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Saturday January 20, 2007

[ Culture ] Little Canadian Comedy on the Prairie

Zarqa Nawaz
U.S. TV broadcasters continue to debate the desirability of Zarqa Nawaz' Little Mosque on the Prairie before showing it to their American audience.
In the meantime, you can find torrents for Little Mosque here. To load these torrents, consider Azureus which has a great Java torrent client fit for various platforms.
Last time I checked, the "swarms" for these torrents were quite large, composed of several hundreds. Most peers were complete and sharing, and download rates were very high. So, the whole thing can probably be down-loaded in less than 1 hour, perhaps in 1/2 an hour if the number of peers continue to be large.
I've included YouTube renditions of the first episode below. Apparently, this first episode of Nawaz' little sitcom has become the most watched Canadian sitcom episode ever. The ads are mixed in. (The second and third episodes seem to have been broadcast in Canada but cannot yet be found on YouTube.)
InsideCBC.Com, the official blog of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covers the show. CBS carries an interview with Ms. Nawaz.

2007-01-20 23:56:00.0 -- Comments [5] ; Permalink ; Trackback.
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Comments:

are these downloads legal?

Posted by 90.4.176.225 on January 21, 2007 at 12:48 PM PST #

I'm not sure. I'm not a lawyer.

Posted by M. Mortazavi on January 21, 2007 at 06:36 PM PST #

I doubt there are any legal issues with the YouTube distribution. I suppose it all depends on what other rights are granted to the series.

Posted by M. Mortazavi on January 22, 2007 at 09:49 AM PST #

[Trackback] For those of you who do not know, Masood Mortazavi’s blog, On The Margins, is frequently the number one blog on blogs.sun.com (sometimes Jonathan’s blog surpasses his as top ranking). He has a link this week to the Canadian TV show, Littl...

Posted by Helzerman's Odd Bits on January 23, 2007 at 07:56 AM PST #

thanks for the links to the videos. the first episode was funny

Posted by mo on January 27, 2007 at 07:52 AM PST #