In the news: jPod debuts Tuesday

Joshua Ostroff of Eye Weekly talks to writer Douglas Coupland about jPod:

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    “Mom-run basement grow-ops. Ballroom-dancing Asian gangsters. Sneaker-collecting videogame gore specialists. Robitussin-swilling computer coders. Junkie bosses. Dead bikers. Human traffickers. Skateboarding turtles. And iconic sitcom dad Alan Thicke as a rum ‘n’ Gatorade–addicted, sieg heil-ing, made-for-cable movie extra having an affair with his son’s old high-school algebra partner. Pop-cult novelist Douglas Coupland’s first foray into television, an adaptation of his 2006 black comedy book jPod, is not your parent’s CBC series.” Read more.

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The Jarlewski family (from left to right) Sherry Miller as Carol, David Kopp as Ethan and Alan Thicke as Jim.

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