Men in Trees: What Happened to ABC’s Anne Heche Drama?
ABC surprised more than a few people when the network renewed Men in Trees for a second season. Great, but where did it go?
Marin Frist (Anne Heche) is a best-selling author and relationship coach who helps women find the right man, using her own life as an example. On a plane trip to attend an Alaska conference, she finds out that her finance has been cheating on her and realizes that she doesn’t know as much as she thought she did. Marin decides to stay in the remote town (where the ratio of men to women is 10 to one) so that she can truly learn how to find and keep a good man, and write a new book. The cast also features Abraham Benrubi, Emily Bergl, Seana Kofoed, Suleka Mathew, Derek Richardson, Sarah Strange, Cynthia Stevenson, Lauren Tom, James Tupper, and John Amos.
Men in Trees debuted on September 12, 2006 on ABC. Trees followed the Fall debut of Dancing with the Stars and attracted over 12.1 million viewers. The second episode lost a third of the audience and attracted just over eight million in its regular timeslot. Despite a season of ratings ups and downs, ABC renewed Men in Trees for a second year on March 21st.
Men in Trees has been off the air however since March 8th. ABC pulled the series to make room for the debut of October Road. Trees was originally scheduled to return on April 12th but ABC has reworked its schedule more than once, delaying the return each time.
ABC has now announced that Trees fans will have to wait a whole longer to see new episodes — probably five months. The remaining five episodes of season one will now be part of Trees’ second season, bringing the sophomore year episode total to 27.
Though frustrating and unusual, this isn’t unprecedented. Grey’s Anatomy and Boston Legal both had 27 episode sophomore years. There have been rumors that ABC may change their mind and decide to air the rest this season. We’ll keep you posted so stay tuned! 
October 9th, 2008 at 6:01 am
I love the series which I watch in Portugal on Fox Life. For once it is the real deal. I am so fed up with plastic tv with everyone looking gorgeous all the time! Not real life!!! This series feels real and the beauty of the views filmed are also great!
I am english and would like to congratulate you on this series. Please continue to air it. I see you have axed it for the moment in the states. I beg you to give it another chance. We love it. Thank you.
September 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
i think its a shame that good family type shows are being taken off the air, First Reba, then men in trees. they need to bring shows like they use to have on family orienated,not the trash they have on. all the killing & drugs and we wonder why the world has went to hell in a hand basket. Bring Men in trees back at a earlier viewing times and bring back some of the old down to earth shows.