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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stan Douglas, Douglas Coupland, Bratsa Bonifacho, Frank Swannell, Fiona Bowie, Vikky Alexander, P. K. Page, Gordon A. Smith, Ken Lum, Rodney Graham, Aa Bronson, Ted Harrison, Sybil Andrews, Don Mabie, Ian Carr-Harris, Bob Masse, George Clutesi, Joe David, Rebecca Belmore, Steven Shearer, Paul Wong, Brian Jungen, Sara Genn, Nick Bantock, Richard Hunt, A. Traviss Corry, Frederick Alexcee, Jin-Me Yoon, Terry Starr, Sid Dickens, Clive Holden, Joseph Plaskett, Andrew Kiss, Joe Average, Robert Chaplin, Unity Bainbridge, Noah Becker, Walter J. Phillips, Eric Deis, Dempsey Bob, Ian Wallace, Aaron Carpenter, Carrie Walker, Chris Cran, Dale Campbell, Irene Whittome. Excerpt:A. Traviss Corry is a conceptual artist working in Social Media Platform Development and Activism. Social Media Projects of A. Traviss Corry.Traviss was born in Merritt, British Columbia , Canada and was raised in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island , Victoria, British Columbia . Traviss was schooled in traditional fine arts, horticultural sciences majoring in ecological restoration, electronic media design, and business. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Aaron Carpenter (Born 1976, Brandon, Manitoba) is a visual artist based in Vancouver , BC noted for his interest in language , representation, replication, and authorship. Carpenter's work has come to prominence through a series of exhibitions and projects at the Vancouver Art Gallery , Lawrence Eng Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Ministry of Casual Living, Artspeak , Or Gallery , Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and Neon Gallery. He was also previously involved as a curator at the Bodgers' and Kludgers' Co-operative Art Parlour Notes References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this ... ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Souvenir of Canada, City of Glass, Terry. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Souvenir of Canada is a 2002 book written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland. A feature film based on the book was released theatrically in 2006. In the book's introduction, Coupland states his intention was to author a book about Canada "that only Canadians would get." Souvenir of Canada is thus a book that is mostly about fairly obscure Canadian cultural matters, many of which reflect the author's own experiences growing up as a Canadian. Arranged alphabetically with some artistic exceptions, the book is a collection of essays on uniquely Canadian experiences and objects, such as bilingualism, Anglophilia, beer bottles, cigarette warning labels, Kraft macaroni and cheese, and the Trans-Canada Highway. Each item is given a witty summary by Coupland, often drawing on personal anecdotes. Most also feature a unique photographic illustration, either through stock footage or an original photo by Coupland himself. Though much of the book mocks Canadian nationalism and various national myths of Canada, Coupland states that he still considers himself patriotic. In analyzing various mundane items his intent is to show "another side" of Canadian culture that is less glamorous, but "still a part of who we are." The titles of the essays are, in order: In 2004 a sequel was released, Souvenir of Canada 2. It largely copied the format of the original, profiling new cultural artifacts. It also featured a photo essay on "Canada House," an abandoned pre-fabricated home in Vancouver that Coupland had decorated with sculptures and furniture made of items he considered to be quintessentially Canadian. The second book deviates from the format of the first book b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7026330 ... Read more

