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Posted on 09/01/07

Little Mosque is gloriously Canadian

Today, we celebrate a triumph. What arrives tonight on CBC is the smartest thing the broadcaster has done in years.Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC, 8:30 p.m.) is no masterpiece of comedy or social observation. It's hokey as hell. But it's terrifically good-natured, has a few terrific jokes and its mere existence is a grand-slam assertion that Canadian TV is different and that the best of Canadian TV amounts to a rejection of the hegemony of U.S. network TV.

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