Ways To Save jPod

The CBC has decided to cancel jPod. This is unfortunate because it is the first high-quality show that the CBC has put out in years. The first three episodes of the first season were not so great. It got its legs after that and found its biting satire. Unfortunately, the CBC had moved the show from its Tuesday time slot to Friday nights. They effectively sealed its fate.

There are a few ways that jPod can still be saved. Raugi Yu, the actor that plays Kam Fong, posted to the following message to the jPod group on Facebook:

Dear Friends,

Hi all, Raugi Yu here. I got the call yesterday about it. At first I was upset and disappointed and immediately thought of the great times and experiences I had shooting jPod and how much I would take from that…There was one problem though…I kept wondering why. Why not have a season 2? I started to hear what others were saying. I heard anger, resentment and frustration. So many of you my friends along with thousands, yes thousands, of strangers have expressed outrage over the cancellation of jPod.

I became angry too.

One may think that, “Sure, I’d be angry too if I lost a steady gig like that”. Well that’s not what I’m angry about. Gigs come and go. It is no huge hardship for me to go back to auditioning and booking and living my life as an actor. It is my passion. No. It angers me that the CBC our nation’s television station (yes I know among other things) chooses to cancel a show that is so cutting edge, fun, smart and CANADIAN. So many viewers have gleaned joy from watching jPod week after week. We look forward to it; I dare say we yearn for it.

I’m a pretty chilled out go with the flow kind of guy, but I recognize that there are times in my life when I’ve got to fight. In surveying the land I recognize that I need a lot of help.

Please call CBC at: 1-866-306-4636, choose option 1 for English programming and choose option 1 again for the “Attendant” then ask for “Audience Services”. Audience Services will answer and at that point tell them how you feel about jPod being cancelled and how you would like to see a season 2.
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E-mail them at http://www.cbc.ca/contact/

I alone can reach out to all of you and if all of you can reach out to even 2 other people and we get that people ball rolling…we could possibly be jamming up some phone lines at CBC.

Am I being naïve and hopeful? I hope so; it feels better than lying down and taking it.

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate all of you for watching the show and for all the great things you’ve all been saying about it. I send my love to you all and just to be clear, that love stays whether you phone, e-mail, write or not.

Thank you all,
Raugi Yu
A.K.A Kam Fong