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How to Stay Married
Genre
Created byPeter Helliar
Written by
Directed by
Starring
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes14
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Jess Leslie
  • Pennie Brown
  • Jenni Tosi
Production locationsMelbourne, Victoria
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time23 minutes
Production companies
  • Princess Pictures
  • Pablo Pictures
Original release
NetworkNetwork 10
Release8 November 2018 –
present

How to Stay Married is an Australian television comedy series screening on Network 10 from 8 November 2018. The series is a spin-off of an episode of the 2013 anthology comedy series It's a Date on the ABC.

How To Stay Married is a Princess Pictures and Pablo Pictures co-production. After fifteen years of marriage, the lives of Greg and Em Butler and their two daughters change when Em returns to work, Greg is made redundant and his brother Brad moves in.[1]

A second series of the show was renewed on 22 August 2018 and was released for two weeks on streaming service 10 Play, as part of Network Ten's "10 Shows in 10 Days" promotion during the COVID-19 pandemic[2][3] and premiered on Network Ten on Tuesday, 5 May 2020.[4]

Cast

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Episodes

SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
188 November 2018 (2018-11-08)20 December 2018 (2018-12-20)
285 May 2020 (2020-05-05)23 June 2020 (2020-06-23)

Season 1 (2018)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateViewers
1"Episode 1"Natalie BaileyPeter Helliar8 November 2018 (2018-11-08)508,000[5]
After fourteen years at home raising the kids, Em Butler is worried she has become boring and decides it’s time to go back to work. Her husband Greg is initially hesitant to disrupt the status quo but when redundancies are offered at his job, he starts to wonder whether a change might be good for them. Greg’s brother Brad announces that he needs to stay with them for an undisclosed amount of time, throwing yet another spanner into the works.
2"Episode 2"Natalie BaileyPeter Helliar15 November 2018 (2018-11-15)507,000[6]
Greg and Em have planned an evening together at an Ed Sheeran concert, their first night out since Em got her new job and Greg lost his. Greg and Em each harbour little frustrations about the demarcation of domestic responsibilities and despite their best efforts to be romantic, there is friction during the date. Sophie is allowed to babysit for the first time (with Terry and Marlo instructed to keep an eye out from across the road), but things go from bad to worse when the power goes out.
3"Episode 3"Natalie BaileyPeter Helliar & Nick Musgrove22 November 2018 (2018-11-22)264,000[7]
Greg and Em are frustrated by their flagging sex life. Since starting work, Em’s sex drive has dropped and the hassle of using condoms isn’t helping. Terry recommends that Greg have a vasectomy to simplify the contraception, and Marlo recommends that Em do something dangerous (like skydiving) to kick-start her libido. But as their initial excitement fades, the seriousness of their respective tasks starts to sink in.
4"Episode 4"Natalie BaileyPeter Helliar & Nick Musgrove29 November 2018 (2018-11-29)291,000[8]
Greg and Em become worried about Sophie when she announces out of the blue that she wants to quit her basketball team. Greg, the coach of the team, has been so focused on winning that he has failed to notice that Sophie hasn’t scored a single point all season, and resolves that she will score in the next game no matter what. Em regrets that she hasn’t been around enough since going back to work and resolves to make it to the game to cheer Sophie on, but gets trapped in a well-known author’s impromptu adult fiction reading.
5"Episode 5"Colin CairnesPeter Helliar & Trent Roberts6 December 2018 (2018-12-06)N/A
The Butler family is running seriously low on personal space, a problem that becomes impossible to ignore when Brad brings a date over for the first time. Greg and Em decide that Brad needs to move into the backyard cubby house so that the girls can have their own rooms back. With hard rubbish collection coming up, they get to work clearing out the mountain of 'storage’ in the cubby - but while Em has no problem chucking stuff away, Greg gets increasingly sentimental over all of their old things.
6"Episode 6"Colin CairnesPeter Helliar & Nick Musgrove13 December 2018 (2018-12-13)281,000[9]
Greg and Em attend Em’s 25 year high school reunion. Greg is determined to 'be cool’ with meeting Em’s significant high school ex-boyfriend while Em looks forward to flaunting her new job to her classmates. However, Greg is 'cool’ with the wrong person, accidentally encouraging the school heartthrob to flirt with Em. When a teacher undermines Em’s publishing career by suggesting that a poem she wrote at school was plagiarised, she becomes determined to clear her name.
7"Episode 7"Colin CairnesPeter Helliar & Trent Roberts20 December 2018 (2018-12-20)272,000[10]
Greg and Em implement a screen ban to give the family a much-needed break from technology. Em takes Chloe on a 'girls day’ in the great outdoors but between interruptions from Brad and the interference of a drone pilot, the bonding activities don’t go to plan. Greg drives Sophie to her friend’s 'gathering’, intending to have a conversation in the car about the boy she likes, but he struggles to navigate without GPS and they get seriously lost.
8"Episode 8"Peter HelliarPeter Helliar & Nick Musgrove20 December 2018 (2018-12-20)272,000[10]
It’s Greg and Em’s fifteen year wedding anniversary and Em has planned a weekend away at a surprise destination. Greg is disappointed to find that the destination is a roadside motel that they visited when they were first dating, a gesture that Em considers extremely romantic. Em is equally let down by Greg’s gift of celebratory home brew beer. Sophie decides it’s time for Brad to get back on his feet and coaches him to make a good impression on a woman he likes - an Uber driver who ruined Terry and Marlo’s perfect rating.

