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From Just Press Play:
- Great Shows You’ve Never Seen: “jPod”
“Have you ever heard of the author Douglas Coupland? He writes novels with a comical nod to pop culture, though the main plot might be gravely serious. In the case of jPod, it was just another book about that generation of young professionals who graduated in an era when computer science was the hottest destination under the sun. Coupland wrote a few books about this generation (they’re all worth checking out), but only jPod found its way as a television show. Guess what? You probably never heard of it. But you really ought to seek it out.” Read more.
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From James Donaghy of the Guardian (UK):
- jPod – another cancelled cult show
“Few things rattle a TV viewer’s cage like a show unjustly culled before its time. They hold vigils, wage nut warfare; some hardy souls even buy the DVD. One such prematurely axed cult favourite, jPod, makes its way to British screens this week.” Read more.
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From Glen Schaefer of The Province:
- Television awards tuned into the city
“Actors Ben Ratner and Gabrielle Miller hosted a reception at the Sutton Place Hotel last night for their B.C. show-business peers nominated at this year’s Gemini Canadian television awards.” Read more.
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From Judith Klassen at Movie Entertainment:
- Drinkers on writing
“Jude swills wine with Blood Ties scribes Shelley Eriksen (Cold Squad, Show Me Yours) and Dennis Heaton (Fido, Jpod), as well as writer Edward Kay (22 Minutes, Jimmy Two Shoes) about vampires, women in the writers room, Deadwood with a laugh track, and so much more; Eriksen and Heaton also geek out on Battlestar and its coming prequel, Caprica. ” Listen here.
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From mlive.com:
- CBC’s jPod: A sitcom for hardcore gamers
“But unless you were watching in January, you probably missed “jPod,” a brilliant comedy series about a team of gore-obsessed video game designers, their clueless boss, their crazy parents and Vancouver’s most notorious Chinese gangster. Lucky for you, CBC is re-airing the series, starting tonight at 8 p.m.” Read more.
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From the Province:
- Hear Them Roar
“TV series lead actors were Maple Ridge’s Tyler Labine for the U.S. comedy Reaper, and jPod’s Emile Ullerup. Best guest actors were Ryan Robbins and Babz Chula, both for episodes of jPod. Best supporting actors were Jody Racicot of Flash Gordon and Julie Patzwald of The Guard.” Read more.
From Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail:
- Leo Awards recognize the B.C. film and TV industry
“jPod, which has been cancelled by CBC, picked up four Leos, including best guest performance by a female for Babz Chula. Chula has cancer and was too ill to attend, but in an acceptance speech delivered by actor Ben Ratner, she said too many shows win awards after they’re cancelled.” Read more.
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Posted by: Diane in Awards, JPod
From Craig Takeuchi of the Georgia Straight:
- jPod and Normal lead Leos
“The full slate of Leo Award nominees was announced on April 21, as a follow-up to the first round of announcements on April 9. The now-cancelled jPod leads the dramatic-series categories with 15 nominations, including best dramatic series and best direction. All four nominations for best screenwriting in a dramatic series went to jPod for four separate episodes. Smallville, Tin Man, and Flash Gordon followed with seven nominations each for dramatic series.” Read more.
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From a media release:
All nominees for the 10th Anniversary Leo Awards were announced today. In addition to the earlier announcement of select program categories included in the Leo Awards Film Festival, the list of nominees for the Leo Awards 2008 is now complete and can be viewed online at http://leoawards.com/nominees_2008.html.
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From Douglas Bell of Toronto Life:
- Boob Tube
“The CBC thinks it knows what you want: American-style trash with a Canadian twist. But its most commercial effort—a series about oversexed hockey wives—was canned after two months. What now?” Read more.
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From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:
- What’s a fan to do when a favourite gets axed?
“Can cough syrup do for jPod what 20 tons of peanuts did for Jericho? The success of Jericho fans in wrestling another season of the doomsday show out of CBS by teaming up with an on-line nut distributor and peppering the reluctant broadcaster has every other fan of a cancelled TV show looking for the right gimmick. Fans of jPod, however, have ruled out expressing their ire at the CBC by shipping cough syrup to the public broadcaster (in reference to a character on the show who abuses cough syrup). Their smarter suggestions for saving the cancelled show based on the Douglas Coupland novel include good old-fashioned letters and messages to the computer manufacturer Dell, telling it how great its product looked on jPod.” Read more.
