TV5 adds Marzouk's 'Terror Cell'
Sitcom follows suicide bombers in Copenhagen
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Danish pubcaster TV5 has commissioned a series about suicide bombers planning an attack in Copenhagen. And, yes, it's a comedy.
"The Terror Cell," due to air in 2009, is the brainchild of standup comic Omar Marzouk, who is the son of Egyptian immigrants, and will be produced by Respirator, the company he co-founded with fellow comics Kris Norgaard and Michael Pedersen.
The sitcom centers on five Muslim men who live in a rundown apartment where they plan their attacks. The men are lousy terrorists, however, and in every episode they blow up either themselves or the apartment.
Marzouk, who plays one of the quintet, says the series does not make light of people being killed, and that it is as much a satire on Danish culture as it is on terrorism.
"Our mission is not to provoke, it is to make a satire," he says.
The show was inspired by the 1980s Brit comedy "The Young Ones," about four anti-establishment guys who lived together and regarded everything in society as bourgeois.
"That attitude gave them problems, because at the same time they wanted to make money and hit on girls. So we thought: Suicide terrorists in a 'The Young Ones' universe -- that could be fun."
