The first Australian drama to show a gay couple raising a child.
Filmed in Melbourne, Victoria in Australia.
Set in ST Kilda, Melbourne.
Even though the series was highly popular and was ended due to a screen hours deal, there was talk of another season, but channel 9 shelved the show.
Of House Husbands, Graeme Blundell from The Australian wrote "It's a nice premise for a show, a kind of Aussie Modern Family and, while not as stylish, or stylised for that matter - it's underplayed in a kind of low-key naturalism - its producers similarly lace the family shenanigans with real emotion to balance the humour. Directed with flair by Geoff Bennett, it's a nicely paced character-based comedy-drama constructed from the comings and goings of, as one of the characters says, a bunch of 'useless parents having a crack'." Blundell went on to say that the show is "far removed from the childish shenanigans" of Two and a Half Men. Dos hombres y medio (2003) and is not as soapy as Packed to the Rafters (2008), a show that it could replace as "TV's favourite family hour". He added "Sure, there's a blokey edge to House Husbands though, so far at least, it's never lascivious, sexist or plain dumb."