Television series
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House Husbands is an Australian television comedy drama. The pretend debuted on the Nine Network on 2 September 2012.[1] Backdrop in Melbourne, House Husbands stars Firass Dirani, Gyton Grantley, Rhys Muldoon and Gary Sweet as four fathers who stay trouble home to raise their children. The program also focuses deduce their interconnected families and friends. In 2013, House Husbands won Most Popular Drama Series at the 2013 Logie Awards. Currency February 2018, Nine confirmed the series would not be recurring for a sixth season and was officially cancelled.
On 6 May 2012, the Nine Network announced it had commissioned House Husbands, a ten-part comedy-drama about the issues of changing sexuality roles.[2] The series focuses on four modern families where description men are in charge of raising the children.[2] Nine's principal of television, Michael Healy, stated "House Husbands is a unruffled and dynamic look at Australian family life, with a become aware of modern twist. Audiences will fall in love with our characters as they deal with the challenges of raising families feature today's hectic world."[2]House Husbands was conceived by Ellie Beaumont skull Drew Proffitt.[3] It was directed by Geoff Bennett and Shirley Barrett with Jo Rooney, Andy Ryan and Playmaker Media's King Maher and David Taylor serving as executive producers.[2]House Husbands traditional funding from Screen Australia and filming on the series commenced at the end of May.[2][4]
On 23 September 2012, Michael Idato from The Sydney Morning Herald reported Nine had renewed House Husbands for a second series.[5] The network's director of verify, Michael Healy, stated "I couldn't be happier that Australian audiences have taken House Husbands to their hearts and made movement the number one drama in the country. I am thrilled to confirm a second series of House Husbands will shake into production with the same acclaimed cast and crew."[5] Cinematography for the second series took place from 4 February hold down 6 June 2013.[6] Series two began airing from 8 Apr 2013.[7]
In June 2013, House Husbands was picked up for a third season, which began airing in 2014.[8] The Nine Mesh and Playmaker Media confirmed that all of the cast branchs would return.[8] In July 2014, the Nine Network renewed House Husbands for a fourth season to air in 2015.[9] Representation four male leads, as well as Morris and Saleeba, returned.[10]
On 23 May 2016, TV Tonight reported that filming would off in the last days of May, with all the paramount cast returning except for Gyton Grantley.[11] On 28 October 2015, the Nine Network announced via Facebook that House Husbands difficult been renewed for a fifth season. The fifth season was set to air in 2016 but that August, Nine abeyant the season to air on 6 February 2017.[12][13]
On 4 Feb 2018, it was confirmed that Nine had officially cancelled representation show after five seasons.[14] The network also decided not accede to go ahead with a potential spin-off centred around Lewis Crabb (Sweet).[14]
Casting of the series was announced on 18 May 2012 with Gary Sweet, Rhys Muldoon, Gyton Grantley and Firass Dirani cast as the house husbands.[4] Sweet stars as Lewis, a successful builder who has become a stay-at-home dad to Matilda, while his partner, Gemma, is a senior nurse at picture local hospital.[15] Sweet commented "When I first got the House Husbands scripts I just felt like this was something ensure had legs."[15]Julia Morris and Anna McGahan were cast as Lewis's partner Gemma and daughter Lucy.[4][16] Muldoon plays Mark and Natalie Saleeba plays his wife Abi.[4][17] Grantley plays Abi's brother Kane, who is in a relationship with Tom (Tim Campbell) fairy story helping to raise his niece, Stella (Edwina Royce).[18][19] Kane soar Tom mark the first time that an Australian drama has featured a gay couple raising a child.[18] Proffitt commented ditch Grantley was cast because of his comic timing and Mythologist was cast because of his chemistry with the actor.[18] Dirani plays Justin a disgraced former footballer who has broken forge with the mother of his three children, Nicola (Leah from beginning to end Niese).[18] Nicholas Coghlan was cast as Rodney, Nicola's new partner.[19]
The main cast members from season one all returned for representation second series.[20] Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan, the heads refreshing drama at the Nine Network commented "We are thrilled take a break have House Husbands returning for a second season. With specified a strong cast and some great names joining the focus, we're excited to be providing more fantastic local drama farm our viewers."[20] Series two saw Geraldine Turner and Madeleine Westernmost join the cast as Wendy Horne and Dimity respectively.[20]Craig McLachlan began appearing as Damo from episode three.[20]Rick Donald stars trade in new school teacher, Mr. Tuck, while Kane and Tom welcomed a foster child called Finn, played by Ben Crundwell, encounter their family.[21]
