When an alien inadvertently crashed on earth he was dissected and all evidence of his landing was covered up. 

The next alien that crash-landed was not so naive. Before the human race could chop him into bits and label them in vinegar filled jars, he showed them a new piece of visual technology - the Universal TV Network (UTVN).

The Universal TV Network contained thousands of channels from around the civilized galaxies, from the famous soap operas of Centurion Nine, to the informative shopping channels of Grimmer Prime. However, there were ten main channels, the TV stations that nobody in the universe ever failed to watch.

The humans rejoiced (Yay!). Then, after dissecting the visiting alien, we all tuned into Martian TV.

This is by far the most popular UTVN channel. It features a variety of interesting shows and the cutting edge tele-visual treats, but the rating figures are surpassed by one feature alone - the universally famous Channel 8 News. Regarded by most carbon based life-forms as the best thing since the Channel 7 News (equally popular until the main anchor man accidently provoked a galactic war).

Anchor alien Clyde Bissel and his attractive co-anchor Daphne Phi run the news broadcast, supported by their trusty sports desk presenter Coogan Mildew, the weather alien Major Raz-K'Tan, roving reporter Brooklyn Templeton and daring reporter Connie Futz. This whole show is produced by the multi award winning producer Evlyn F. Murray.

The Channel 8 news has won the following prestigious awards in this universal calendar:

• The UTVN News team of the year
• Earth TV awards: News category
• KPIX TV News show award
• ITEC-K International News show award
• Galaxy TV News broadcast of the year
• People Award: Best reporter (Brooklyn Templeton)
• News Anchor Awards: Best Anchor (Clyde Bissel)
• News Anchor Awards: Best Female Anchor (Daphne Phi)
• News Anchor Awards: Best news team

Martian TV is created and illustrated by Chris Booth.

Chris has been illustrating since he could hold a pencil, mix toxic lead-based paints and handle a confusing one button mouse. Now a successful graphic designer and illustrator he lives and works in Oxfordshire, UK, with his patient wife and a very scary self portrait in the loft...

Martian TV first appeared after a particularly boring train journey, where Chris began thinking up comedy television shows and ridiculous movie titles. Inspired by other web comics he decided that the internet would be the perfect vehicle to launch these crazy ideas, and Martian TV would be the perfect excuse for showing them. With a root cast of the Channel 8 news team he can get away with whatever he likes, create the dumbest TV shows and poke fun at things he doesn't really like.

At some point this would make a great animation, but a combination of technical ineptness, beer and general fatigue prevents this from happening...