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jPod
2008 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Michael MacLennan, Douglas Coupland
jPod is a comedic television series based on Douglas Coupland’s novel of the same name. It premiered on CBC Television on January 8, 2008. Starting with the fifth episode, the show began airing Fridays at 9:00. On April 4, 2008, it was announced that the CBC had cancelled the show because of low ratings. However, all but one of the remaining episodes aired. The cancellation of jPod sparked a fan-led protest. The show's opening title theme is Flutter by Bonobo. Produced by I’m Feeling Lucky Productions for the CBC, jPod was created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. Coupland also co-wrote many of season one’s episodes.
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Might be ok for nostalgia but the software development world and the Bay Area/Seattle in general have changed so much that Microserfs would be alien to anyone living there today. His spiritual sequel, jPod, is quite a bit more fantastical. The CBC made it into a one season tv show that ends on a cliffhanger. It's about time for Coupland to write a third novel on the industry but I'm not sure he's really interested anymore.
The book, and later CBC tv show, jPod, gives a fictionalized account of how bad games get created. Douglas Coupland loves to exaggerate reality a bit but he generally does good research on the core of whatever cultural segment he is writing about.
A quick check on reelgood:
Arctic Air - Arctic Air Season 1 is not streaming nor available to rent or purchase.
jPod - jPod Season 1 is not streaming nor available to rent or purchase.
Being Erica - List several streaming services that have it, including Pluto TV, which is free/ad supported.
So three Canadian tv shows off the top of my head and there's only a 33% hit rate. That's not very good.
There was a tv version of JPod? Astonishingly it looks like there was also a movie version of Microserfs that came out in 2011, but I've never heard of it. So much of what made those two books funny were the email exchanges intermixed with the narrative--it'd be a shame to lose that in a movie adaptation.