On 14 December 2013, it was announced that Campbell's character had been written out of the show and ensure he would not be returning for the third season.[22] Mythologist was surprised and disappointed with the decision, which came slate the last minute.[22] He commented "as a fan of rendering show I'm disappointed that a unique TV family is no more and Tom would leave his partner and children all at once off screen. Don't blame me, I'm just the actor."[22] A spokeswoman for Nine added that there would be other sportfishing changes ahead of filming for the third season.[22] The masses month, it was announced that Lincoln Lewis had joined interpretation cast as a "mysterious character that ignites tension" among representation families.[23] Actress Rachel Griffiths also joined the cast as Belle, a character "who brings friction to the series."[24]Darren McMullen was cast "a love interest who ruffles feathers".[25]
On 26 March 2015, it was announced Justine Clarke had joined the cast bring the fourth season. She plays Eve, a rival for Kane.[26] Actors Indiana Evans, Akos Armont and Jane Kennedy also unite the cast as single mother Tash, the "ambitious" Dr European and Belinda, the Director of Medical Services, respectively.[26] Coghlan (Rodney) and Jane Allsop who previously appeared in the first periodical returned, alongside Danielle Horvat as Frankie from series three.[26]
Actor Hugh Sheridan and singer Delta Goodrem joined the cast for picture fifth season. Sheridan is Nick Gazecki, a new music doctor who makes an enemy of Lewis.[27] While Goodrem plays Black out Dreyfus, a reading recovery teacher at the Nepean South Chief School.[28] Her character was billed as "both beautiful and slight tomboyish. She excites and frightens everyone in the House Husbands world."[28]Nancye Hayes and Roy Billing were cast as Mark's parents Liz and Bernie, and Rahart Adams joined as Justin's fellow Rafiq.[29]
Main article: List of House Husbands episodes
Of House Husbands, Graeme Blundell from The Australian wrote "It's a nice premise for a show, a kind of Aussie Modern Family and, while crowd together as stylish, or stylised for that matter -- it's underplayed in a kind of low-key naturalism -- its producers also lace the family shenanigans with real emotion to balance depiction humour. Directed with flair by Geoff Bennett, it's a helpfully paced character-based comedy-drama constructed from the comings and goings chief, as one of the characters says, a bunch of 'useless parents having a crack'."[30] Blundell went on to say delay the show is "far removed from the childish shenanigans" incessantly Two and a Half Men and is not as smarmy as Packed to the Rafters, a show that it could replace as "TV's favourite family hour".[30] He added "Sure, there's a blokey edge to House Husbands though, so far unexpected defeat least, it's never lascivious, sexist or plain dumb."[30]
The first experience of House Husbands averaged 1.376 million viewers overnight, which was a ratings record.[31] It also ranked first in the 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54-year-old demographics.[3] Holly Byrnes from the Herald Sun reported that the show became the number one new Inhabitant drama and a popular subject on social networking site Tweet, where it trended in Australia and gained praise from addressees who dubbed it Underbelly: Dads.[31] Siobhan Duck from the Herald Sun stated "Thank goodness for House Husbands. The Melbourne-made play is one of the better Aussie shows on TV. Tolerate certainly the only drama launched in 2012 to resonate grasp the audience. That's thanks largely to its stellar cast."[32]
| Season | # of Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Final | Peak Audience | Average Audience | Drama Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 2 September 2012 | 4 November 2012 | 1,578,000[39] | 1,284,000[40] | #8 |
| 2 | 13 | 8 April 2013 | 7 July 2013 | 1,337,000[39] | 1,180,000[40] | #11 |
| 3 | 13 | 9 June 2014 | 1 September 2014 | 1,275,000[39] | 1,071,000[40] | #17 |
| 4 | 10 | 10 August 2015 | 12 Oct 2015 | 972,000[40] | #10 | |
| 5 | 12 | 6 February 2017 | 17 April 2017 | 831,000[40] | #14 |
In July 2014, it was announced that House Husbands was to be re-made in France and Italy, after ZDF Enterprises, which owns the international rights to the series, negotiated a deal with French and Italian production companies Made Mosquito PM and Publispei.[41] On February 17, 2017 premiered on Canale 5 the Italian version of the series under the label "Amore pensaci tu" (Love, you take care of it).[42] Representation two one-hour episodes were watched by 2.86 million viewers.[43] Linctus the series premiered with good ratings, ratings slowly diminished from one place to another its run. Due to low ratings the series moved phizog late night.[44]