Based, somewhat loosely off of Douglas Coupland's novel jPod, CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) unveiled jPod last night.
jPod website on CBC
jPod Wikipedia Link
I quite enjoyed it :thumbsup: ... though I don't suppose it was broadcast to the American audience, it might worth a download for the more computer-oriented types that inhabit these boards.
Series synopsis:
"Based on Douglas Coupland's cult bestseller of the same name, jPod is a one-hour drama series with amusing and evil twists. Ethan Jarlewski (DAVID W. KOPP) and four coworker pals are bureaucratically marooned in the bowels of a massive video game company, Neotronic Arts.
The series chronicles the amoral, lighthearted and often shocking lives of these five "Podsters." In Season One alone, they routinely deal with Chinese gangs, boneheaded bosses, sexual swinging, power lesbians, British royalty, gore-laced game designs and ...it's a very long list.
jPod also follows the lives of Ethan's seemingly ultra normal parents, Jim (ALAN THICKE) and Carol Jarlewski (SHERRY MILLER). Jim and Carol are the new post-middle class, now enmeshed in marijuana grow-ops, biker gangs and ballroom dancing.
jPod is ultimately about the new relationships and modes of being that we, as citizens of this strange new century, are creating as we move forward. There is no map into the unknown, but we do have these five kids and a lot of heart and dark humor.
jPod stars David W. Kopp, Emilie Ullerup, Steph Song, Ben Ayres, Torrance Coombs, Sherry Miller and Alan Thicke. Produced by No Equal Entertainment for CBC Canada, jPod is created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. Larry Sugar, Douglas Coupland and J.B. Sugar are executive producers; Matthew Chipera is producer. Series writers are Douglas Coupland, J.B. Sugar, Daegan Fryklind, Dennis Heaton and Michael MacLennan. Episodic directors are Mike Clattenburg, Brad Turner, J.B. Sugar, Tim Southam, Peter Deluise, Rachel Tallalay and Kristoffer Tabori."
jPod website on CBC
jPod Wikipedia Link
I quite enjoyed it :thumbsup: ... though I don't suppose it was broadcast to the American audience, it might worth a download for the more computer-oriented types that inhabit these boards.
Series synopsis:
"Based on Douglas Coupland's cult bestseller of the same name, jPod is a one-hour drama series with amusing and evil twists. Ethan Jarlewski (DAVID W. KOPP) and four coworker pals are bureaucratically marooned in the bowels of a massive video game company, Neotronic Arts.
The series chronicles the amoral, lighthearted and often shocking lives of these five "Podsters." In Season One alone, they routinely deal with Chinese gangs, boneheaded bosses, sexual swinging, power lesbians, British royalty, gore-laced game designs and ...it's a very long list.
jPod also follows the lives of Ethan's seemingly ultra normal parents, Jim (ALAN THICKE) and Carol Jarlewski (SHERRY MILLER). Jim and Carol are the new post-middle class, now enmeshed in marijuana grow-ops, biker gangs and ballroom dancing.
jPod is ultimately about the new relationships and modes of being that we, as citizens of this strange new century, are creating as we move forward. There is no map into the unknown, but we do have these five kids and a lot of heart and dark humor.
jPod stars David W. Kopp, Emilie Ullerup, Steph Song, Ben Ayres, Torrance Coombs, Sherry Miller and Alan Thicke. Produced by No Equal Entertainment for CBC Canada, jPod is created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. Larry Sugar, Douglas Coupland and J.B. Sugar are executive producers; Matthew Chipera is producer. Series writers are Douglas Coupland, J.B. Sugar, Daegan Fryklind, Dennis Heaton and Michael MacLennan. Episodic directors are Mike Clattenburg, Brad Turner, J.B. Sugar, Tim Southam, Peter Deluise, Rachel Tallalay and Kristoffer Tabori."
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