Esta serie explora un futuro distópico donde la Tierra se convierte en un gran escenario para un programa de televisión a nivel galáctico. Directores extraterrestres, preocupados por la disminución de la audiencia, buscan giros argumentales dramáticos para mantener al público enganchado. Sigue los épicos, humorísticos y a menudo absurdos intentos de salvar a la humanidad, haciendo eco del estilo de Terry Pratchett.
Buddhavision - a network bigger than God (and more powerful, too). Even with all this excitement, you wouldn't think a backwater planet like Earth makes much of a splash in the galatic pond. And alien TV execs know exactly what the old earth drama needs to make the off-world audience sit up and stare: a spectacular Armageddon-type finale.
When Rex is confronted with The Singular Case of the Purloined Presliana, and the Luminous Order of the Sacred Sprout, he realises things are getting out of control...