Marty
07-10-2008, 08:18 PM
“DogTown,” the National Geographic Channel series about animal rehabilitation, is guaranteed to get press for its second-season premiere.
The episode, on Sept. 5, is titled “Saving the Michael Vick Dogs,” and follows the healing and training of four pit bulls removed from the football star’s property. The animals were held in an illegal dog-fighting operation until police discovered it in April 2007.
One of the dogs, named Georgia, appeared on stage at the summer press tour of the Television Critics Association on Wednesday.
“There’s no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners,” John Garcia, the lead trainer for the mistreated dogs, told reporters.
The two-hour season premiere tracks the rehabilitation of Georgia and three other pit bulls. The rest of the series introduces other dogs who arrive at Dogtown, a “no-kill animal facility” in Utah.
“It’s such a pleasure to work on a series where the stories don’t repeat themselves,” Darcy Dennett, the series producer, said. “The dogs that come to Dogtown come from lots of different situations and backgrounds. There hasn’t been a story yet that has repeated itself.”
Later in the season, episodes feature dogs rescued amid Hurricane Katrina and the Israel-Lebanon war.
The National Geographic Channel is already well known for dog shows, the most popular of which is about Cesar Millan, who is better known as “The Dog Whisperer.” According to Aaron Barnhart of The Kansas City Star, the new episodes of “Dogtown” will arrive “just in time for Nat Geo, which has gotten a lot of mileage out of Cesar Millan and the ‘Dog Whisperer’ but is clearly ready for something else.”
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/more-evidence-that-people-like-to-watch-poignant-shows-about-cute-dogs/
The episode, on Sept. 5, is titled “Saving the Michael Vick Dogs,” and follows the healing and training of four pit bulls removed from the football star’s property. The animals were held in an illegal dog-fighting operation until police discovered it in April 2007.
One of the dogs, named Georgia, appeared on stage at the summer press tour of the Television Critics Association on Wednesday.
“There’s no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners,” John Garcia, the lead trainer for the mistreated dogs, told reporters.
The two-hour season premiere tracks the rehabilitation of Georgia and three other pit bulls. The rest of the series introduces other dogs who arrive at Dogtown, a “no-kill animal facility” in Utah.
“It’s such a pleasure to work on a series where the stories don’t repeat themselves,” Darcy Dennett, the series producer, said. “The dogs that come to Dogtown come from lots of different situations and backgrounds. There hasn’t been a story yet that has repeated itself.”
Later in the season, episodes feature dogs rescued amid Hurricane Katrina and the Israel-Lebanon war.
The National Geographic Channel is already well known for dog shows, the most popular of which is about Cesar Millan, who is better known as “The Dog Whisperer.” According to Aaron Barnhart of The Kansas City Star, the new episodes of “Dogtown” will arrive “just in time for Nat Geo, which has gotten a lot of mileage out of Cesar Millan and the ‘Dog Whisperer’ but is clearly ready for something else.”
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/more-evidence-that-people-like-to-watch-poignant-shows-about-cute-dogs/