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Lightning Point (2012)

Lightning Point poster
Genre
drama television series, fantasy television series
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rated
TV-G
Rating
8.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three alien teenagers crash land on Earth and try to fit in as human teens in an Australian beach town. A local girl helps them hide their secret while they search for a way to return home.

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What happens

Lightning Point is a 2011 Australian science fantasy teen drama television series created and co-produced by Jonathan M. Shiff. The show was filmed in the Gold Coast and Byron Bay. The half-hour series was produced by Shiff for Network 10 in association with Nickelodeon and German public broadcaster ZDF. It was rebroadcast on Network 10 in Australia on 22 June 2012 and again on 5 July 2014. The series premiered on TeenNick in the United States under its international title, Alien Surf Girls on 29 May 2012, and aired on Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2012 under the same name. In January 2013, co-star Jessica Green announced on Twitter (now known as X) that the series would not return for a second season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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