Zimzum
01-10-2007, 11:30 PM
I watch this today and laughed my ass off. I hope the US market picks it up, i hate torrents.:jointsmile:
2 million saw 'Little Mosque' (http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/169781)
Lee-Anne Goodman
Toronto Star
TORONTO â?? 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 â?? 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.
2 million saw 'Little Mosque' (http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/169781)
Lee-Anne Goodman
Toronto Star
TORONTO â?? 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 â?? 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.