Foolish Heart was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television series, which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 in 1999. The series, a short run dramatic anthology, was produced and written by Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor.In Canada, Finkleman is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series The Newsroom, in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay...

 following his earlier series The Newsroom

The Newsroom

The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996-97, 2003–04 and 2004-05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002....

and More Tears

More Tears

More Tears is a seriocomedy television series that was broadcast by CBC Television, as a short run programme; it was written and produced by Ken Finkleman following the success of The Newsroom , and was partly a remake of 8½ , by Federico Fellini.As in The Newsroom, George Findlay is the...

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Although the episodes were linked by character interactions, each of the series' six episodes focused on a different character's family or romantic relationship problems. Finkleman also starred in the series as George Findlay, the same character he had played in The Newsroom and More Tears.

The series won Finkleman a 1999 Gemini Award

1999 Gemini Awards

The 14th Gemini Awards were held on November 7, 1999 to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was hosted by Rick Mercer, and was broadcast on CBC.-Best Comedy Program or Series:* Comedy Now!* Double Exposure* Elvira Kurt: Big Girl Now...

 for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series.

The cast also included Arsinée Khanjian

Arsinée Khanjian

Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...

, Sarah Strange

Sarah Strange

Sarah Strange is a Canadian actress, known for work in a variety of American and Canadian television and film projects, most notably as Helen in the Canadian drama Da Vinci's Inquest.-Life and career:...

, Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus is an award-winning Canadian film and theatre actor who is most widely known for his work on the science-fiction television show Mutant X....

, Nancy Beatty and Patricia O'Callaghan

Patricia O'Callaghan

Patricia Mary O'Callaghan is a Canadian soprano singer.She spent her childhood in various Northern Ontario towns and in Pine Falls, Manitoba, considering whether her career should be in rock music or in a convent. Her first teacher was Rosanne Simunovic from Timmins...

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Finkleman's next project for the CBC was the series Foreign Objects.