19 September 2010 on HBO Canada
Jason Priestly stars in this adult comedy as a used car salesman who has a thing for the glory days of the Rat Pack. If you meet him he will tell you to "Call Me Fitz" but his name is Richard Fitzpatrick.
Where Call Me Fitz deviates from the norm is not in its casting or in its extreme profanity. It is much more fundamental than that. After recovering from a horrible crash over a cliff during a test-drive that leaves a customer in a comma Fitz finds there is a new guy at the dealership. Larry. Larry is a brilliant salesman and Ken loves that. Larry claims that he is the embodiment of Fitz' suppressed conscience.
Call Me Fitz also stars Peter MacNeill (rookie blue, Queer As Folk, the pilot of Republic Of Doyle) as Ken Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Munroe (Durham County, Beautiful People) as Ali Devon, Tracy Dawson (The Gavin Crawford Show, Wild Card) as Fitz' sister Meghan, Donavon Stinson (Reaper, Three Moons Over Milford) as Josh McTaggart, Brooke Nevin (Breakout Kings, skin, the 4400) as Sonja Lester, Huse Madhavji (Saving Hope, Combat Hospital) as Ruptal 1, Shaun Shetty (Fringe, The Bridge) as Ruptal 2, Jonathan Torrens (Trailer Park Boys, Degrassi: The Next Generation) as Chester Vince, Amy Sloan (Gilmore girls, Big Shots) as Dot Foxley, and Gabrielle Miller (Pasadena, Robson Arms, Corner Gas) as Melody Gray
Call Me Fitz was created and is executive produced by Sheri Elwood (Flash Forward, Ready or Not, The Jane Show) and comes from Entertainment One, big motion pictures, Amaze Film + Television, in association with Movie Central and The Movie Network. and Mandeville Films. Scott Smith (Paradise Falls, this is wonderland, godiva's) directed the pilot.
The show is set somewhere 'this side of Detroit' which is not that far from an Amish community. Though made and austensibly set in Canada the show is full of ambiguity with a favour to implying it is in the United States. The creator of the show and i got in a bit of a tiff about this. I picked a random episode and pointed out all of the Americanisms found in it. Turns out she wrote that episode. She had no response.