The child stars of My Parents are Aliens have reunited for a photo with lead star Tony Gardner.
Gardner was overjoyed to see the cast members he worked alongside from 1999 to 2006 attend the play he’s currently starring in.
They all posed together following Gardner’s performance in the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Appearing in the photo were Alex Kew, who played Josh Barker, Charlotte Francis, who played Lucy Barker and Olisa Odele, who starred as Cj.
Stephanie Fearon, who joined the show as Harriet after original star Danielle McCormack left, was also present, as was Jordan Maxwell, who played Frankie Perkins.
Gardner, who was beaming in the photo surrounded by his former cast members, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday (23 March): “My Parents are Aliens reunion at the play tonight. Such a wonderful group of friends.”
My Parents are Aliens ran from 1999 to 2006, airing 106 episodes in total.
Gardner was overjoyed to see the cast members he worked alongside from 1999 to 2006 attend the play he’s currently starring in.
They all posed together following Gardner’s performance in the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Appearing in the photo were Alex Kew, who played Josh Barker, Charlotte Francis, who played Lucy Barker and Olisa Odele, who starred as Cj.
Stephanie Fearon, who joined the show as Harriet after original star Danielle McCormack left, was also present, as was Jordan Maxwell, who played Frankie Perkins.
Gardner, who was beaming in the photo surrounded by his former cast members, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday (23 March): “My Parents are Aliens reunion at the play tonight. Such a wonderful group of friends.”
My Parents are Aliens ran from 1999 to 2006, airing 106 episodes in total.
- 3/23/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Race Across the World returned to screens last night (22 March), with fans taking to social media to praise the series despite one major change.
The adventure-themed reality show, which has moved from BBC Two to BBC One for its current third series, sees five teams attempt to travel as far as they can without smartphones, internet access or credit cards, and armed only with the cash equivalent of the airfare to fly the route.
While the teams usually travel across several countries, this time, they are racing 16,000km through the second largest country on the planet – Canada. This is because the series was filmed last year, when the world was still opening up after the pandemic.
The five pairs must race across the breadth of Canada, passing through seven checkpoints, taking them from the Pacific coastline, to the edges of the Arctic and the shores of the Great Lakes, to...
The adventure-themed reality show, which has moved from BBC Two to BBC One for its current third series, sees five teams attempt to travel as far as they can without smartphones, internet access or credit cards, and armed only with the cash equivalent of the airfare to fly the route.
While the teams usually travel across several countries, this time, they are racing 16,000km through the second largest country on the planet – Canada. This is because the series was filmed last year, when the world was still opening up after the pandemic.
The five pairs must race across the breadth of Canada, passing through seven checkpoints, taking them from the Pacific coastline, to the edges of the Arctic and the shores of the Great Lakes, to...
- 3/23/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
Bradley Walsh’s ITV co-star has addressed claims that their show has been cancelled.
Last week, it was claimed that comedy drama series The Larkins, starring Walsh and Joanna Scanlan, would come to an end due to low ratings.
While ITV is yet to officially announce the show’s cancellation, one of its stars shared a message in response to the claims on social media.
“Thanks for watching #thelarkins,” Tony Gardner wrote.
In the series, Gardner, whose other credits include Last Tango in Halifax and My Parents Are Aliens, plays the wealthy Alec Norman.
He continued: “Made lots of memories and new friends. Can’t ask for any more than that.”
The Larkins, which debuted in 2021, is inspired by He Bates’ novel The Darling Buds of May. The book received its own TV adaptation in the 1990s.
A third series of The Larkins has been filmed, and will be broadcast later this year.
Last week, it was claimed that comedy drama series The Larkins, starring Walsh and Joanna Scanlan, would come to an end due to low ratings.
While ITV is yet to officially announce the show’s cancellation, one of its stars shared a message in response to the claims on social media.
“Thanks for watching #thelarkins,” Tony Gardner wrote.
In the series, Gardner, whose other credits include Last Tango in Halifax and My Parents Are Aliens, plays the wealthy Alec Norman.
He continued: “Made lots of memories and new friends. Can’t ask for any more than that.”
The Larkins, which debuted in 2021, is inspired by He Bates’ novel The Darling Buds of May. The book received its own TV adaptation in the 1990s.
A third series of The Larkins has been filmed, and will be broadcast later this year.
- 2/13/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
A day after the European premiere of season three of his HBO series Succession at the London Film Festival, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, took to the stage with comedian Nish Kumar to discuss the art of screenwriting.
In between dispensing pearls of wisdom for aspiring comedy writers, Armstrong recalled a varied and eclectic career that, surprisingly, began on children’s TV with shows such as ITV’s My Parents Are Aliens and BBC’s The Queen’s Nose.
