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In the news: New mid-season shows

Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Record lists what’s coming up on TV, including Canadian fare:

  • TV’s Mid-winter Blitz: Reality, replacement and Canadian newbies launch over next 12 weeks
    “Some are midseason replacement series sitting in storage for months, some are in-the-can cable shows airing here well after their U.S. playdates, some are reality shows that, because they’re unscripted, escape the scrutiny of the powerful writers’ union and some are — gasp — Canadian, which may be one of the few times living north of the 49th parallel holds an advantage in terms of TV programming.” Read more.
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In the news: Gamers on TV in jPod

Yvonne Zacharias of the Vancouver Sun interviews some jPodders:

  • Gamers rule the screen in new series
    “Someone had to write a television series based on a group of video game designers. And what better place for that story to be set than in Vancouver, one of the video game capitals of North America? CBC Television’s jPod, a 13-part series, has all the requisite hyper characters and hyped-up plot to reflect the adrenaline-driven and eclectic world of gamers.” Read more.
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In the news: jPod comes to more than just your TV

Marke Andrews of the Vancouver Sun reports on the ancilliary activities around CBC’s new series jPod:

  • jPod – CBC wants you to see the show, read the blogs, play the game
    “When the Vancouver-shot series – based on Vancouver author Douglas Coupland’s novel set at a huge video game corporation – debuts Tuesday, potential viewers can have a jump on it through the show’s website at www.cbc.ca/jpod. There they’ll find virtual sets, blogs of the fictional characters, jPod video games, and an eBay “jPod neighbourhood” where any consumer product directly or even faintly related to the show can be viewed and purchased.” Read more.

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David Kopp as Ethan Jarlewski.

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Upcoming series: True Pulp Murder, Global, Jan. 5

True Crime Documentary Series Debuting

Saturday, January 5 at 10:30 P.M. ET/PT on Global Television

Canada’s leading homicide investigators and crime novelists agree on one thing: Fact is stranger than fiction. The truth is at its most chilling and compelling in TRUE PULP MURDER, a new original series from Make Believe Media, debuting Saturday January 5, 2008 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on Global Television.

Each episode of TRUE PULP MURDER pairs a homicide investigator with one real life author and our fictional graphic novelist. Together they dissect and bring to audiences an assortment of real life murders and their resolutions. Drawn from the case files of the actual cops who solved the mysteries, each episode unravels one macabre mystery in this 13 x 30 series.

TRUE PULP MURDER marries graphic novel stylings with commentary by crime writers. It allows viewers to see the actual events from the point of view of detectives who worked the case, fiction writers who wrote similar stories and a sexy, film noir-ish narrator. It is one part documentary, one part graphic novel, and one part hard-bitten detective drama.

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