Little America: Great stories about immigrants – and what Canadian TV should be doing GlobeArts
Ravi Kapoor, left, Eshan Inamdar, centre and Priyanka Bose star in the Little America episode The Manager.In the recent media kerfuffle about the role and future of the CBC, there was a strong strain of blather about CBC TV reflecting our “principles of diversity and inclusion.” CBC president Catherine Tait, who used that very phrase writing for this newspaper, also referred to “our tolerance of immigrants” in a speech.
As several readers have expressed to this column recently, a new series on a new service looks exactly like the kind of content that could be made here in Canada, by CBC or by other Canadian broadcasters. The readers are correct. is an anthology series. Eight separate episodes about 35 minutes in length. The scope is modest, but the stories are large in a representative way, and sometimes funny and sometimes tragic.
One day, his parents have to leave and return to their home country to await permission to fully immigrate to the U.S. Kabir is left alone, the only adult supervision being a relative his dad hired to keep an eye on him. It is years before his parents return. Kabir writes often to the U.S. government pleading his parents’ case, but gets nowhere. There is one scene where, thanks to the spelling bee, he gets to make a plea to George W. Bush’s wife, Laura. It is not the happy climax viewers expect.
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