Armstrong discussed his work with veteran writing partner Sam Bain, recalling how an unsuccessful pitch for a stoner comedy called Spencer, about a “mildly sarcastic” video store clerk, was a rare misfire for the duo, who went on to create popular Channel 4 shows such as Peep Show and Fresh Meat. They would go on to collaborate with Armando Iannucci on BBC’s...
In between dispensing pearls of wisdom for aspiring comedy writers, Armstrong recalled a varied and eclectic career that, surprisingly, began on children’s TV with shows such as ITV’s My Parents Are Aliens and BBC’s The Queen’s Nose.
Armstrong discussed his work with veteran writing partner Sam Bain, recalling how an unsuccessful pitch for a stoner comedy called Spencer, about a “mildly sarcastic” video store clerk, was a rare misfire for the duo, who went on to create popular Channel 4 shows such as Peep Show and Fresh Meat. They would go on to collaborate with Armando Iannucci on BBC’s...
- 10/16/2021
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Barden began her professional career at a young age, shooting an episode of “My Parents Are Aliens” when she was only 7. At the time, she was just having fun. “I was just a showoff, I wasn’t good at acting in any way,” the British actor reveals. It wasn’t until she was 17 and had a role in Stephen Frears’ 2010 film “Tamara Drewe” that she knew she was hooked. “He’s a director for actors, through and through. I don’t know a single person that has worked for him that didn’t have the best time with him,’ she notes. “He didn’t speak to me like I was a child. He spoke to me like I was an adult, he asked me what I thought about the scenes as we were shooting. And I realized I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.”
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- 6/10/2021
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
Jessica Barden is an English actress who is best known for her role in the film “Hanna” as Sophie, released in 2011. She has a big fan base who are consistently interested in knowing what’s going on in her life, both personally and professionally. We checked up on her and learned 10 things that you might find to be interesting about the beloved young celebrity. 1. She’s been an actress for 20 years Jessica Barden began her acting career in 1999. She made her debut on television with a minor role in the television show “My Parents Are Aliens.” From
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- 11/9/2019
- by Dana Hanson-Firestone
- TVovermind.com
Jake Laverde Nov 6, 2017
Fans of Digitiser? Here's why Mr Biffo's Found Footage might just be the web series you were looking for...
Memory is a funny thing. Rather than the fixed viewpoint we expect it to be, memories are malleable objects. Their shapes changed over time, exact details fading away replaced with approximations. But what we remember with sharp clarity is how we felt. TV shows, films music and books can fuel our nostalgia and bring us back to cosier simple times.
It’s the cracks between memories that Mr Biffo’s/Paul Rose Found Footage resides in; a web sketch show that mixes in genuine VHS footage with surreal sketches that play with memory and nostalgia. Riffing on high concept 80s detective shows, cartoon spin offs and songs dedicated to early microcomputer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Sir Clive Sinclair all rendered in gloriously glitchy VHS effect. Further selling the...
Fans of Digitiser? Here's why Mr Biffo's Found Footage might just be the web series you were looking for...
Memory is a funny thing. Rather than the fixed viewpoint we expect it to be, memories are malleable objects. Their shapes changed over time, exact details fading away replaced with approximations. But what we remember with sharp clarity is how we felt. TV shows, films music and books can fuel our nostalgia and bring us back to cosier simple times.
It’s the cracks between memories that Mr Biffo’s/Paul Rose Found Footage resides in; a web sketch show that mixes in genuine VHS footage with surreal sketches that play with memory and nostalgia. Riffing on high concept 80s detective shows, cartoon spin offs and songs dedicated to early microcomputer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Sir Clive Sinclair all rendered in gloriously glitchy VHS effect. Further selling the...
- 11/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Pete Dillon-Trenchard May 27, 2017
Doctor Who series 10: we go Easter egg hunting in The Pyramid At The End Of The World
Spoilers lie ahead...
See related Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave: Marvel’s creepiest villain yet Iron Fist: Rosario Dawson pops up in new clip Luke Cage smashed Marvel's 2016 Netflix ratings
The Monks have taken over the planet, and I forone welcome our new decomposing overlords. Fortunately they’ve given us permission to publish this list of references, similarities and generally interesting things that we found inside The Pyramid At The End Of The World. They’ve also asked that we let you know it is your duty to leave anything that you feel we’ve missed in the comments section...
There’s a president for that
The Doctor’s role as president of the world comes into play again here; it was first established in 2014’s Death In Heaven...
Doctor Who series 10: we go Easter egg hunting in The Pyramid At The End Of The World
Spoilers lie ahead...