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From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:
- Trojan Horse Left At Gate
“CBC’s much ballyhooed The Trojan Horse, starring Paul Gross, drew 690,000 viewers Sunday night. … Some other recent CBC numbers, for those who still like to keep track: The Border (March 24): 610,000. Anne Murray Duets: 823,000. Rick Mercer Report: 885,000. Sophie (March 26): 407,000. jPod (March 28): 307,000.” Read more.
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From Alex Strachan of Canwest Media at TV Guy’s Guide to Good TV:
- Fan campaign to save ‘jPod’
“This ship has probably already sailed, but that isn’t going to stop fans from throwing a lifeline. Devotees of the recently booted jPod have launched a campaign to get CBC program executives — yes, hard as it may be to believe, the public broadcaster does have some — to change their mind about the show’s cancellation.” Read more.
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From Rob Salem of the Toronto Star:
- Hot Box, TV worth talking about
“Pod People: As aggressively un-Canadian as this may seem, a fan campaign has been launched to convince the CBC to resurrect the cancelled jPod. Find out more at savejpod.ca. (The intriguing notion of drowning the network in cough syrup, à la the Jericho fans’ peanut campaign, has been deemed too messy and expensive.)” Read more.
jPod Podsters (counter clock-wise) Steph Song as Bree, David Kopp as Ethan Jarleswski, Emilie Ullerup as Kaitlin, Ben Ayres as Cowboy, Torrance Coombs as John Doe.
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From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:
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 Can Sophie Survive Survivor?
“Did CBC jump the gun on that Sophie renewal? Ever since CBC announced they were picking up two of their four January starts, Sophie and The Border, the rookie comedy series, starring Mimi Kuzyk and Natalie Brown (right), has been sinking like a rock. This Wednesday it was down to 290,000 viewers.” Read more.
- Global Keeps its Guard Up
“Global announced today that it is renewing three of its rookie shows: The Guard, ‘Da Kink In My Hair and the summer series The Best Years. Hey, the more Canadian shows the better, jobs are jobs and this news keeps people working in Vancouver and Toronto. But Global’s release suggests that these renewals are “based on solid statistics of the first seasons.” Perhaps, but in the case of ‘Da Kink at least, earning brownie points before the CRTC had to be a factor.” Read more.
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Posted by: Diane in Corner Gas, Degrassi, Heartland, JPod, Little Mosque on the Prairie, MVP, Painkiller Jane, Ratings, Rick Mercer Report, Sophie, The Border, The Week the Women Went, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:
- Mercer Tops CBC Winter Numbers
“Numbers are in for how the CBC shows have fared over the first ten weeks of 2008 and the Rick Mercer Report stands at the top of the list, both in total households and in the 25-54-year-old demographic, CBC’s targeted demo.” Read more.
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From Pieta Woolley of the Georgia Straight:
 Producer J.B. Sugar thinks CBC made a mistake in cancelling jPod
“J.B. Sugar, one of the producers of the locally shot TV show jPod, directors and writers, thinks the CBC’s decision to axe the Douglas Coupland–based series was a mistake. He blames the CBC for failing to properly market the show, and suggested that a promotions budget should be built into government subsidies to series TV.” Read more.
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From the Toronto Sun:
- Leafs put blame on CBC shows
“CBC spokesperson Katie Heath-Eves said yesterday that all shows are ultimately renewed or dropped based on performance and there would be Canadian produced shows to eventually replace MVP and others.” Read more.
From the Barrie Examiner:
- CBC excuse a lame one
“In the first place, would the CBC really be foolish enough to count on revenue from the Leafs making the playoffs? Toronto hasn’t played a playoff game since 2004. What about ratings? Despite MVP attracting what’s being called ‘an unprecedented new youth-skewed audience’, that audience just wasn’t big enough. About 349,000 viewers tuned in during its January debut, which isn’t great. And it’s been look out below since then.” Read more.
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