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Chapters: Haida Artists, Bill Reid, Stan Douglas, Douglas Coupland, Bratsa Bonifacho, Frank Swannell, Fiona Bowie, Vikky Alexander, P. K. Page, Gordon A. Smith, Ken Lum, Rodney Graham, Aa Bronson, Ted Harrison, Sybil Andrews, Don Mabie, Ian Carr-Harris, Bob Masse, George Clutesi, Joe David, Rebecca Belmore, Steven Shearer, Paul Wong, Charles Edenshaw, Brian Jungen, Robert Davidson, Sara Genn, Nick Bantock, Richard Hunt, A. Traviss Corry, Frederick Alexcee, Jin-Me Yoon, Terry Starr, Sid Dickens, Clive Holden, Joseph Plaskett, Andrew Kiss, Joe Average, Robert Chaplin, Unity Bainbridge, Florence Davidson, Freda Diesing, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Noah Becker, Jay Simeon, Walter J. Phillips, Reg Davidson, Eric Deis, Dempsey Bob, Ian Wallace, Aaron Carpenter, Carrie Walker, Chris Cran, Dale Campbell, Irene Whittome, Gerry Marks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 196. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:A. Traviss Corry is a conceptual artist working in Social Media Platform Development and Activism. Social Media Projects of A. Traviss Corry.Traviss was born in Merritt, British Columbia , Canada and was raised in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island , Victoria, British Columbia . Traviss was schooled in traditional fine arts, horticultural sciences majoring in ecological restoration, electronic media design, and business. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Aaron Carpenter (Born 1976, Brandon, Manitoba) is a visual artist based in Vancouver , BC noted for his interest in language , representation, replication, and authorship. Carpenter's work has come to prominence through a series of exhibitions and projects at the Vancouver Art Gallery , Lawrence Eng Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Ministry of Casual Living, Artspeak , Or Gallery , Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Dalhous... ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Microserfs, Jpod, Hey Nostradamus!, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Girlfriend in a Coma, the Gum Thief, All Families Are Psychotic, Eleanor Rigby, Generation A, Shampoo Planet, Miss Wyoming, God Hates Japan. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'. JPod was adopted as a CBC television series co-written by Douglas Coupland. It premiered on January 8, 2008, and ran until its cancellation on March 7, 2008, leaving the series with a permanent cliffhanger. The first thirteen episodes of the series aired in the United States on The CW Television Network. JPod is an avant-garde novel of six young adults assigned to the same cubicle pod at Neotronic Arts, a fictional Burnaby-based video game company, by someone in human resources through a computer glitch. Ethan Jarlewski is the novel's main character and narrator, who spends more time involved with his work than with his dysfunctional family. His stay-at-home mother runs a successful marijuana grow-op which allows his father to abandon his career and work as a futile movie extra. Ethan's realtor brother Greg involves himself with Asian crime lord Kam Fong who serves as the plot's crux of character connection. The JPod staff are required to insert a turtle character based on Jeff Probst into the skateboard game that they are developing as 'BoardX. The marketing manager, Steven Lefkowitz, mandates the turtle's addition to the game because he is trying to please his son during a custody b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3213886 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Douglas Coupland, Novels by Douglas Coupland, Short Story Collections by Douglas Coupland, Microserfs, Jpod, Hey Nostradamus!, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Girlfriend in a Coma, the Gum Thief, Life After God, All Families Are Psychotic, Eleanor Rigby, Polaroids From the Dead, Generation A, Shampoo Planet, Souvenir of Canada, Miss Wyoming, City of Glass, Terry, God Hates Japan. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:City of Glass City of Glass is a book by Canadian author Douglas Coupland , published by Douglas and McIntyre in 2000, featuring short essays and photographs of his home town of Vancouver , British Columbia . Each essay deals with a different aspect of the city, such as the glass condominium towers which dominate the Vancouver skyline and give the book its title. It also includes the short story "My Hotel Year", which first appeared in Coupland's Life After God (1994), and the essay on another Vancouver landmark, Lions' Gate Bridge , which was published in Polaroids from the Dead (1996). An updated version of the text is scheduled for release in 2009. Canadian-born artist Una Knox produced the majority of photographic images for this book.Titles of the Essays The book is broken down into essays, titled with bold section headings. The essays are alphabetical, with a few artistic insertions and juxtapositions.The essays are:abcBacklot NorthBC FerriesBeads ... Read more

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This book discusses Douglas Coupland¿¿¿s first four full-length novels: Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, and Girlfriend in a Coma. In each of these novels, Coupland contemplates the fraught relationship between Generation X and postmodern irony. Coupland¿¿¿s characters struggle to find meaning and sincerity in a realm where advertising and consumerism are ubiquitous and nearly all aspects of life are commodified. The ultimate consequence of the alienation and apathy that results from such rampant materialism is the emergence of an idiom that privileges irony over affect. For Coupland, the prevalence of this irony is the most problematic aspect of postmodern society, and it is a force his characters grapple with and resist in each of his works. Considered individually, each of Coupland¿¿¿s first four novels portrays a different subset of Generation X and a different approach to irony. Considered together, they form a trajectory that culminates in an escape from, rather than an espousal of, irony. ... Read more