See related Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave: Marvel’s creepiest villain yet Iron Fist: Rosario Dawson pops up in new clip Luke Cage smashed Marvel's 2016 Netflix ratings
The Monks have taken over the planet, and I forone welcome our new decomposing overlords. Fortunately they’ve given us permission to publish this list of references, similarities and generally interesting things that we found inside The Pyramid At The End Of The World. They’ve also asked that we let you know it is your duty to leave anything that you feel we’ve missed in the comments section...
There’s a president for that
The Doctor’s role as president of the world comes into play again here; it was first established in 2014’s Death In Heaven...
- 5/27/2017
- Den of Geek
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Mark Gatiss penned this Saturday's Doctor Who instalment, Sleep No More. We've got lots of pictures from the episode right here...
No, your monitor isn't playing up. That distorted image above is a promotional picture for this Saturday's Doctor Who episode, Sleep No More, which looks set to be a creepy one.
Mark Gatiss has penned the script, and his League Of Gentlemen cohort Reece Shearsmith has been recruited for a guest appearance. Justin Molotnikov - of Merlin, Atlantis, Da Vinci's Demons and My Parents Are Aliens vintage - directed this episode, as well as the one that will follow it - Face The Raven.
"This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station," the brief synopsis tells us.
You can see lots of images from the episode by clicking into the gallery at the top of this page.
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Mark Gatiss penned this Saturday's Doctor Who instalment, Sleep No More. We've got lots of pictures from the episode right here...
No, your monitor isn't playing up. That distorted image above is a promotional picture for this Saturday's Doctor Who episode, Sleep No More, which looks set to be a creepy one.
Mark Gatiss has penned the script, and his League Of Gentlemen cohort Reece Shearsmith has been recruited for a guest appearance. Justin Molotnikov - of Merlin, Atlantis, Da Vinci's Demons and My Parents Are Aliens vintage - directed this episode, as well as the one that will follow it - Face The Raven.
"This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station," the brief synopsis tells us.
You can see lots of images from the episode by clicking into the gallery at the top of this page.
Sleep...
- 11/10/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Paterson Joseph chats to us about Good Omens, Peep Show, being cut from Paddington, and why he'd "never say never" to playing the Doctor...
Where do you begin with Paterson Joseph? Be it on stage or the small screen, he’s popped up everywhere from Shakespeare to Survivors, from Casualty to Green Wing. To some, he’s the suave, sharply dressed and, latterly, lapsed alcoholic Alan Johnson in Peep Show. But to others, this writer included, he’ll always be the mysterious, flamboyant swashbuckler, the Marquis de Carabas, from Neil Gaiman’s rich sub-London fantasy Neverwhere.
Now, he’s appearing on BBC Radio 4 in a festive double bill of prestige productions. First, he’s giving voice to fast-food mogul and horseman of the apocalypse Famine in Good Omens, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Then, on New Year’s Day, he’s Pierre, the passionate protagonist...
Where do you begin with Paterson Joseph? Be it on stage or the small screen, he’s popped up everywhere from Shakespeare to Survivors, from Casualty to Green Wing. To some, he’s the suave, sharply dressed and, latterly, lapsed alcoholic Alan Johnson in Peep Show. But to others, this writer included, he’ll always be the mysterious, flamboyant swashbuckler, the Marquis de Carabas, from Neil Gaiman’s rich sub-London fantasy Neverwhere.
Now, he’s appearing on BBC Radio 4 in a festive double bill of prestige productions. First, he’s giving voice to fast-food mogul and horseman of the apocalypse Famine in Good Omens, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Then, on New Year’s Day, he’s Pierre, the passionate protagonist...
- 12/19/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Remember the precious little boy from Love Actually? Who asked Liam Neeson what could be "worse than the total agony of being in love?" Well, it's been quite some time since the 2003 release of that beloved rom-com, but Thomas Sangster (known as Sam in the flick) has maintained every bit of that boyish charm! The now-23-year-old Brit was spotted strolling through New York City Tuesday, standing much taller than his 12-year-old self. He even had a lovely lady by his side—actress Isabella Melling, known for her roles as Wendy in the kids' show My Parents Are Aliens. Thomas didn't really just reemerge out of nowhere, though. He's appeared in movies including Nanny McPhee and...
- 3/20/2014
- E! Online
Last of the Summer Wine has topped a survey of UK comedy repeats.
A new poll has found that the former BBC series has been aired on UK screens 483 times in the first three months of 2013 alone, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The series starred the late Bill Owen and ran for 37 years between 1973 and 2010, with a total of 295 episodes aired. It topped the survey ahead of Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker's My Family, which ran for 11 series between 2000 and 2011.
