The CBC’s hit sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie has been picked up by yet another international broadcaster. Netherlands Public Broadcasting has picked up the first two seasons of the program which will be subtitled, or dubbed in Dutch, this according to Toronto-based WestWind Pictures.
The success of this program goes a long way towards what I have long felt about Canadian Programming, if you write it, they will watch. (I wrote an article about this a few weeks back here.) If they don’t, cancel it and try something else. Little Mosque has attracted media attention all over the world including The New York Times, CNN and the BBC.
The program gets strong ratings each week in Canada, scoring just over 900,000 people this past week according to BBM. This is the right way to produce TV in Canada. Use the production fund and grants to get your program made, then after people are actually watching it, sell that sucker everywhere you can.
We should be exporting more than timber and oil. Good Quality Television is well within our reach, let’s just do it!
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