Wilfred (TV series)

History and overview

"Wilfred" the series is based on the original short film Tropfest winner of best comedy in 2002. This also starred its creators, Adam Zwar and Jason Gann, Gann winning best actor at the Tropfest awards. The story of "Wilfred" is based on a bad date that Adam's friend went on.

Each episode follows the story about a girl, Sarah, her dog, Wilfred and Sarah's new boyfriend, Adam. After Sarah and Adam's first date, Adam goes home with Sarah and Adam meets a scruffy dog, who only Adam sees as a person, dressed blatantly in a dog costume. The dog develops a grudge on his owner's new boyfriend and tests out to see if he is capable of being his new 'daddy. So an unsuspecting Adam who is keen on winning Sarah's heart has Wilfred to contend with.

A compilation of all 8 episodes of Wilfred was released on DVD in Australia by SBS in April 2007.

Characters

Wilfred (Jason Gann)

Wilfred is Sarah's dog, charmed by his arrogance and self-righteousness, his falsehoods and misguided passions. Wilfred is insecure and manipulative to boyfriends of his lonely owner, he will stop at nothing to win the love and affection he desires. Although his methods may sometimes be underhand, his innocence and purity of heart can never be questioned. He has a lot of love to give and expects a lot in return. And he won’t let any one stand in his way of getting what he sees as his. Wilfred has the characteristics of a normal human being; he smokes (marijuana and tobacco), urinates like a male and talks, although this may only work with Adam and Sarah's previous boyfriends.

Adam (Adam Zwar)

Adam is Sarah's short-term boyfriend. He doesn't cause any trouble and trouble rarely comes his way - that is until he meets Wilfred. When Adam hooks-up with Sarah, he thinks all his Christmases have come at once. Sarah is the ultimate package: attractive, intelligent, and with her own place. Adam tries to be friends with Wilfred but in return receives only very few words of gratitude and ends up being a victim of Wilfred's plots to sabotage he and Sarah's relationship. Throughout the time he lives in Sarah's home, the two begin a psychological war to be Sarah's “special little man”.

Sarah (Cindy Waddingham)

Sarah, like any modern single parent, is trying to create a stable life for herself and Wilfred. Sarah has a long list of failed relationships, which have left her suspectedly after Wilfred's manipulative plots. Sarah is the only thing that stands between Wilfred and Adam being friends and to Wilfred, she is the most important thing of his life.

Episodes

IFC recently acquired Wilfred. Episodes Can be seen at http://www.ifc.com/video/Web-Series/Wilfred/1531204499

Trivia

Adam Zwar met Cindy Waddingham and director Tony Rogers while filming a commercial for HBA health insurance (he was the bucktoothed client who sprayed the slogan "Three for free").

ee also

* List of Australian television series

External links

* [http://www21.sbs.com.au/wilfred/index.php Official website]
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* [http://www.australiantelevision.net/wilfred/index.html "Wilfred"] at Australian Television
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A713225;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Wilfred at the National Film and Sound Archive]