Pig's Breakfast

Pig's Breakfast (also known as Off The Air) is an Australian science fiction children's television series by Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson that was broadcast in 1999.

Background
Shirrefs and Thomson originally conceived of Pig's Breakfast in 1989 as a magazine series about aliens who crash-land on Earth and interview humans to learn more about the planet. The premise was changed to suit a sitcom format ten years later. After they pitched it, Channel 9 and production company Southern Star made a deal to co-produce 52 episodes without commissioning a pilot.

The show aired in many countries, including ITV's CITV in the United Kingdom and RTÉ2's The Den in Ireland.

Premise
Two alien school kids named Grob and Meeba accidentally crash their galactic school bus into a television studio on Earth, Channel 9. A producer mistakes them for two actors in rubber suits, there to do a skit on her children's TV show. The aliens are such a hit that she hires them to host the show, whose ratings soar. Two children, Rodney and Lucy Green, discover the aliens' identity and help to keep them safe while they try to fix their bus and return home.

Cast

 * Nicholas Russell as Rodney Green
 * Eve Morey as Lucy Green
 * Heath McIvor as Grob
 * Jennifer Priest as Meeba
 * George Kapiniaris as Queegle
 * Phillip Millar as Queegle
 * Jeremy Hopkins as Phillip Bailey
 * Lynda Gibson as Di Bailey
 * Sally Cooper as Dee
 * Annie Jones as Sue Green
 * Francis Greenslade as Martin Green
 * Peta Brady as Nancy
 * Gary Files as Mr. Howard
 * Ernie Gray as Mr. Pratt
 * Geoff Paine as Malcolm Wilson
 * Catherine Mack-Hancock as Jessica

Setting

 * The Television Studio scenes were filmed in and around the Richmond studios of GTV-9 Melbourne.