Good Dog | |
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Created by | Ken Finkleman |
Written by | Ken Finkleman |
Directed by | Ken Finkleman |
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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 |
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Original release | 6 March – 22 May 2011 |
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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 .
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]
# | 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 | |
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 |
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