I caught a piece on NPR very recently concerning LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE, from the core concept to aspects of the humor, and it sounded interesting. Or, at least, fun. From what I understood part of the humor is derived from seeing some of your countrymen behaving more like people from my side of the border as far as suspicion and intolerance is concerned. That at least one of the people behind the show (a woman whose name I didn't catch) had grown up in a Muslim community and had based a culturally isolated and overly wary Muslim leader on the show on a similarly well-meaning but clueless religious leader (Imam?) from her childhood. Forbidding his followers from drinking root beer because he didn't know what it was and only heard the "beer" part was one of the real life items to carry over into the show that she cited.
The past week's been lightly peppered with Canadian tv, come to think of it, as a short chain of links lead me to read about a show I'd never heard of before: CORNER GAS. My impression is that it's very popular but most of the people working in Canadian television appear to be ignoring it as if it shouldn't be there and they're just waiting for it to go away. Here's the entry that at least laid out that view of it in the course of looking at problems with homegrown television up there: http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-corner-gas-ruined-everything.html
FYI (you and whoever else might read this) I've signed in using my Livejournal account, but I don't use Livejournal so whatever is out there as my page space is still, to the best of my knowledge, blank.
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Date: 2007-01-27 09:39 pm (UTC)The past week's been lightly peppered with Canadian tv, come to think of it, as a short chain of links lead me to read about a show I'd never heard of before: CORNER GAS. My impression is that it's very popular but most of the people working in Canadian television appear to be ignoring it as if it shouldn't be there and they're just waiting for it to go away. Here's the entry that at least laid out that view of it in the course of looking at problems with homegrown television up there:
http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-corner-gas-ruined-everything.html
FYI (you and whoever else might read this) I've signed in using my Livejournal account, but I don't use Livejournal so whatever is out there as my page space is still, to the best of my knowledge, blank.
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