9/2	2.35	5	92/97
5	"Help Wanted"	1.4	2	0.8/2	2.11	5	95/100
6	"Homecoming"	1.2	2	0.7/2	1.78	5	97/101
7	"Purple Heart"	1.3	2	0.8/2	1.99	5	97/101
8	"My Musky, Myself"	1.1	2	0.5/1	1.37	5	90/95
9	"Junior Prank"	1.3	2	0.7/1	1.89	5	93/98
10	"Church"	1.2	2	0.7/1	1.84	5	91/99
11	"Mom's Coma"	0.9	1	0.4/1	1.09	5	94/96
12	"Hunting"	0.8	1	0.4/1	1.17	5	94/96
13	"Community Theater"	0.6	1	0.4/1	0.81	5	99/100
14	"One Hundred Thousand Miles"	0.6	1	0.4/1	0.91	5	91/91
15	"The Muslim Card"	0.7	1	0.4/1	1.04	5	99/100
16	"Smutty Books"	0.8	1	0.4/1	1.04	5	95/96
17	"Wake in the Lake"	0.7	1	0.4/1	1.12	5	96/97
18	"Raja at Sixteen"	0.9	1	0.5/1	1.21	5	94/96

International distribution

Country	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Weekly schedule (local time)
Australia	GO! Go! (Australian TV channel) GO! is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 9 August 2009.-Origins:...	August 9, 2009	Sunday 9:00pm
Brazil	SBT	December 15, 2008	Sunday 3:30am
Kingdom of Bulgaria	HBO Comedy	2009
Costa Rica	Teletica Canal 7 Teletica Canal 7 Canal 7 is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Teletica's founders, the Picado family.Canal 7 has the largest audience in Costa Rica. Repretel currently holds the second spot....	April 17, 2009	Fridays 8:00pm
Independent State of Croatia	HRT2 Croatian Radiotelevision Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite...	April 2009	Monday to Friday 4:40pm
Denmark	TV3 TV3 (Denmark) TV3 Denmark is a Danish television station.TV3 is one of the channels owned by the Viasat Corporation. The sister channel is TV3+. The channels shows a lot of American and British shows, such as: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NCIS, Las Vegas, Bones, Two And A Half Men, Prison Break, American Idol...		Sundays 7:00pm
Germany	ProSieben	April 25, 2009	Saturdays 2:00pm
Finland	MTV3 MTV3 MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...	August 31, 2010	Thuesdays 2:10pm
India	Zee Café Zee Cafe Zee Café is an Indian cable and satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 15 March 2000 as Zee English and known for general entertainment channel...		Thursdays 10:00pm
Republic of Ireland	TV3 TV3 Ireland TV3 is a free-to-air commercial television network in the Republic of Ireland. Launched on 20 September 1998 it was Ireland's first commercial broadcaster. The channel is owned by TV3 Group a subsidiary of Doughty Hanson & Co.-The TV3 Group:...		Sundays 5:30pm
Israel	Xtra HOT HOT family	‏ January 9, 2009	‏ Fridays 9:45pm (3 episodes)
Italy	Joi Joi (TV channel) Joi is an Italian Entertainment TV channel, owned by Mediaset and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy. It is devoted to Family entertainment and broadcasts Movie and TV Series...	January 21, 2008
Lithuania	TV1 TV1 (Lithuania) TV1 is a TV channel in Lithuania, launched in 2003. It is a sister channel of LNK television....	August 23, 2009	Sundays 3:00pm
Mexico	Warner Channel Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American and Asian cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Asia/HBO Latin America Group Warner Channel (commonly shortened to WBTV, but not to be confused with the WB Television Network or Charlotte, North Carolina station WBTV, and currently referred to in...	Summer 2008	Fridays 8:30pm, Saturdays 8:00pm
Netherlands	RTL 5 RTL 5 RTL 5 is the 2nd channel of the RTL Group in the Netherlands. The channel mainly broadcasts American films and hit series but also local productions including Jensen! and Holland's Next Top Model, a Dutch version of America's Next Top Model. RTL 5 recently started airing the Dutch version of...	Summer 2009	Mondays 8:30pm
New Zealand	TV2		Saturdays 7:00pm
Norway	TV Norge		Saturdays and Sundays 3:10pm
Poland	HBO Comedy
Portugal	RTP2	September 15, 2008	Monday to Friday 8:40pm
Slovenia	Kanal A Kanal A Kanal A is the first commercial television station in Slovenia. The television program, which has been operating within PRO PLUS d.o.o., has national coverage. In its primary target group of viewers , Kanal A is the second most watched TV programme in Slovenia...	September 23, 2009	Weekdays 3:40pm
South Africa	SABC 3 SABC 3 SABC3 is a commercial South African Broadcasting Corporation television channel that carries programming in English and, as of April 2009, Afrikaans....		Friday 7:30pm
Spain	laSexta	July, 6 2009	Monday 1:30am
Sweden	Kanal 5 Kanal 5 (Sweden) Kanal 5 is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people...		Fridays 6pm, Saturdays 3:25pm
Turkey	CNBC-e CNBC-e CNBC-e is a hybrid business/financial and entertainment channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV Group.The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e....	September 9, 2009	Wednesdays 8:30 pm
Ukraine	MTV Ukraine MTV Ukraine MTV Ukraine is a Ukrainian language music channel, owned by MTV Networks Europe, a division of Viacom. The channel was launched on 24 August 2007, 6:00 a.m. local time and is available to the whole country of Ukraine through cable and satellite: in Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lutsk, Lviv and...	April 26, 2010	Monday to Friday 9:30 pm
Belgium	VT4 VT4 VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...	march 6, 2011	Sundays 1:00 and 2:00 pm