My Parents Are Aliens
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1999 - 2006
- 106 episodes (8 series)
Long-running children's sitcom following the lives of three orphaned children. Their new foster parents are secretly aliens. Stars Tony Gardner, Carla Mendonca, Barbara Durkin, Alex Kew and Charlotte Francis
Press clippings
My Parents Are Aliens cast reunite for 25th anniversary
The cast of popular children's sitcom My Parents Are Aliens reunited this weekend to mark the series' 25th anniversary.
British Comedy Guide, 10th November 2024My Parents Are Aliens cast reunite
The cast of My Parents Are Aliens have reunited as star Tony Gardner appears in a West End play.
British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2023My Parents Are Aliens stars then and now
What have they all been up to in the last 10 years?
Rebecca Pocklington, The Mirror, 19th February 2016Josh from My Parents Are Aliens is now in a band
Remember the spiky-haired Josh Barker from My Parents Are Aliens? Well, actor Alex Kew is now a rather attractive grown-up... and he plays in a band.
Harry Fletcher, Digital Spy, 1st February 2016Call me crazy ... but isn't the best children's TV being made now?
I loved Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard and Gina Yashere's Gina's Laughing Gear. I set my Sky+ for David Schneider (The Day Today) as Uncle Max, or Marcus Brigstocke as King Stupid, which was simply Blackadder with added gunge. The fact is that some of the sharpest writers in Britain had a turn penning CITV's My Parents Are Aliens, and I don't know a child under five who isn't beguiled by Charlie and Lola. Kids TV today, when made properly, can be wonderful.
Grace Dent, The Guardian, 30th May 2007PM are reporting (I'm just listening to it now) that ITV have confirmed their decision to close Granada Kids which means they will no longer be producing new ITV children's programmes, and have cancelled all commissioned shows from independents which includes My Parents are Aliens. This means that any children's programmes appearing on ITV1 and the CITV channel will be repeats or imports.
Stuart Ian Burns, Off The Telly, 27th September 2006