So much could go so very, very wrong with Little Mosque on the Prairie. But its producers insist that the forthcoming CBC sitcom – about a Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan – is not a show about ‘Muslim humor,’ despite the title.

‘The show is primarily about relationships,’ says Mary Darling of Regina-based WestWind Pictures, ‘and those relationships can be father/daughter, husband/wife, Muslim/non-Muslim.’ She likens its humor to that of Northern Exposure.

WestWind will shoot six half-hours in Toronto starting next month, to be packaged with two older pilots that shot in the Prairies. The series is a copro with creator and Regina-based filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz, director of the comical shorts Death Threat and BBQ Muslims.

Little Mosque has been developing at the Ceeb for two years under comedy chief Anton Leo and got a quiet nod this summer, looking to air in January.