Good Dog is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which aired for one season on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George Findlay, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from The Newsroom.
| Good Dog | |
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| Created by | Ken Finkleman |
| Written by | Ken Finkleman |
| Directed by | Ken Finkleman |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Production location | Canada |
| Editor | Roderick Deogrades |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | approx. 26 minutes |
| Production company | Shaftesbury Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | HBO Canada |
| Release | 6 March – 22 May 2011 |
| Related | |
| Good God (2012) | |
Overview
editGeorge Findlay (Finkleman) is a character who has been present in virtually all of Finkleman's past television projects, including The Newsroom, More Tears, Foolish Heart and Foreign Objects.[1] A self-centred and unsympathetic television producer, in Good Dog he is trying to launch a reality show about his life with his new, much younger girlfriend Claire (Lauren Lee Smith).
The series was initially renewed for a ten-episode second season, with a retooled storyline focusing on cable news.[2] However, this season was instead retitled as a new program titled Good God.[3]
Episodes
edit| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Pilot" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 6 March 2011 | |
| 2 | "Converting to Judaism" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 6 March 2011 | |
| 3 | "Jack Nicholson" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 13 March 2011 | |
| 4 | "Under the Knife" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 20 March 2011 | |
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George thinks about marketing his invention, The Fonk, the friendly honk, after another driver tears off the windshield wiper of George's car. George also considers plastic surgery. | |||||
| 5 | "Gay Sopranos" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 27 March 2011 | |
| 6 | "The Hitman" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 3 April 2011 | |
| 7 | "The Prenup" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 10 April 2011 | |
| 8 | "Madoff" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 17 April 2011 | |
| 9 | "Death by Cliche" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 24 April 2011 | |
| 10 | "Party Socks" | Ken Finkleman | Adam M. Reid & Max B. Reid and Ken Finkleman | 1 May 2011 | |
| 11 | "The Hockey Player's Wife" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 8 May 2011 | |
| 12 | "Prius" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 15 May 2011 | |
| 13 | "I Never Met a Phor I Didn't Use" | Ken Finkleman | Ken Finkleman | 22 May 2011 | |
References
edit- ^ "The Six Faces of George". The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2011.
- ^ "Samantha Bee and Lolita Davidovich join Good Dog (HBO Canada press release)". TV, eh?. 2011-09-19. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
- ^ "Good God premieres April 9 on Movie Central/The Movie Network (TMN / Movie Central press release)". TV, eh?. 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
