Men in Trees is an American romantic television
comedy-drama series starring
Anne Heche as relationship coach Marin Frist, which premiered on September 12, 2006, on
ABC. The series is set in the fictional town of Elmo,
Alaska, and concerns 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 Alaskan societies. Filming for the series was based in
Squamish,
British Columbia, Canada.