From CBC News:

• Sask. town to play bigger role in Little Mosque
  “The Saskatchewan community of Indian Head will be a fine stand-in for the fictional town of Mercy in the upcoming third season of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a producer of the CBC-TV series said Thursday.” Read more.

From the Montreal Gazette:

• CBC hit is just ‘bad vaudeville in hijabs’
  “La Presse television critic, Hugo Dumas’s review was headlined ‘Bad vaudeville in hijabs.’ He opened with, ‘Like our friends in the Rest of Canada, the series … is polite, smiles abundantly, respects the conventions, does not provoke fiery debate and … flirts with being utterly boring.’ The coup de grâce of the article was this: ‘I had the unpleasant impression that I was attending very ordinary summer theatre.’ Meanwhile, Caroline Roy, at Le Journal de Montréal, seemed to like the series (it’s often difficult to tell with her), and offered, ‘Prejudices between the Muslims and ‘Canadiens de souche’ explode but always in a humorous tone.'” Read more.

From Bill Harris of the Toronto Sun:

• Familiar faces adapt Othello: Little Mosque stars bring Shakespeare to small screen
  “‘Our pitch, the idea we all came up with, was this: In order to make something that people want to see, you have to have people in it that people want to see,’ Zaib Shaikh said. That was the starting point for the CBC’s new streamlined version of the Shakespeare play Othello, which airs Sunday.” Read more.