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Little Mosque on the Prairie

In the news: Dealing with race in comedy

From the Toronto Star, touches on Little Mosque on the Prairie:

  • How comedy struggles with being race-y
    “When you’re trying to make light of racial stereotypes or religion, you’d best be sure you’re doing it in a way that doesn’t leave the audience stonefaced instead of laughing as if they’re stoned. If you’re doing satire on terrorism, you’re dancing a fine line between being edgy and bombing, yourself.”
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In the news: Canadian Television Fund in danger

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From Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star:

  • Shaw could kill TV fund
    “That could mean that independent producers of programs such as Degrassi: The Next Generation, Trailer Park Boys, Little Mosque on the Prairie and most documentaries won’t have the financing they need.” She concludes that it might be time, however, to take a long, hard look at the fund.

From the Canadian Press:

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Little Mosque on the Prairie

In the news: Little Mosque on the Prairie

  • From Variety: Muslim Mosque a hit (“Canadians like to think of themselves as an open-minded nation where multiculturalism has long been a part of mainstream political culture, so perhaps it’s not surprising that TV’s break-out hit of the season is a gentle comedy about Muslims in small-town Saskatchewan in the Canadian prairies.”)
  • From the Toronto Star – don’t expect a new episode this week: Hot Box: TV to talk about (“Is this any way to build a hit series?”)
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