Who Gets the Dog? is a television series that aired on Animal Planet (16 one-hour installments) in which three couples would compete for a chance to adopt a dog, rescued by the producers of the show from a shelter. Toward that end, each couple would take the dog home for a night and their experiences would be made into a video. The show was hosted by Dorothea Coelho who was joined by a panel of three experts whose job it was to review the video footage of the dog at home with each of the couples and decide where the dog would be placed. The experts were Dr. Dean Graulich, a veterinarian, Tamar Geller, a professional dog behaviorist, and Merrill Markoe, a humorist / dog lover (and former girlfriend of talk show host David Letterman). The series was created by Jerry Biederman and Chris Dane Owens (Biederman/Owens Entertainment).