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Chapters: Life After God, Polaroids From the Dead. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Life After God is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland, published in 1994. The stories are set around a theme of a generation raised without religion. The jacket for the hardcover book reads You are the first generation to be raised without religion. The text is an exploration of faith in this vacuum of religion. The stories are also illustrated by the author. These are the stories that appear in the book, in the order of appearance: (Note: All stories are told in the first person) A letter from a father to a child, this is the story of a road trip to visit their grandfather in Prince George, British Columbia. It is a contemplation of life, the meaning of life, and what it means to be a human being. This story is told in two parts. The story is told by a lonely person living in a hotel, and his interactions with some of the others that live in the hotel. The first part, Cathy, the narrator analyzes their relationship with his neighbours, Cathy and Pup-Tent, as well as his relationship to Cathy. The second part, Donny, tells the tale the narrator's relationship with Donny, a hustler, who lives a very dangerous lifestyle. A frequent stabbing victim, Donny lives for the thrill of the dangerous lifestyle. He doesn't seem to care about his well being, but still values his life. The narrator of this story is a lonely man, who pays a visit to his parents house. While there, he finds himself watching television. He sees a report about how they are planning on killing Superman. This news leaves the narrator heartbroken. The narrator contemplates the ability to fly and what it will mean if the one truly good person in the world is gone. Another story told in t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=735188 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Douglas Coupland, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Michael Ignatieff, Liste Kanadischer Schriftsteller, Judith Merril, Gordon R. Dickson, Die Kolonie Der Unerfüllten Träume, Frederick Philip Grove, Das Land Meiner Väter, Hetzjagd, Dave Duncan, Oryx Und Crake, Saturnischer Tanz, Joshua Slocum, Jeannette C. Armstrong, Mordecai Richler, Spider Robinson, Joy Fielding, Die Große Viktorianische Sammlung, Schwarzrock, Margaret Millar, Mangans Vermächtnis, Wolkenpanther, Jack Thiessen, Katherine V. Forrest, Yann Martel, Die Farbe Des Blutes, Der Blinde Mörder, Michael Ondaatje, Rory Maclean, Cory Doctorow, 28 Stories Über Aids in Afrika, Rita Joe, Rudy Wiebe, Brian Moore, Alice Munro, Anne Michaels, Robert Charles Wilson, Die Versuchung Der Eileen Hughes, Miriam Toews, Yukon International Storytelling Festival, Jane Rule, Herménégilde Chiasson, le Chandail de Hockey, Arthur Hailey, Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Timothy Findley, Charles Mair, Andrew Davidson, Wayne Johnston, Katholiken, Guy Gavriel Kay, Phyllis Gotlieb, Robert J. Sawyer, Steven Erikson, Kenneth Oppel, Ed Greenwood, Governor General's Award for Fiction, Marianne Macdonald, Marie-Claire Blais, Allan Stratton, Jane Urquhart, Pierre Morency, Catharine Parr Traill, Beth Brant, Northrop Frye, Ann-Marie Macdonald, Barbara Gowdy, Dionne Brand, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Ronald Wright, Marian Engel, Reuben Epp, Spin, Morley Callaghan, Robert W. Service, Alexander K. Dewdney, Elisabeth Bowers, Arnold Dyck, Bernice Morgan, Pauline Gedge, Raymond Hull, R. Murray Schafer, Ty Templeton, Canada Reads/le Combat Des Livres, Deborah Froese, Katzenauge, Geena Dare, George Bowering. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Douglas Coupland (pronounced COPE-lund) (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 int...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Douglas Coupland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 236. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture. Coupland currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his partner David Weir. He published his twelfth novel Generation A in 2009. He is presently working on a biography of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin's "Extraordinary Canadians" book series, an updated release of City of Glass, and a new television series, Extinction Event. He will also be the presenter of the 2011 Massey Lectures. Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 at a NATO base in Baden-Söllingen, West Germany, the second of four sons to Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas Coupland, a medic in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and homemaker C. Janet Coupland, a degree holder in comparative religion from McGill University. In 1965, the Coupland family relocated to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Coupland's father opened private family medical practice at the completion of his military tour. Coupland describes his upbringing as producing a "blank slate". "My mother comes from a sour-faced family of preachers who from the 19th century to well into the 20th scoured the prairies thumping Bibles. Her paren...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18949879 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture. ... Read more

