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! 
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Please bring Men in Trees back. This is one show I would not miss each week.
I hate it that ABC did this. PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE bring this show back! It was one of the more interesting shows on television! I loved it, and many of my friends do not understand why it is still not on the air….3 nights of Dancing with the stars is a little much!
I agree with all of the comments above. I loved this show! I hope ABC will bring it back. And this is the latest update on the status??? From 2007??? I’d love for someone to go to ABC and find out what’s going on now so I know one way or the other. I can only pray they bring it back!
@Terri: If you do a search on the site, you’ll find that the show was cancelled quite awhile ago. Sorry.
Friends and I have been waiting and waiting years for “Men in Trees” make its return. Please bring it back.
I just read the Administrator’s comment to Terri. Why doesn’t ABC (or another network) bring it back. Forget about “October Road’ (dull) and I happen to really dislike HBO’s “Hung”! The tv show “Medium” was picked up by CBS when it was cancelled by NBC. Can’t our requests be passed along to someone in the marketing network? TV viewers could be given an option to vote on bringing back MIT. Thanks.
I agree with Margaret’s comment from October 12th! Men in Trees disappeared without any fanfare and was my favorite show! Interesting, intelligent and funny! What’s not to love? : )
I loved “Men in Trees”! what happened ? ABC needs to consider bringing it back <
What happened to this show? I love it, I keep searching for new episodes on internet as they canceled it in Spain at the begining of the second season. They should really consider bringing it back. It was a great success in Spain.
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