Canada’s VisionTV Adds Comedy Series to Schedule

TORONTO, July 11: The Canadian multi-faith and multicultural
broadcaster VisionTV is set to broadcast the complete first season of the
comedy series Little Mosque on the Prairie,
beginning August 6 at 9 p.m.

The first season of eight half-hour episodes will air on
VisionTV Monday nights. Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on CBC in January, attracting an average
of more than a million viewers per episode. A second season will premiere
October 3 on CBC.

Created by writer, broadcaster and filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz, Little
Mosque on the Prairie tells the story of a
small Muslim community in a prairie town where the locals are wary of their new
neighbors. The executive producers of the series are Mary Darling and Clark
Donnelly of WestWind Pictures. Michael Snook and Susan Flanders-Alexander are
the series producers. The director of the series is Michael Kennedy.

VisionTV has also aired Nawaz’s acclaimed documentary Me
and the Mosque, which was produced through
the National Film Board of Canada's Reel Diversity program. The hour-long film
examined the role of women in Islam and the strict separation of the sexes that
is enforced to this day in many mosques.

Mark Prasuhn, the COO and senior VP of programming for
VisionTV, commented: "VisionTV is delighted to give Canadians another
opportunity to enjoy this groundbreaking and original series. Its essential
themes—learning to accept our differences and understand what we have in
common—make it a perfect fit for our multi-faith and multicultural
service."