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.

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.

David Kopp as Ethan Jarlewski.

From Lee-Anne Goodman of the Canadian Press:

• Alan Thicke a hoot in ‘JPod’
  “‘I read the script and thought this looks familiar in a very unfamiliar kind of way, in a perverse kind of way,’ Thicke says of JPod, based on the Douglas Coupland novel about a group of disgruntled video game programmers in Vancouver.” Read more.

Alan Thicke as Jim Jarlewski in JPod.