Little Mosque on the Prairie

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much thanks to acrobi123 :slight_smile:

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Part 2

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awesome!!! when does it air next?

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^ I think its every Wednesday at 8:00 EST on CBC

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hehe you donot choose what country do we deport you to :rotfl:

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i m yet to see tis but i was listining to the radio this morning where they talked about this show and many viewers said..it was just not that funny :S

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"Yea my parents never fasted when I was a kid.......they're huge."

HAHHAHAHA I love this. The writers did an amazing job, and the characters are great! :D

The Imam is handsome. :]

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Hahah, we'll blow away the competition! OMG, that's so phunnay.

Where's this is thing on? What's CBC?

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cbc.. canadian broadcast corp.. its like canada's abc except the station is much more liberal and airs neutral anti propaganda stuff

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Someone should dvd these. Maybe i need to call some people :)

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CBC... it's like a pale shadow of the BBC :p

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didn’t this Imam plays a gay role in Metropia…how could he! he’s so cute:blush:

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I wish they aired it on cable here. :frowning:

Enya - Yeaaaa the Imam is like really cute. I feel so horrible saying that. :bummer:

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http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/169781

2 million saw ‘Little Mosque’

TROY FLEECE/CANADIAN PRESS
Zain (left), Aizaz, Nasreen and Sumaira Ahmed watch the premiere of Little Mosque on The Prairie at their family home in Regina Tuesday night.

January 10, 2007
Lee-Anne Goodman
Canadian Press

TORONTO – The premiere of CBC’s internationally hyped comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie pulled in some 2.1 million viewers, a huge audience for a Canadian show.

By contrast, Corner Gas, CTV’s big sitcom hit and one of the country’s highest-rated shows, routinely pulls in close to 1.5 million viewers a week. Initial numbers suggested Little Mosque won its time slot, even besting a repeat episode of the red-hot U.S. medical drama House.

“We are thrilled and ecstatic,” said Kirstine Layfield, director of network programming for the public broadcaster. “Not only did the number astound us, but the response to the show has been very positive. Three-quarters of the people who phoned in about the show loved it, and the only people who had anything negative to say just didn’t like that we ran commercials.”

Little Mosque has been getting buzz for weeks, with everyone from the BBC to CNN running items on the comedy, the creation of Muslim filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz.

The CBC, struggling terribly in the ratings, had a lot invested in the show and promoted it with uncharacteristic cash and vigour, including an event at downtown Toronto’s Dundas Square last week that featured free chicken shawarma and a band of friendly camels.

“I’ve got to say I didn’t expect it to become the global phenomenon that it has become when I started writing it three years ago,” a giggling Nawaz said Wednesday after getting word about the ratings. “But the comedy does live up to the hype, and future episodes just get funnier and funnier while at the same time delving into some deeper issues.”

The show moves to Mondays at 9 p.m. EST and Wednesdays at 8 p.m. following its Tuesday night debut this week – the only thing that makes Nawaz nervous that the show could lose viewers.

“Our only concern now is that it’s moving to a different time slot, and we hope people will find us,” she said.

Much of the coverage of Little Mosque has focused on the fact that the show is a comedy about Muslims set in a post 9-11 world.

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Little mockeries...

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awww cmon, pal. It’s not so bad. :phati:

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awesome show

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The monks of Tibet are famous for their meditation…One they get into a trance, nothing can pull them out of it…Not even fire…

The Muslims are famous for their prayers…Once they start prayers, nothing can pull them out of it…Not even arrows, if you remember a famous incident regarding Hz. Ali :razi:…But evidently, this show puts that myth to rest…

A Muslim can leave his prayers anytime he wishes…

I mean, it’s a good show, funny too…But please, keep some perspective portraying the tenets…You may be putting bombs, suicides bombings, 9/11 and all that in a lighter side, but portray Muslims as they follow their faith correctly…

Ends do not justify the means…

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^ Yea I was like =\ when I saw that part, but if you watch, the majority of them continued their prayer while only a few got up and the one dude was the only one to actually leave.

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c’mon man, just enjoy the show
why do we gata bring some famous incident into this?