Good Dog

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Good Dog
Created by Ken Finkleman
Written byKen Finkleman
Directed byKen Finkleman
Starring
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Avi Federgreen
  • Jan Peter Meyboom
Production locationCanada
EditorRoderick Deogrades
Camera setup Single-camera
Running timeapprox. 26 minutes
Production company Shaftesbury Films
Release
Original network
Original release6 March (2011-03-06) 
22 May 2011 (2011-05-22)
Related
Good God (2012)

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 .

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Overview

George 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

#TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Pilot"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman6 March 2011 (2011-03-06)
2"Converting to Judaism"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman6 March 2011 (2011-03-06)
3"Jack Nicholson"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman13 March 2011 (2011-03-13)
4"Under the Knife"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman20 March 2011 (2011-03-20)
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 FinklemanKen Finkleman27 March 2011 (2011-03-27)
6"The Hitman"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman3 April 2011 (2011-04-03)
7"The Prenup"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman10 April 2011 (2011-04-10)
8"Madoff"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman17 April 2011 (2011-04-17)
9"Death by Cliche"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman24 April 2011 (2011-04-24)
10"Party Socks"Ken FinklemanAdam M. Reid & Max B. Reid and Ken Finkleman1 May 2011 (2011-05-01)
11"The Hockey Player's Wife"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman8 May 2011 (2011-05-08)
12"Prius"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman15 May 2011 (2011-05-15)
13"I Never Met a Phor I Didn't Use"Ken FinklemanKen Finkleman22 May 2011 (2011-05-22)

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References

  1. "The Six Faces of George". The Globe and Mail , March 4, 2011.
  2. "Samantha Bee and Lolita Davidovich join Good Dog (HBO Canada press release)". TV, eh?. 2011-09-19. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
  3. "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.