Category: jPod
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MVP: Most Vindicated Player?
Back in January, I blogged here about the new hockey soap MVP, having done a little work on the pilot a year prior. I called it “big, stupid, nasty, trashy fun”, and wondered if the CBC could handle such a show. Of course, we know now that it couldn’t. As usually happens, there was some…
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Did the Leafs Kill jPod, Can Kam Fong save it?
The blog Fan IQ is speculating that it is the Toronto Maple Leafs that are responsible for Killing the CBC programs jPod, MVP and Intelligence. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has axed the shows MVP, JPod and Intelligence because with the Leafs not likely to make the Stanley Cup playoffs this year, the public broadcaster’s arts…
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CBC axes Intelligence, jPod, MVP
According to the Globe and Mail the CBC is axing the contentious Chris Haddock program Intelligence for next season along with MVP and (my personal favorite recent CBC show) jPod. No announcement has been made about what will replace any of them. It should be noted that Intelligence is apparently being re-created for Fox television…
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Mixed Reactions to New CBC Shows
jPod Canadian Press: Alan Thicke a hoot as the boozing, degenerate father figure on CBC’s ‘JPod’ Toronto Star:CBC has a winner in jPod Montreal Gazette:Radical rethink at CBC coughs up some seriously clichéd comedy The Vancouver Province: jPod set squarely in Couplandia National Post: Not quite a step up the Kitchener Waterloo Record: CBC’s jPOD…
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You Should Be Watching jPod
jPod is my favorite new CBC show since This Is Wonderland. I just wanted to get that out of the way quickly to make sure it was clear. Admittedly I am not much of a TV person, coming into the fall Television season I was down to a mere handfull of shows that I watched…
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New CBC TV Shows for January
The CBC has a whack of new shows coming in January. I had hoped to post Trailers for them, but in classic CBC style the only trailer they have on YouTube is for the least interesting of the bunch. There was a spat during the fall between intelligence creator Chris Haddock and the CBC because…