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Chapters: Michel Tremblay, Timothy Findley, Bill Bissett, Geoff Ryman, David Rakoff, Dionne Brand, Douglas Coupland, Rinaldo Walcott, Irshad Manji, Mazo de La Roche, Robert Lepage, Alberto Manguel, Thom Fitzgerald, Daphne Marlatt, Tanya Huff, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Rita Wong, Daryl Hine, Enza Anderson, Jane Rule, Brad Fraser, Nalo Hopkinson, Orville Lloyd Douglas, Nina Arsenault, Mary Maclane, Bert Archer, Sky Gilbert, Tyler Brûlé, Sean Horlor, Robin Blaser, Daniel Macivor, Daniel Allen Cox, Marie-Claire Blais, Douglas Wilson, Stan Persky, Pierre Vallières, Douglas Lepan, Pierre Bourgault, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Tomson Highway, Richard Burnett, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Meryn Cadell, Nicole Brossard, Bill Richardson, Paul Bellini, Sandra Alland, Jeffrey Round, Bruce Labruce, Kaj Hasselriis, Erin Mouré, Sinclair Ross, Ann-Marie Macdonald, Alexander Wilson, Sky Lee, Xavier Dolan, Roland Michel Tremblay, Chandra Mayor, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Betsy Warland, Joey Comeau, Michael Maclennan, Mark Kenneth Woods, Anne Fleming, D'bi Young, Derek Mccormack, R. M. Vaughan, Carol Philipps, Mary Meigs, Trey Anthony, Shyam Selvadurai, Elliott Hayes, Evan Adams, Charles Montgomery, Anne Cameron, Gary Kinsman, David Watmough, Scott Symons, Daniel David Moses, Wayson Choy, Gilles Marchildon, Gordon Stewart Anderson, Peter Mcgehee, Alec Butler, Rachel Zolf, Billeh Nickerson, Andy Quan, Aaron Devor, Kaushalya Bannerji, David Carpenter, Morris Panych, Pat Capponi, Elizabeth Ruth, Michele Clarke, Waawaate Fobister, Makeda Silvera, Ian Stephens, Lisa B, Greg Kramer, Todd Klinck, Shani Mootoo, Brett Josef Grubisic, Shaun Proulx, Anne-Marie Alonzo, Neil Smith, Fiona Patton, William Whitehead, Marnie Woodrow, Elspeth Cameron, Alisa Palmer, Trish Salah, Sina Queyras, Jay Scott, Shawn Syms, Michel Marc Bouchard, Matthew Hays, Candas Jane Dorsey, René-Daniel Dubois, Don Hannah, David Rayside, Tom Culligan, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Brian Francis,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2508913 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from C: International Contemporary Art, published by C The Visual Arts Foundation on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 497 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The basement show: Angela Grossmann, Douglas Coupland, Derek Root, Graham Gilmore and Attila Richard Lukacs.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on May 8, 2002. The length of the article is 7606 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La segunda oportunidad: Douglas Coupland. (La Cultura en Mèxico).(TT: Second opportunity: Douglas Coupland. (culture in Mexico).)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Ricardo Muñoz Munguía
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: May 8, 2002
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Douglas Coupland, Norman Mclaren, Scott Treleaven, Patrick Fillion, Clara Sipprell, Arthur Erickson, Aa Bronson, Françoise Doherty, Bruce Labruce, Midi Onodera, Sky Lee, Attila Richard Lukacs, Mark Kenneth Woods, Richard Fung, Peter Flinsch, Dean Deblois, Joe Average, Ralph Hamelmann, Kent Monkman, Sean Martin, Colin Campbell, Noreen Stevens, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Maurice Vellekoop, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Felix Partz, Glen Hanson, Jess Dobkin, Jorge Zontal. Excerpt:AA Bronson , OC , (born Michael Tims in Vancouver in 1946) is an artist , magazine publisher and curator who co-founded the artists' group General Idea General Idea The General Idea artists group was founded in 1969 by Bronson, Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz . The three worked and lived together for 25 years, until their collaboration was terminated with the death of both Zontal and Partz in 1994. General Idea exhibited internationally in private galleries and museums in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, as well as undertaking countless temporary public art projects around the world. AA Bronson has been working independently since that time. Magazines The trio founded FILE Magazine, a visual magazine, which they edited and published from 1972 until 1989. In 1974 they founded Art Metropole , an international publisher, distributor and archive of artists' books, video and multiples, which they conceived as a 'work' by General Idea. AA Bronson was the director of Art Metropole from 1974 through 1984, and again from 1996 through 1998. Artwork AA Bronson's solo artwork deals with trauma, loss, death and healing. He had his first solo institutional exhibition outside of General Idea in 2000 at the Vienna Secession in Austria, followed closely by a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in C... ... Read more

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Rex Ray's highly collectible artwork is coveted in design as well as art circles. His color-bursting, curvaceous art graces the walls of high-design hotels, world-class museums, and hip restaurants, yet remains, as acclaimed author Douglas Coupland puts it in his foreword, "unslick, but superslick at the same time." Abstract and handcrafted, with a retro-futuristic mid-century feel, Rex Ray's meditations on fluid forms are a rare combination of sophistication and decorative appeal. The first monograph to survey his multi-faceted work in various media including paper cutouts, mixed-media collages, paintings, digital prints, and the highly admired graphic design and music packaging that launched his visual career Rex Ray is a veritable trove of his sleek yet playful aesthetic. ... Read more

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This is an excellent survey of this artist's career to date, with a post-pop-art sensibility that has a wide appeal to many age groups.This volume has very fine color reproduction showing the cut-paper pieces with great clarity.A fun book even for the casual art appreciator, lots of very creative visual stimulation. ... Read more

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JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canadain 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'.JPod was adopted as a CBC television series co-written by Douglas Coupland. It premiered on January 8, 2008, and ran until its cancellation on March 7, 2008, leaving the series with a permanent cliffhanger. The first thirteen episodes of the series aired in the United States on The CW Television Network. ... Read more