It starred Richard Libertini as a middle-aged comedy writer married to a much younger wife (Mimi Kennedy), and focused on the trials and tribulations he faced raising two stepchildren and one biological child.

Shelly Tobin (Libertini) was a balding, good-natured comedy writer in his fifties who found that his personal life provided just as much witty fodder as his professional.

With children in all different age groups, with Rosie and Josh in their (respectively) adolescent and mischievous stages especially, Shelly continued to navigate through the basics of parenting the best he could.

Andrea provided the calm voice of reason, and despite her longer tenure as a parent, would continually remind Shelly that she, too, would still deal with the unknown.

When interviewed on the Hollywood and Levine podcast in 2018 Pomerantz said that he had videotapes of the seven episodes that were produced stored in his garage but that he had no interest in seeing them digitized and shared.