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, ...

Detroit-area Comcast subscribers get Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sent to their cable boxes all the way from the Great White North. For the most part, this meant you could catch the Red Wings on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 - ...

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 ...