Everything about Little Mosque on the Prairie, eh?

In the news: Little Mosque on the Prairie reruns on Vision

From CanWest News Service:

Are we confused yet? Reruns pop up all over the dial
Vision will rerun the eight episodes of Little Mosque’s first season on Mondays throughout August and September. Then, the show will return with new episodes on Oct. 3 –back on CBC.

From the Canadian Press:

‘Corner Gas’ nabs a leading six nominations for Canadian Comedy Awards
“Nominees for the annual Canadian Comedy Awards were announced Wednesday with the CTV series “Corner Gas” getting a leading six nods, including best direction and a best male performance honour for Eric Peterson. “Corner Gas” star and creator Brent Butt is named in four of the six nominations and is nominated twice in the category of best writing special or episode.”

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

After five seasons in Canada, ‘Corner Gas’ set to air in U.S.
“[Brent] Butt, who was joined at the breakfast by co-stars Nancy Robertson (Wanda), Gabrielle Miller (Lacey) and Tara Spencer-Nairn (Officer Karen Pelly), is pretty sure Americans will get his show. He’s been told Dog River reminds them of rural Nebraska. “They just accept that it is a small town in the middle of nowhere,” he said. Someone once described his show as “Seinfeld” rocketed back 40 years and put in Mayberry. That’s the description he passes along to Americans.”

From Alex Strachan of CanWest News Service:

U.S. gets pumped for “Corner Gas”
“It was a Canadian invasion done the Canadian way â€” mild-mannered, self-deprecating and with a wry twist of humour. And it took the Los Angeles media by storm. The Tribune Broadcasting satellite and cable network and WGN Superstation have bought the rights to all four seasons of Corner Gas â€” pitched to the American media as â€œan ensemble comedy (about) a bunch of nobodies in the middle of nowhere who get up to nothingâ€ â€” and Brent Butt was introduced to breakfast viewers of Los Angeles’ KTLA as â€œa guy from Canada whose name is Butt.â€”

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

U.S. show like CBC’s ‘Mosque’
“A U.S. network comedy – The CW’s “Aliens In America” – bears a striking resemblance to CBC’s hottest show in years. Like “Little Mosque,” which premiered to 2.4 million Canadian viewers last January, “Aliens In America” is a fish-out-of-water story about a Muslim who finds himself living in a community of white North Americans in a Midwest, heartland setting.”

From John Doyle, normally of the Globe and Mail but here writing for TV Quarterly:

What makes Canadian TV so different?
“Little Mosque on the Prairie made the American media curious because it has a comic premise that’s outrageous in the context of mainstream U.S. network TV â€” it finds comedy in the lives of a group of Muslims living in a small prairie town where many of the locals are suspicious of them.”