My Family has been repeated 233 times. It was followed in third by Stephen Fry's Qi with 179 repeats and in fourth by Only Fools and Horses with a total of 161 repeats.
The 483 repeats of Last of the Summer Wine aired in January, February and March this year. This is an average of five episodes per day, and, in total, if aired continuously, they would last for just over ten days.
A new poll has found that the former BBC series has been aired on UK screens 483 times in the first three months of 2013 alone, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The series starred the late Bill Owen and ran for 37 years between 1973 and 2010, with a total of 295 episodes aired. It topped the survey ahead of Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker's My Family, which ran for 11 series between 2000 and 2011.
My Family has been repeated 233 times. It was followed in third by Stephen Fry's Qi with 179 repeats and in fourth by Only Fools and Horses with a total of 161 repeats.
The 483 repeats of Last of the Summer Wine aired in January, February and March this year. This is an average of five episodes per day, and, in total, if aired continuously, they would last for just over ten days.
- 4/7/2013
- Digital Spy
News Louisa Mellor Dec 17, 2012
Nostalgia trip ahoy! Get ready for an entire weekend of the best of Citv’s last thirty years…
Super Gran. T-Bag. Knightmare. Count Duckula. Press Gang. Dangermouse. The sights and sounds of your childhood (assuming that you grew up near a TV set in the UK after 1983) are coming back for one weekend only.
To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, digital channel Citv is programming an entire two days of the best of its content from the last three decades on Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th of January 2013.
The full schedule for the Old Skool Weekend (yes, with a 'k') is below, so fill your nostalgic, Puddle-Lane branded boots:
Saturday the 5th of January
09.25 Mike & Angelo
09.50 Super Gran
10.15 Wizadora
10.30 T-Bag Strikes Again
10.50 Engie Benjy
11.05 The Raggy Dolls
11.15 Puddle Lane
11.35 Count Duckula
12.00 The Sooty Show
12.25 Art Attack
12.40 The Big Bang
13.00 Finders Keepers
13.30 Fun House
14.00 Knightmare
14.30 Fraggle Rock
15.00 The Worst Witch
15.30 Woof!
Nostalgia trip ahoy! Get ready for an entire weekend of the best of Citv’s last thirty years…
Super Gran. T-Bag. Knightmare. Count Duckula. Press Gang. Dangermouse. The sights and sounds of your childhood (assuming that you grew up near a TV set in the UK after 1983) are coming back for one weekend only.
To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, digital channel Citv is programming an entire two days of the best of its content from the last three decades on Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th of January 2013.
The full schedule for the Old Skool Weekend (yes, with a 'k') is below, so fill your nostalgic, Puddle-Lane branded boots:
Saturday the 5th of January
09.25 Mike & Angelo
09.50 Super Gran
10.15 Wizadora
10.30 T-Bag Strikes Again
10.50 Engie Benjy
11.05 The Raggy Dolls
11.15 Puddle Lane
11.35 Count Duckula
12.00 The Sooty Show
12.25 Art Attack
12.40 The Big Bang
13.00 Finders Keepers
13.30 Fun House
14.00 Knightmare
14.30 Fraggle Rock
15.00 The Worst Witch
15.30 Woof!
- 12/17/2012
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Production has begun in Northern Ireland on Sixteen South's children's series 'Big and Small'. Filming has begun in Belfast and will continue for eight weeks. This is the third series of children's show 'Big and Small' and is a co-production between Sixteen South and Kindle Entertainment. The 26x11 minute series has been commissioned by CBeebies. Produced by David Collier (The Basil Brush Show) and executively produced by Kindle's Anne Brogan (My Parents are Aliens) and Sixteen South's Colin Williams (Sesame Tree)...
- 6/20/2011
- IFTN
The final ten women hoping to become the new Dorothy on Over The Rainbow have been revealed. The final 20 all had to sing in front of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the panel - Charlotte Church, John Partridge and Sheila Hancock - on tonight's show to convince them to put them through to the next stage of the competition. The hopefuls were divided into groups of four and had to sing one pop song and one West End track to persuade the judges to save them. Among the final ten are 18-year-old Bronte Barbe, 17-year-old Stephanie Davis and former Page 3 girl Amy Diamond, although Webber said that he is "not quite sure she could be a Dorothy". 18-year-old Jenny Douglas, former X Factor contestant Sophie Evans and Steph Fearon, who has previously starred in Casualty and My Parents Are Aliens, also made the cut. The youngest contestant, 16-year-old Dani Rayner,...
- 3/27/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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