Season 2 (2020)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateViewers
9"Episode 1"Amanda BrotchieVanessa Burt & Peter Helliar5 May 2020 (2020-05-05)441,000[11]
Envious of not being considered "the cool house" where kids like to hang out, Greg and Em encourage Sophie to have her friends over, promising not to embarrass her.
10"Episode 2"Amanda BrotchieNick Musgrove & Peter Helliar12 May 2020 (2020-05-12)439,000[12]
When Brad announces his plans to propose to new flame Nadia, Greg and Em seize the opportunity to right the wrongs of their own botched proposal seventeen years earlier.
11"Episode 3"Amanda BrotchieNick Musgrove19 May 2020 (2020-05-19)428,000[13]
Greg hatches a 'foolproof' plan to earn funds for his promised family holiday on a cruise by selling TurboMax mixers to his neighbours and family. Em brings Chloe to work for Curriculum Day and scores a book deal from her boss Audrey, about her relationship with her "neanderthal" husband, after Chloe lets slip that her mum likes to write.
12"Episode 4"Peter HelliarPeter Helliar26 May 2020 (2020-05-26)400,000[14]
When Em's pompous father and stepmother come over for a family BBQ, Greg attempts to ask them for money for their family holiday while Em stokes the fires of familial conflict, under the guidance of her boss Audrey, for her new book.
13"Episode 5"Sarah Lang & Peter HelliarMat King2 June 2020 (2020-06-02)428,000[15]
Greg has to wait at home for the NBN technician but he is tempted from his post by his brother, who asks him to visit the supermarket for a once-in-a-lifetime Aldi special buy: a The Slumberwell: Endless Dream bed which Em wants. His absence means that all the family's problems fall in her lap.
14"Episode 6"Trent RobertsMat King9 June 2020 (2020-06-09)407,000[16]
After a sobering cyber-safety information night, Greg and Em Butler decide to install a secret surveillance app on Sophie's phone and are shocked to discover her sexting with a friend, Ravi, from school.
15"Episode 7"Lou SanzPeter Helliar16 June 2020 (2020-06-16)425,000[17]
Em's determined to finally tell Greg about the book that she is writing about him. An unexpected dinner invitation by Carlos Garcia has Em taking drastic actions to prevent Greg from finding out about it in the wrong way.
16"Episode 8"Peter HelliarMat King23 June 2020 (2020-06-23)423,000[18]
As Greg and Em try to resolve their tension over Em's book, the Butler household prepares for Brad and Nadia's wedding.

References

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