Three Men in a Boat Boat" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is
The Dog Who Saved Christmas Adrienne Barbeau and Mindy Sterling. "The Dog Who Saved Christmas" won several "Yulies" from the Popwatch column on Entertainment Weekly's website. The categories it won included "MVP: Most Valuable Pooch" and "Best Use of Dean Cain". It was given the "Family Approved" seal by The Dove Foundation. Commonsense Media graded it as appropriate for ages 6 and up. A sequel, "The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation", aired on ABC Family in 2010. A second sequel, "The Dog Who Saved Halloween", was released directly to DVD in September 2011. A third sequel, "The Dog Who Saved the Holidays", was released directly