Californication (TV series)

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Californication

Genre	Dramedy
Created by	Tom Kapinos
Starring	David Duchovny Natascha McElhone Madeline Zima Evan Handler
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Duchovny Tom Kapinos Stephen Hopkins
Location(s)	California
Running time	Approximately 28 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	Showtime
Original run	August 13, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Californication is a Showtime 12-part series production created by Tom Kapinos and starring David Duchovny as Hank Moody, a troubled novelist whose move to Los Angeles and problems with his job complicate the relationships with his ex-girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone) and daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin).

The show was renewed for a second season on September 7, 2007.^[1] The season 1 finale, titled "The Last Waltz", originally aired on Showtime on October 29, 2007. Season 2 began filming in April, 2008.^[2] The premiere of season two of Californication is tentatively slated for summer 2008.^[3] The entire first season will be released on DVD on June 17, 2008.

1 Air times worldwide
2 List of episodes
3 Characters
4 Reaction
5 Season One DVD Release
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Air times worldwide

Country	Date of Premiere	Channel
USA	August 13th 2007, 9pm	Showtime
UK	October 11th 2007, 10:30pm	Five
Canada	August 13th 2007, 9pm	TMN
Spain		FOX Cuatro
Australia	August 29th 2007, 9:30pm	Network Ten
New Zealand	September 22nd 2007, 9:30pm	TV3
Norway		TV2
Denmark	January 2nd 2008, 9:20pm	TV 2
Ireland		TV3
Israel	May 4th 2008, 10pm	xtra HOT
Italy	March 6th 2008, 10:40pm	Jimmy
Sweden		TV4
Finland	March 17th 2008, 10:00pm	Nelonen
Lithuania	March 17th 2008, 10:00pm	TV3
Latvia	March 31st 2008, 10pm	TV6
The Netherlands	November 12th 2007, 22:30pm	Comedy Central
Turkey		ComedyMax
Brazil		Warner Channel
Poland Bulgaria Slovakia Romania Czech Republic Hungary		HBO
Bulgaria	June 15th 2008, 11:00pm	AXN
Portugal	April 14th 2008, 11:10pm	RTP 2
Belgium		Be TV
Switzerland	April 7th 2008, 10:25pm	TSR 1
France	March 14th 2008, 11:20pm	M6
South Africa	April 15th 2008, 9:30pm	M-Net
Chile	May 13th 2008, 10:45pm	TVN (Chile)
Germany	May 14th 2008, 9:50pm	AXN

[edit] List of episodes

Main article: List of Californication episodes

[edit] Characters

Hank Moody (David Duchovny)
Karen van der Beek (Natascha McElhone) - Hank's ex-girlfriend
Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler) - Hank's agent
Rebecca "Becca" Moody (Madeleine Martin) - Hank & Karen's 12 year old daughter
Mia Lewis (Madeline Zima) - Bill's 16 year old daughter
Dani (Rachel Miner) - Charlie's secretary. Hank calls this character by several names, her email reads as Dani, and "Dani California" is one of the names Hank calls her. He also calls her Morticia and Bettie Page in the first three episodes.
Marcy Runkle (Pamela Adlon) - Charlie's wife
Bill Lewis (Damian Young) - Karen's fiancé

[edit] Reaction

The critical reaction for Californication has been generally favorable, with a rating of 70 on Metacritic.^[4] However there has been a backlash from conservative groups who oppose the explicit nature of the program. Californication has been criticized by conservative columnist Andrew Bolt in the Australian newspaper the Herald Sun, specifically the first episode's opening dream scene in which a nun performs oral sex on Hank Moody.^[5] The Australian Christian Lobby’s managing director Jim Wallace also called for a boycott, not only of Network Ten, but all advertisers who advertise during the show, in response to a scene in which Hank and a woman (played by Paula Marshall) smoke marijuana, have sex and subsequently both vomit.^[6]

The show premiered on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in New Zealand amidst controversy due to issues raised by the conservative lobby group Family First, who objected to the content of the show. The group called for families to boycott any company advertising during the episode which it described as "drug, sex and vomit-laden." Pressure from Family First against the first episode advertisers is attributed to the withdrawal of 75% of those advertisers during the week leading up to broadcast of the second episode on November 15.^[7]^[8]^[9]

The show and lead actor David Duchovny were nominated for Golden Globes in 2007; Duchovny won the lead actor award, but the award for best TV series in this category went to Extras.^[10]