Hey, haven’t I seen this somewhere before?
Yes, turns out an American network comedy bears a striking resemblance to the CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Aliens in America is about a Muslim who finds himself living in a community of white North Americans in a Midwest, heartland setting. Although in this case, the plot revolves around a 16-year-old Muslim exchange student from Pakistan sent to live with a suburban family in Wisconsin, not an imam trying to establish a mosque in Saskatchewan.
The producers of Aliens In America admit that Little Mosque was on their radar as early as 2005, while they were developing their own series. “We had finished the script when we first read a blurb in Variety about them developing a show up in Canada,” executive producer David Guarascio (”Just Shoot Me”) said.
Suuuuuuuuure. 
The program airs on the CW network (Copied Wildly? Comedy Withheld?)
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how about Competent Writers, we certainly don’t have any of those around here…
Smells suspicious, although I admit to having no concrete evidence…
You mean the way way Little Mosque on the Pairie imitates every dumb fish-out-of-water sitcom since the Beverly Hillbillies?
Bound to happen. Proverbial fish out of water story. I’ll be interested to see which show is funnier.
The difference in titles says quite a lot.
Hmmm…. The American show doesn’t look quite as promising as Little Mosque. The whole thing that was nice about Little Mosque was that it showed Muslims as a part of Canadian society — not an “alien” group. The not only explicitly calls them aliens, the premise is also about a visitor to the U.S. not a resident.
That’s their twist, yes. Time will tell which one told the better tales and lasted longer on the air(and in the video stores, as well, I hope),