Good Dog

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
Created by	Ken Finkleman
Written by	Ken Finkleman
Directed by	Ken Finkleman
Starring	Ken Finkleman Lauren Lee Smith Jason Weinberg Ieva Lucs Steven McCarthy
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Christina Jennings Scott Garvie Ken Finkleman
Producers	Avi Federgreen Jan Peter Meyboom
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 (2011-03-06) – 22 May 2011 (2011-05-22)
Related
Good God (2012)

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

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Pilot"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	6 March 2011 (2011-03-06)
2	"Converting to Judaism"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	6 March 2011 (2011-03-06)
3	"Jack Nicholson"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	13 March 2011 (2011-03-13)
4	"Under the Knife"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	20 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 Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	27 March 2011 (2011-03-27)
6	"The Hitman"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	3 April 2011 (2011-04-03)
7	"The Prenup"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	10 April 2011 (2011-04-10)
8	"Madoff"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	17 April 2011 (2011-04-17)
9	"Death by Cliche"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	24 April 2011 (2011-04-24)
10	"Party Socks"	Ken Finkleman	Adam M. Reid & Max B. Reid and Ken Finkleman	1 May 2011 (2011-05-01)
11	"The Hockey Player's Wife"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	8 May 2011 (2011-05-08)
12	"Prius"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	15 May 2011 (2011-05-15)
13	"I Never Met a Phor I Didn't Use"	Ken Finkleman	Ken Finkleman	22 May 2011 (2011-05-22)