Ring-a-Ding-Ding Baby…He's Back!! Second Season of "Call Me Fitz" Premieres on DIRECTV's Audience Network November 3
Critically Acclaimed, Award-Winning Comedy Starring Jason
Priestley Will Air Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Television's most lovable scoundrel returns when Call Me Fitz
begins its second season on Thursday, November 3 at 9:30 p.m.
ET/PT, exclusively on DIRECTV's Audience Network. Jason Priestley (My
Name is Earl, Beverly Hills 90210) stars in this dark yet brilliant
comedy series as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a morally bankrupt, yet
charismatic, used-car salesman who is forced to become business partners
with his inner "conscience" — a lanky do-gooder named Larry. Priestley
has earned rave reviews and multiple award nominations for his
performance as Fitz, the handsome, substance-abusing scoundrel who
torments his naive co-workers, stoops to shameful lows to beat the
competition and makes no apologies for his shameless womanizing.
The start of the second season finds Fitz incapacitated by a series of
recurring nightmares in which he is shackled to a wheel of death before
a shadowy, knife-throwing figure — who may or may not be the new office
manager Dot Foxley. Ever the pragmatist, Larry believes Fitz is simply
anxious about not being able to sell cars, a theory quickly discarded
after a psychic tells Fitz the nightmare is actually a prophecy. Unless
Fitz makes amends to the "person he's wronged", he is marked to die.
The ensemble cast includes Ernie Grunwald as Larry,
Fitz's so-called conscience; Peter MacNeill as Ken
Fitzpatrick, Fitz' father and patriarch of Fitzpatrick Motors; Tracy
Dawson as Meghan Fitzpatrick, Fitz's shrewish younger sister
and thorn in his side; Donavon Stinson as Josh
Mctaggart, the Fitzpatrick Motors in-house mechanic; and Brooke
Nevin as Sonja Lester, Fitzpatrick Motors' receptionist and
Fitz's former love interest. Amy Sloan joins the cast
as Dot Foxley, the new office manager who has an inexplicable hate for
Larry, a penchant for witchcraft and a miniature model of Fitzpatrick
Motors (complete with Fitz and Larry voodoo dolls) hidden in her
apartment.
Nominated for 16 Gemini Awards for its first season, Call Me
Fitz recently took home seven trophies, the most of any comedy
or drama series this year. Wins include: Best Performance by an Actor in
a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series (Ernie
Grunwald); Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading
Comedic Role (Tracy Dawson); Best Performance by an Actress
in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series (Rachel
Blanchard); Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series; and Best
Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series . The
series was also nominated for four Golden Nymph Awards at the
prestigious Monte Carlo Television Festival, including two nominations
for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (Jason Priestley and Ernie
Grunwald) and two nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
(Brooke Nevin and Kathleen Munroe).
The series, which debuted on HBO Canada in Fall 2010 and on DIRECTV in
April 2011, became an instant success, drawing high ratings and
garnering glowing reviews. Call Me Fitz has been sold to fourteen
international broadcasters and will be seen in over 60 countries
world-wide. The complete first season is currently available on DVD and
contains special bonus features including The Genesis of Fitz, blooper
reels and a sneak peek of season two. The series was created by Sheri
Elwood and then developed by Amaze Film + Television and is produced by
Amaze, Big Motion Pictures and Entertainment One, with the participation
of The Movie Network and Movie Central. Executive Produced by Sheri
Elwood, who is also the series Show Runner.
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About DIRECTV's Audience Network
Audience Network, DIRECTV's exclusive entertainment channel, is a unique
television experience available exclusively to DIRECTV subscribers. The
channel first made its mark as in 2008 by partnering with NBC to produce
and air three additional seasons of the Emmy Award-winning series Friday
Night Lights and more recently becoming the exclusive home of the
critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning drama Damages, with Glenn Close
and Rose Byrne. As a result, Audience Network has become the premiere
destination for diverse, quality and critically-acclaimed programming.
Audience Network is a blend of daring, innovative series, hit programs
from across the globe being discovered by US audiences for the first
time, concert specials from A-list artists, and the annual DIRECTV
Celebrity Beach Bowl.
DIRECTV, Inc.
Cara Brugnoli, 212-205-0887
cmbrugnoli@directv.com
Source: DIRECTV
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