| Mad Dogs | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Cris Cole |
| Written by | Cris Cole Michael C. Martin Zev Borow Brett C. Leonard Eileen Myers Kent Rotherham Shawn Ryan Jon Worley |
| Directed by | Charles McDougall Uta Briesewitz Clark Johnson John David Coles Randall Einhorn Guy Ferland Alex Graves Ted Griffin Mark Piznarski Craig Zisk |
| Starring | |
| Composer(s) | Robert Duncan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Suzanne Mackie Cris Cole Andy Harries Shawn Ryan Danielle Weinstock |
| Producer(s) | Luillo Ruiz Jon Worley Ken Topolsky |
| Cinematography | Bernard Couture Raphy Molinary Nelson Cragg |
| Editor(s) | Debbie Berman David Kaldor Robert Ivison C.J. Liao Scott Pellet Robert Komatsu Amy M. Fleming |
| Running time | 40 — 56 minutes |
| Production company(s) | MiddKid Productions Cris Cole Productions Left Bank Pictures Amazon Studios Sony Pictures Television |
| Distributor | Amazon.com |
| Release | |
| Original network | Amazon Video |
| Original release | January 15, 2015 – January 22, 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Mad Dogs is a dark-comic thriller television series available for viewing on Amazon's Amazon Prime subscription service. [1] It is a partial remake of the British show, also named Mad Dogs , that aired from 2011 to 2013. [2]
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Mad Dogs is a British psychological thriller television series, written and created by Cris Cole, that began airing on Sky1 on 10 February 2011, and ended on 29 December 2013 after four series and 14 episodes. It is produced by Left Bank Pictures, and co-produced by Palma Pictures. The series stars John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley, and Philip Glenister as four long-time and middle-aged friends getting together in a villa in Majorca to celebrate the early retirement of their friend Alvo. After Alvo is murdered, the group find themselves caught up in the world of crime and police corruption.
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The show's first season consisted of 10 episodes, [1] expanding on the British version's first season's four hours of content. [3] It began airing on January 22, 2016 in the U.S., U.K., and Germany, [4] with an early release of the show available in December 2015. [5]
The plot is a "cocktail of testosterone and bad decision-making", [2] focused on the angst of a group of 40-something underachieving American men who become caught in a "vacation from hell". [1] [4] [6]
The cast is a unique blend of film actors with mostly episodic television credits to their name, [7] including Billy Zane as a man wealthy from underworld connections who invites his friends for a stay in Belize, Michael Imperioli as an irresponsible but good-hearted former traveling musician, Romany Malco as a family man, and Ben Chaplin (who starred in the Zane role in the UK version of the show) as an embittered teacher. [1] [2] [3] The show's female cast, including Allison Tolman and María Botto (reprising her role from the UK series), provide contrast to the male leads. [1] [2] [6]
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Michael Imperioli is an American actor, writer and director best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He also appeared in the TV drama series Law & Order as NYPD Detective Nick Falco. Imperioli spent the 2008-2009 television season as Detective Ray Carling in the US version of Life on Mars. He was starring as Detective Louis Fitch in the ABC police drama Detroit 1-8-7 until its cancellation. He wrote and directed his first feature film, The Hungry Ghosts, in 2008. In 2015, he starred in Mad Dogs, a dark-comic thriller television series available for viewing on Amazon's Amazon Prime subscription service in the U.S and on Shomi in Canada.
Romany Romanic Malco Jr. is an American actor, voice actor, and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Malco portrayed Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds. He most recently played George St. Cloud on the ABC primetime one-hour drama No Ordinary Family. He is also known for writing the rap lyrics for the character of MC Skat Kat in "Opposites Attract".
Showrunner Cris Cole adapted the show from his own drama in the UK. [1] It was originally under development at the FX network. [8] Cole noted that because the American version is 10 hours to the British version's first season's four hours, the last six hours of the American version are "virgin territory" and have no comparative to the original. [3]
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Cris Cole is a British writer and producer, born in Wallingford, England. He grew up in London and attended Elliott Comprehensive School in Roehampton, London.
Rights to air the show were sold by Sony Pictures Television for more than 140 countries prior to the initial Amazon airing. [4]
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In late February 2016, Amazon announced that it had opted not to renew the series. [9] Although the original intention had been for the show to be a 10 episode limited series, Amazon and the show leadership had broached the idea of a potential second season. [9]
During filming of scenes of the pilot episode in Puerto Rico, actor Steve Zahn contracted dengue fever. [10]
