Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC Television created by Zarqa Nawaz. The series focuses on the Muslim population of the fictional rural prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan.. The show derives much of its humour from the interactions of the Muslims with the non-Muslim townspeople of Mercy and by the contrast of conservative Islamic views (held primarily by the characters of Baber and Fatima) with more liberal interpretations of Islam (as represented by Amaar and Rayyan).
The show premiered on Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. It airs Wednesdays at 8:00 and repeats the following Monday at 9:00 (all times half an hour later in Newfoundland). The Monday, January 15 broadcast was a repeat of the pilot.
The series premiere drew an audience of 2.1 million — an exceptionally strong rating for domestic programming in the Canadian television market, and on par with Canadian ratings for popular American series. By comparison, Corner Gas, one of the highest-rated Canadian TV shows, attracts just under a million and a half viewers for a typical episode. The second episode, airing against the second night of the much-anticipated season premiere of American Idol in most markets, had 1.2 million viewers, a sharp drop but still a high rating for a Canadian sitcom, and very high for the CBC, which has had trouble garnering large audiences for its scripted programming.
At the end of the show’s season on 7 March 2007, the show attracted 1.1 million viewers, or an average of 1.2 million for the season. CBC Television has renewed the show for a second season consisting of 20 episodes. These will begin airing on October 3, 2007.
For those of you who have never seen the show check out the 1st episode here from season 1.
Here some quotes from Barber (the extremist )
“American Idol! Canadian Idol! I say all idols must be smashed!”
“Desperate Housewives … why should they be desperate when they’re only performing their natural womenly duties?”
