On March 7, the CBC cancelled two big-name–backed, made-in-B.C. shows: jPod, based on the Douglas Coupland book, and Intelligence, by Chris Haddock. The decision was based entirely on viewership, ...

One of the questions Douglas Coupland gets asked most frequently at his idiosyncratic public events (as much performance art as literary readings) is what happened to the proposed film of Microserfs - ...

Look out, here's another one. For the second consecutive night, CBC launches a new drama. The official announcement from the Corp - always compelling reading, utterly lacking in subtext of any kind - ...

I'm standing on the dance floor of the Polish Community Centre in the Mount Pleasant area of Vancouver. Alan Thicke is telling me a story, but I'm not quite following it. It's something about a CBC ...

Canadian author Douglas Coupland, who wrote his first film screenplay with last year's Everything's Gone Green, has written a new TV series based on his novel, JPod. The 13-part series will be a look ...

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, ...

Douglas Coupland’s 2006 novel jPod concerns the lives of a group of Vancouver twentysomethings working at a video-game developer called Neotronic Arts. It’s a thinly veiled reference to Electronic ...

In the opening pages of Douglas Coupland’s “JPod” (Bloomsbury, 448 pages, $24.95), Ethan Jarlewski and his co-workers are reeling after having just been informed that they must incorporate a ...

VIDEO game programmer Ethan Jarlewski and five of his colleagues are stuck in the JPod, a dead zone outpost of a mindless technology corporation. Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again ...