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Perrier nominee 'gets US show'

October 14, 2002 (BBC online) -- Britain's Perrier Award nominee Omid Djalili has reportedly landed his own television show in America.

American network NBC is believed to have signed the comic to star in his own show expected to be broadcast next autumn. The project will be based on Djalili's act as well as a self-deprecating look at the collision of his Iranian and Western cultural identities.

A spokesman for NBC told the Hollywood Reporter that Djalili is "the best comic that you don't know. "He is a character actor who is like a bigger-than-life John Goodman, a big lovable guy" >>> Full text
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