House Husbands

Follows four families with one thing in common: the dads are in charge of raising the kids. On the first day of school term, four very different men unite to take on the challenges of parenthood, marriage and mateship.

When his ex puts their house up for sale, Justin makes a last-ditch attempt to prove he can be a reliable dad and partner, and Gemma stages an intervention to help Lewis adapt to life as a house husband.

Lewis is in deep trouble when Gemma catches him flirting with a lucrative business opportunity. Sparks fly when Abi and Kane receive a surprise visit from their meddling father, and Lucy helps Justin make a fresh start.

Lewis faces losing one of the most important people in his life – his grandson, while Justin struggles to provide for his family. The Crabb house is bursting at the seams with Phoebe and Jem in the mix, when Gemma’s mum Wendy arrives on their doorstep. Lewis and Gemma are so frazzled they forget Tilda’s birthday, so cobble together an ad-hoc party which is overshadowed by rival school mum Dimity. Meanwhile Justin and Nicola are crammed into a one-bedroom rental and need a new house to live in. The House Husbands leave Tilda’s disastrous birthday party to try and buy Justin a house, but get held up - at gunpoint. Back at Tilda’s party, the kids are bored and Gemma’s mum Wendy drops a bombshell. After their pregnancy scare at the end of Series 1, it’s been decided Mark needs a vasectomy. Ultimately, Abi realises she does want another child, and races in to stop the surgery.

When renovations of his house go awry, Justin’s struggle to provide for his family escalates. The House Husbands are in full swing renovating Justin’s new place when Mark, struggling with male insecurities around not getting Abi pregnant, over-compensates. He smashes the wrong wall – revealing asbestos. Justin’s in no financial position to deal with this, but with Mark’s help finds an innovative way to raise the cash. Meanwhile Lewis is forced to admit he really has become good friends with Kane. He sees Tom with another man and decides to act on it.

Kane and Tom’s relationship is tested with the return of Stella’s biological father Liam. While Tom wants to sweep it under the carpet – Liam is bad news – Kane thinks they should do what’s right: tell Liam he has a daughter. Their fight plays out as Tom discovers a dead possum in their roof and a bbq with all our people turns into a possum funeral. Here Kane reveals to Abi his anxiety about Tom’s refusal to confront the truth. Kane and Abi secretly order a paternity test for Liam. Armed with the knowledge of Stella’s true parentage, Kane confronts Liam behind Tom’s back, placing their relationship in jeopardy. Meanwhile Liam reveals his true colours and Kane and Tom face losing their daughter. Gemma, tasked with clearing her mum’s stuff out of the family home, bumps into her former neighbour Damo (the son of the woman Gemma’s father is now with).

The house husbands buy a pub on a wild night out. Lewis and Gemma's marriage is rocked by secrets from Lewis's past. Mark's new business venture causes grief for Abi's career.

Lewis's world is turned upside down when his ex-wife arrives unexpectedly. A crisis in Kane's private life forces him to reconsider his ownership of the pub. Lucy suspects her new-found brother is a con man.

Lewis's ex-wife creates havoc for Gemma, Lucy and the house husbands. The house husbands vow revenge when Justin's son is bullied by a school parent. Lucy is torn between her thriving career and her responsibilities to Justin's three children.

A secret from Justin's past threatens to rip his family apart. Kane is horrified when his partner Alex is pressured into becoming a sperm donor and Lewis ruins Mark's last chance to impress his boss.

After amputating his finger in a tuck shop accident, Kane changes his mind about having a baby with Eve. Justin is blackmailed over the custody of his daughter and Abi is desperate to prove to Kane she can be the world's best sister.

Abi is sued by a patient and faces a decision that will change her life forever. Justin goes out of his way to help Rodney, with disastrous results and Gemma makes a surprising discovery about Lewis's grandson.

The arrival of a new neighbour and school teacher causes havoc among the house husbands. Gemma is accused of cheating in her final medical school exam.

Mark's world is turned upside down when his parents deliver some home truths. Gemma's new job at the hospital threatens to wreck her friendship with Abi. Lewis's distrust of Nick grows when he makes Justin a dubious business offer.

Justin's estranged brother visits in need of help. Still reeling from the death of his father, Mark makes a shocking discovery about his parents. Desperate to prove he can be a good step-dad, Nick tries some of Lewis's parenting advice.