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From dragons on the west side to a mosque on the prairie
By Boon Kondo
CBC keeps on rolling on the "minority" Canadian shows. They concluded second part of Dragon Boys (see blog below) on Monday night and Tuesday premieres another much talked about show in Little Mosque on the Prairie. Now a lot of this show's attention has come from our Muslim-scared friends to the south. Yeah, it ain't called "Little Jihadist Sleeper Cell in the American Heartland" (though no doubt, that's where much of the satire will be targeted at) but the show has already been covered by CNN's Paula Zahn on top of all the Right wing rejects that are unsurprisingly quite bent about it already.
Albert Brooks might have gone Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World but I wonder if he's gonna get the chance to tune into a little Canadian channel to see how that sense of humour will mesh in our heartland. Judging by the previews though, much like the Dragon Boys mini-series itself, the desired issues to express seem to be pushed out a bit too much in a forced manner for my liking, but this is a series - it will have to time to grow on the audience.
SHOW PREMIERES TUES, JAN. 9 - 8:30 PM on CBC
Interview with Zarqa Nawaz, show creator and producer
CBC has high hopes, Nawaz wants laughs
Maclean's piece
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Posted by Boon KondoJanuary 8, 2007 at 10:42 PM
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