About the Show

Based on Canadian author Patricia Pearson's best-selling novel of the same name,  Playing House stars Joanne Kelly (Slings and Arrows, The Bay Of Love and Sorrows), Lucas Bryant (Crazy Canucks, Queer as Folk) and Colin Ferguson (Coupling, Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber,) in a fresh and snappy tale of life, love and unplanned parenthood.

Frannie McKenzie (Kelly) is a bright, witty and deliciously ditzy Canadian ex-pat making it big in Manhattan. Frannie thinks she has it all - good friends, an exciting job as a magazine entertainment editor and her own little toehold in New York. She's in the steamy throes of a hot new affair with Calvin (Bryant), an experimental musician who has just gone off on a European tour and now she's been offered the plum job as editor to illustrious and provocative essayist, Michael Tate (Ferguson).

But just when she starts noticing her new "stripper boobs" and the fact that she can't stop eating everything within arms reach, the "stick turns blue."  As her well-ordered world quickly spirals out of control, Frannie finds herself stranded back at her parents' home in Canada - pregnant, jobless, and an emotional wreck.  Stumbling her way into the parallel universe of motherhood, Frannie is faced with figuring out which life makes more sense to her: one with Calvin, the struggling musician, or a new life with Michael, the glamorous and famous writer.