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Dog Park: S1 Episode 1 You And Me And The Dog Makes Three

In the grip of a mid-life crisis, Roland meets the eternal optimist Samantha and her life-loving group of dog-parkers. As Roland begrudgingly keeps returning to the park, he realises he might need a community to belong to.

Premieres Sunday, February 1 at 8.30pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.

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Dog Park review – this charming comedy lures you in with dogs – but you’ll stay for the humans

Marketed as a comedy, the show is more of a light-touch drama, and it manages to sketch a fractious depiction of love that many will relate to

How do you create interesting drama themed around a dog park? If you’ve been to one before, it doesn’t exactly scream “riveting”. I approached the ABC’s new six-part series wondering: will random people from the dog park meet and bonk? Will various disputes erupt, perhaps over where the off-leash area begins and ends? Will class wars break out between the bourgeoisie (chihuahuas), the working class (German shepherds) and the unemployed aristocracy (greyhounds)?

This new ABC show is Celia Pacquola’s dream gig (just don’t ask about Bluey)

As a child, Celia Pacquola desperately wanted a cat. It never came to be, largely because she lived in the Yarra Valley bush and her mother loved birds too much, but her feline dream never went away.

So it surprised even her when years later she and a housemate – fellow comedian Kelly Fastuca – decided to adopt a dog shortly before the COVID-19 lockdowns. Jimmy Chocolate Chip, a rescue somewhere between a terrier and a chihuahua, came first… followed by Deirdre Chambers (another rescue dog, not the beautician from Muriel’s Wedding). Suddenly, life was all about the dogs.

“I just love them. If someone says, ‘I hate dogs’, I don’t want to hang out with them,” says Pacquola, a comedian and actress best known for Rosehaven and Utopia. “If you walk into a shop and there’s an unexpected dog there, it’s like, ‘My day just got 20 per cent better.’ ”

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