Sons & Daughters (2006 TV series)

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Sons & Daughters
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Genre Sitcom
Created by
Starring
Composers Bill Berry
Adam Gorgoni
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes11 (1 unaired)
Production
Executive producers
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseMarch 7 (2006-03-07) 
April 4, 2006 (2006-04-04)

Sons & Daughters is an American sitcom television series about an extended blended family living close together in a neighborhood. [1] The producers, creator Fred Goss (who also is the star of the show), Lorne Michaels (who was a co-creator of Saturday Night Live ), and Nick Holly, flavored the show with a mixed atmosphere of improvisational and scripted humor. The show premiered on March 7, 2006, on ABC. The show is produced by Broadway Video (which also produces Saturday Night Live) and NBC Universal Television. It was canceled in late April 2006 after 10 episodes aired, leaving one unaired episode.

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The whole series was aired on the Seven Network in Australia, including the final previously unaired episode, ending on August 6, 2007. Coincidentally, the Seven Network also screened the earlier Australian soap opera of the same name. In December 2010, ITV1 started showing the series in the United Kingdom for the first time, over four years since its American showing. The show has also been aired on TV3 in Ireland.

Improvisational aspect

Sons & Daughters has been dubbed a "unique hybrid comedy"; the show followed the format used in Curb Your Enthusiasm , using a partly scripted, partly improvisational comedy dialogue. In an interview with co-creator Nick Holly from the Associated Press, he explained that the actors were presented not with a traditional script, but with a "short story" that "occasionally includes a line or two of dialogue, but is normally just this novelization."

Unlike the traditional sitcom, Sons & Daughters was not filmed with a live studio audience and did not use a laugh track for the show.

Plot synopsis

Cameron Walker's (Goss) world revolves around him and his extended family living in Hamilton, Ohio, which includes wife Liz (Vigman), his son Ezra (Matthews), his daughter Marni (Jourdain) and his son Henry (Einhorn) who Cameron didn't know existed, his mother and stepfather, Colleen and Wendal Halbert (Wallace-Stone, Gail), and his other plethora of brothers and sisters. He is considered the only sane person in his family and tries to fix any problem that arises within the family.

Cameron's sister and brother-in-law Sharon (Quinn) and Don Fenton (Lambert) seem to create more problems for him rather than themselves. The couple are almost always in deep denial about their personal issues, such as not having sex for several years.

Jenna (Walsh), Sharon and Cameron's half-sister, is a single mother of one who is continuously attracted to the "bad boy" personality, such as "Whitey" (Pitts), and steers away from the "nice guy" types, like Wylie (Harrington).

Their parents, Colleen and Wendal, love their family but have profound complications within their own relationship. Cameron constantly tries to help them solve their issues, but it doesn't always work out the way he expects.

Episodes

Below is the entire list of episodes from the series including a brief description. [2]

  1. "Sons & Daughters". tv.com. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  2. "Sons & Daughters Episode Guide". tv.com. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProduction
code
1"Anniversary Party" Fred Goss Fred Goss & Nick HollyMarch 7, 2006 (2006-03-07)101
Cameron throws a 25th anniversary party for Colleen and Wendal which turns out to be a disaster. Meanwhile, Sharon and Don struggle with intimacy issues, which their children soon become all too aware of.
2"Bowling Night"Fred GossFred Goss & Nick HollyMarch 7, 2006 (2006-03-07)102
Colleen learns the truth about Wendal's plan, and confronts him at their traditional bowling night. Meanwhile, Sharon and Don attempt to improve their sexless marriage, which have disappointing results.