Call Me Fitz
| Call Me Fitz | |
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| Genre | Black Comedy |
| Created by | Sheri Elwood |
| Starring |
Jason Priestley Ernie Grunwald Peter MacNeill Kathleen Munroe Tracy Dawson Donavan Stinson Brooke Nevin |
| Composer(s) | Richard Pell Dylan Heming |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 48 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Henry Normal Noreen Halpern |
| Location(s) | New Minas, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Running time | 26-28 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Baby Cow Productions |
| Distributor | Entertainment One Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
HBO Canada (season 1-3) Movie Central (Western Canada, season 4) The Movie Network (Eastern Canada, season 4) |
| Original release | September 19, 2010 – December 2, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Call Me Fitz is a Canadian television series produced by E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film & Television, and Big Motion Pictures. The half-hour comedy stars Jason Priestley as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a morally bankrupt used-car salesman whose consequence-free life is complicated by the arrival of do-gooder Larry (Ernie Grunwald), another salesman who claims he is Fitz's conscience.
The series is co-produced by Movie Central (western Canada) and The Movie Network (central/eastern Canada), for airing on those two channels and their jointly-owned channel HBO Canada (Canada wide). The first thirteen-episode season of the show premiered on HBO Canada in September 2010, with subsequent seasons premiering in September 2011, 2012, and October 2013.
The series is filmed in New Minas, Nova Scotia.
The show stars Priestley as Richard Fitzpatrick, a used-car salesman walking a fine line of acceptable behaviour on the lot alongside a new salesman, do-gooder Larry, who claims to be the embodiment of his conscience. Fitz's idealisation of Frank Sinatra and his dysfunctional family have shaped him into the cocksure anti-hero he is proud to be. Fitz's ambition is to get out of 'slinging tin' at his family's used car dealership and open his own lounge, the Summerwind. In the mean time he is content to make the Duncan Underwood Inn his watering hole. Fitz does not like the Ruptal cousins, whom he refers to as "9" and "11", and their used-car dealership across the street from Fitzpatrick Motors.
Fitz hits rock bottom when he crashes a GT while on a test drive and the customer ends up in a coma. Fitz meets Ali while in jail and at first believes her to be his lawyer until she says "mom", referring to Fitz's customer in the coma. In an attempt to avoid a pending attempted vehicular manslaughter charge Fitz decides to marry Babs, who comes out of her coma just in time to get married. Ali admits her attraction to Fitz after her mother tells him she wants a divorce and while they are making out in her car Ali accidentally steps on the accelerator and drives into and kills her mother.
In season two Fitz's attempts to open the Summerwind are thwarted by city council and Fitz is the prime suspect in the disappearance and suspected homicide of Sonja. Fitz decides to run for city council in season three. The news that Ali is pregnant with his baby does little to inspire Fitz to change his ways. Through an unfortunate series of mishaps Fitz ends up as mayor of Coverton. Fitz's rampant promiscuity is matched only by his corruption, which eventually lands him in prison. Fitz breaks out of prison just as Ali goes into labour.
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