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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV

March 4, 2015
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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV

With religion on fictional television growing, why is it so difficult for press and PR to acknowledge this shift within the industry?
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

June 28, 2012
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

June 26, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

Program buyers in over ninety countries thought their audiences would find Little Mosque worth watching, but the upcoming Hulu premiere is the first time the show had U.S. distribution.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

June 14, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

June 12, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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Spirituality, Excess, and the Pleasures of Survivor: South Pacific

December 13, 2011
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Spirituality, Excess, and the Pleasures of <em>Survivor: South Pacific</em>

Religion is a prominent concern on this season of Survivor. In an early episode, returning cast member Coach told Upolu tribe mate Brandon that it will be a struggle to play the game as moral Christian men. How well did these men do with this task? In the last episode, after saying he’s playing...
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Is It OK to Type This?

April 28, 2010
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Is It OK to Type This?

How did the recent South Park controversy on depicting Mohammed contribute to our overall understanding of the issue?
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Five Thoughts On: Peter’s Palestinian Alarm Clock

November 19, 2009
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I don’t know if I’m the only Jew who watched this episode of Family Guy while residing in the Palestinian Territories, but I’ve got a suspicion that if we all got together we’d have trouble making a minyan. In any case, it’s a good opportunity to offer up a new gimmick for Antenna: ...
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