Men in Trees was a romantic television
dramedy series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on
ABC and starred
Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo,
Alaska and concerned Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships. The premise showed at least superficial similarities to the
HBO television series
Sex and the City (on which series creator
Jenny Bicks was a co-executive producer), which also featured a romantically-oriented, female writer. The protagonist's apparent "
fish-out-of-water" feeling in a remote, small, Alaskan town can be likened to
CBS's
Northern Exposure. The protagonists in both series were
New Yorkers thrust into small town Alaska societies. Filming for the series was based in
Squamish,
British Columbia.
Five episodes of the first production season, which were not yet shown on ABC, debuted in
New Zealand on the
TV2 network in June 2007 and July 2007. The five carryover episodes aired on
ABC after the first episode of the second production season, beginning October 19.
Men In Trees has been cancelled as of May 4, 2008. Its final episodes began airing on Wednesday, May 28, 2008.