Award-winning writer and producer Ken Finkleman (The Newsroom) returns to television in Good Dog, his highly anticipated new comedy produced by Shaftesbury in association with Astral's The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment's Movie Central. Starring Finkleman and Lauren Lee Smith (CSI; The L Word), the sharply ironic series focuses on the life of George, a self-absorbed, neurotic TV producer. After hooking up with Claire, a gorgeous model half his age, George negotiates his new reality dating a younger woman by pitching a reality show about his high concept, highly coveted, seriously volatile life. But when network executives insist that Claire move into his house, George is forced to escalate the relationship and consequently, his fears of commitment. When the pitch and his life go sideways, he frets, vents and reevaluates by soliciting questionable advice from his best friend Doug (Jason Weinberg). Finkleman is renowned as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC/PBS series The Newsroom, a biting satire that mined the darkly humorous world of broadcast news. The series also aired on Sky in the UK and other networks worldwide, and was awarded with an International Emmy for Best Comedy Series in 2005. Finkleman also produced Married Life (Comedy Central, Atlantis Films) and Foolish Heart, Foreign Objects, More Tears and At The Hotel for the CBC, and wrote screenplays for a number of Hollywood films in the 1980s, including Airplane II.
Starring Lauren Lee Smith, Ken Finkleman, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Krill, Lisa Ryder, Jefferson Brown, Meghan Heffern, Jordyn Negri, Paul Essiembre, Jordan Prentice, Kathleen Laskey, Laura Miyata, Noah Dalton Danby, Martin Roach, Linda Kash, A.C. Peterson, Laura de Carteret, Keon Alexander, Dylan Bierk, Joey Klein, Dylan Taylor, Kristi Angus, Seann Gallager, patrice Goodman, Steven McCarthy, Michelle Arviau, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Ian Matthews, Matthew Tissi, Tammy Isbell, Imali Perera, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Kevin Jubinville, Christine Tizzard, Jasmin Geljo, Sonya Cote, Jeff Pangman, Kirsten Bishop, Lindsay Owen Pierre, Natalie Radford, Jameson Kraemer, Matt Smith, Dru Viergever, Doug MacLeod, Jacob Richter, Matt Bois, Jason Weinberg, Paolo Mancini, Sam Moses, David Fraser, Michael Dyson, Damir Andrei, Sharon McFarlane, Hardee T. Lineham, Colin Doyle, Kathleen Phillips, Rbecca Northan, Al Maini, Dominic Cuzzocrea, Barbara Radecki, Scott Edgecombe, Melissa Kramer, Jamie Jones, Joel Rinzler, Scott Gorman, Shawn C. Orr, Voctor Gomez, Kevin Whalen, Richard Davis, Jack Newman, Liza Balkan, Max Reid, Ieva Lucs, A.M. Reid, Ian Warburton, John Kalangis, Jan Filips, Andre Sills, Marcia Diamond, Sal Figliomeni, Hal Eisen, Odeen Eccleston, Roger McKeen, Danny MacDonald, Anne Yorke, Sarah Scotford, Abe Cohen, Jeff Glickman, Douglas Bell, Peter Sawyer, Christian Kelley, Walter Rinaldi, Noah Klar, Howard Pressburger, Marley Rooz, Sidney Cohen, Michelle Soicher
Directed by Ken Finkleman, Written by Ken Finkleman, A.M. Reid, Max Reid, Adriana Maggs, Produced by Avi Federgreen, Jan Peter Meyboom, Executive Producers Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie