Good Dog
title: "Good Dog" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2010s-canadian-comedy-drama-television-series", "2011-canadian-television-series-debuts", "2011-canadian-television-series-endings", "2010s-canadian-satirical-television-series", "television-shows-set-in-toronto", "television-shows-filmed-in-toronto", "television-series-by-shaftesbury-films", "hbo-(canadian-tv-channel)-original-programming", "television-series-created-by-ken-finkleman"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Dog" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| creator | Ken Finkleman |
| writer | Ken Finkleman |
| director | Ken Finkleman |
| starring | |
| country | Canada |
| language | English |
| num_episodes | 13 |
| executive_producer | |
| producer | |
| location | Canada |
| editor | Roderick Deogrades |
| camera | Single-camera |
| runtime | approx. 26 minutes |
| company | Shaftesbury Films |
| network | HBO Canada |
| first_aired | |
| last_aired | |
| related | Good God (2012) |
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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.
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. 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. However, this season was instead retitled as a new program titled Good God.
Episodes
| EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = Pilot | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = Converting to Judaism | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = Jack Nicholson | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = Under the Knife | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = 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. | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = Gay Sopranos | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = The Hitman | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = The Prenup | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = Madoff | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = Death by Cliche | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = Party Socks | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Adam M. Reid & Max B. Reid and Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = The Hockey Player's Wife | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = Prius | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF | EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = I Never Met a Phor I Didn't Use | DirectedBy = Ken Finkleman | WrittenBy = Ken Finkleman | OriginalAirDate = | ShortSummary = | LineColor = 3198FF
References
References
- [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/ken-finkleman-explains-good-dogs-george/article1930084/ "The Six Faces of George"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 4, 2011.
- (2011-09-19). "Samantha Bee and Lolita Davidovich join Good Dog (HBO Canada press release)". TV, eh?.
- (2012-03-20). "Good God premieres April 9 on Movie Central/The Movie Network (TMN / Movie Central press release)". TV, eh?.
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