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MEN IN TREES
Premieres Friday, September 15 @ 9/8c
From one of the headwriters and executive producers of Sex and the City and the director of the Academy Award®-winning film, Walk the Line, comes a fun and sexy ensemble drama about finding love in the most unexpected places.
"A good man in today's world isn't as difficult as some women think. You just have to watch out for the signs. You wouldn't drive with a blindfold on, but for some reason, women continue to date with one."
So native New Yorker Marin advises a crowd of her devoted fans. Marin thinks she has found her good man, her fiancé Graham, when she discovers, bound for a speaking engagement in Elmo, Alaska, that he has been cheating on her. Plans for the wedding come to a screeching halt. Coming to the conclusion that she doesn't know anything about men, Marin resolves to stay temporarily in Elmo, where the ratio of men to women is ten to one, and get started on her new book - about men.
Marin's subjects are quite a lively bunch. Adorably affable Patrick, an avid fan of Marin's books, runs the town's only inn and radio station. Man's man Buzz owns and flies the only plane in and out of Elmo. Sophisticated Ben runs the town's only bar and has an unusual past. Last but definitely not least, strong and silent Jack protects the environment and comes to protect Marin from a possibly rabid raccoon and occasionally, herself.
There are women in Elmo too. Both Theresa, Ben's estranged wife and former rock musician, and Sara, the town's working girl, introduce Marin to a whole new way of thinking about men. And of course Annie, Marin's biggest fan, who moves to Elmo after hearing about Marin's break up to reassure her, mostly by quoting the relationship advice she has learned from Marin's books. Back in NYC, Marin's tough-girl editor Jane lends her long distance support, and even braves the ice and bad cell phone reception for the occasional visit.
Marin learns that she has been living with her eyes closed for too long. Now that they're finally open, she sees the amazingly beautiful world around her and for the first time she'll have the chance to stop and breathe. Now if she could just get the raccoon out of her hotel room, this place might be perfect.
MEN IN TREES stars Anne Heche as Marin Frist, Abraham Benrubi as Ben, Emily Bergl as Annie, Seana Kofoed as Jane, Suleka Mathew as Sara, Derek Richardson as Patrick, Sarah Strange as Theresa, James Tupper as Jack and John Amos as Buzz.
MEN IN TREES was created by Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City). Bicks, James Mangold (Walk the Line) and Cathy Konrad are executive producers. The series is filmed in Vancouver, Canada and is from Tree Line Films, Perkins Street Productions and NS Pictures, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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The show, which stars Anne Heche as a self-help author whose seemingly great life crumbles while she's at a promotional stop in Alaska, will air on Friday nights this season. Friday being a typically less-watched night of TV, though, the network decided to give the series some help in the form of "Dancing with the Stars."
"Men in Trees" will now premiere at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday, Sept. 12, following the two-hour season opener of "Dancing." The debut episode will repeat at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, with a second episode to follow at 9 p.m., its regular timeslot.
It doesn't seem like ABC's doing much to advertise this show.
