This debut rated high on my skepticism scale - even though I thoroughly enjoyed it and its originality, I still have reservations as to how many "raghead" gags you can cram in 30 minutes for a sustained period? The pilot from CBC.ca is very different from the typical sitcom - the new Imam (priest/rabbi) is chiding his mother for his daring to turn his back on "success" and using what are ordinarily everyday phrases lands himself in Customs as a threat! In the town itself, the café proprietor who is rather Shia (fundamentalist) has conflicts with the Sunni (progressive) convert-wife of one of the the local contractors who started the tempest in a samovar...
An Anglican priest rents his community hall to serve as a mosque for the Muslim section of society over in suburban Canada much to the shock of the immediate "regular" white community who proceed to react in a manner not unlike American ultra-conservative Rush Limbaugh radio-host! The jokes and the threads of plot seem like a one-shot movie rather than a prolonged TV-series, a la "My Beautiful Laundrette" of 22 years gone by or "The Guru" or even "Touch Of Pink" but we shall see what happen when next the muezzin is issued for the faithful to judge - time to roll up the prayer-mat! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/
An Anglican priest rents his community hall to serve as a mosque for the Muslim section of society over in suburban Canada much to the shock of the immediate "regular" white community who proceed to react in a manner not unlike American ultra-conservative Rush Limbaugh radio-host! The jokes and the threads of plot seem like a one-shot movie rather than a prolonged TV-series, a la "My Beautiful Laundrette" of 22 years gone by or "The Guru" or even "Touch Of Pink" but we shall see what happen when next the muezzin is issued for the faithful to judge - time to roll up the prayer-mat! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/