[Nfbf-l] FW: Guide Dog Foundation and NBC's new show

[Darlene Laibl-Crowe]

Just forwarding the press release and reminder for all to tune into NBC tomorrow after the closing ceremony of the Olympics.  This is the premiere of Finding Fischer. It sounds like it will be a cute new show. 

Darlene


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	From: "Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind"<Andrew at guidedog.org>
	Date: February 22, 2014 at 6:00:07 AM CST
	Subject: Guide Dog Foundation and NBC
	Reply-To: Andrew at guidedog.org
	
	
	
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. 	

February 21, 2014	

GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION APPLAUDS NBC’S NEW COMEDY 
SERIES “GROWING UP FISHER”

	
	
“Growing Up Fisher” TV Show is Inspired By Creator’s Experience with His Father’s First Guide Dog from the Guide Dog Foundation 

The Guide Dog Foundation (www.GuideDog.org) is thrilled to support NBC’s new comedy series “Growing Up Fisher” (www.NBC.com/Growing-Up-Fisher/), which is inspired by creator/executive producer DJ Nash’s own childhood experiences when his father trained with and received a guide dog from the Guide Dog Foundation in the early 1980s. Starring J.K. Simmons and Jenna Elfman, “Growing Up Fisher” follows 11-year-old Henry (Eli Baker) as he adjusts to his parents’ divorce and his blind father’s (Simmons) new guide dog. The “Growing Up Fisher” pilot will premiere after the Olympic Closing Ceremony on Sunday, February 23, at 10:30 p.m. ET on NBC, and then will air a new episode in its normal time slot on Tuesday, February 25, at 9:30 p.m. ET on NBC.

“In 1981, my dad acquired his first guide dog from the Guide Dog Foundation, and she changed our lives. She changed my dad’s life for sure, but she really changed all of our lives. I went from being my dad’s human guide to having to race to keep up with him,” said Nash. “My dad lost his sight when he was 11, and until he was around 45, he navigated the world with the help of humans. Several things led him to the decision to get a guide dog, including a fellow law school student who was also blind, and him seeing someone he respected with a guide dog really made an impact on him and his decision to get a dog.”

Below you'll find a three part interview with show Creator and Executive Producer DJ Nash exclusively shot for the Guide Dog Foundation.

Part 1 http://guidedog.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zODMwMTg5JnA9MSZ1PTEwMjY1MDc2NjkmbGk9MjE0MTczMTM/index.html   

Part 2 http://guidedog.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zODMwMTg5JnA9MSZ1PTEwMjY1MDc2NjkmbGk9MjE0MTczMTQ/index.html  

Part 3 http://guidedog.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zODMwMTg5JnA9MSZ1PTEwMjY1MDc2NjkmbGk9MjE0MTczMTU/index.html

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