Listed below are the dates, titles, and descriptions for the first two episodes of Family Tools.

Wednesday, May 1st – “Pilot”
Mixing family with business is never easy, and Jack Shea is about to learn that lesson the hard way. When Jack’s father, Tony, has a heart attack and is forced to hand over the keys to his beloved handyman business, Jack’s eager to finally step up and make his father proud. Unfortunately Jack’s past career efforts have been less than stellar, so everyone seems to be waiting for him to fail. His new job isn’t made any easier by Tony’s rebellious, troublemaking assistant, Darren, and Darren’s flirtatious sister, Stitch, who works at the local hardware store. But with the support of his Aunt Terry and his oddball yet endearing cousin Mason, Jack Shea may just find his true calling right at home.

Wednesday, May 8th – “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”
When Jack and Darren take a job in a corporate office, Jack tries to reconnect with a former high school crush, while Darren questions his status after one of his ideas is stolen. Meanwhile, Terry meddles in Mason’s new relationship and Tony is uncomfortable with the girlfriend’s unconventional style.

The series premiere of Family Tools airs Wednesday, May 1st at 8:30 on ABC. The show had its initial 13-episode order cut down to 10 earlier this season.

Will you be watching Family Tools? What do you think about networks premiering shows this far into the season? Do you think the show would have had more of a chance had it debuted earlier/at a different time/on a different night?

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How to Live with Your Parents has already completed filming its full season and there’s no word yet on what would happen to the extra three episodes. For example, Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 had a 13-episode order of its own last season, but it only had the chance to air seven of them; the other six were added on to the next season’s order, bringing it from 13 to 19 in total.

Based on the British sitcom White Van Man, Family Tools follows an unlucky man that has the opportunity to take over his father’s hardware handyman business when his father comes down with a heart condition. However, his father is very active in terms of monitoring the business and making sure that his son doesn’t ruin the thing that he built up over the course of many years. Family Tools stars Kyle Bornheimer, J. K. Simmons, Leah Remini, Johnny Pemberton, Danielle Nicolet, and Edi Gathegi.

Family Tools debuts in January 2013 at 8:30 on ABC. You can check out a trailer for the show here.

Will you be watching Family Tools when it debuts? Do you think that the reduced episode order is a bad sign for the show’s renewal chances? If you ran ABC, where would you schedule Family Tools and would you have cut the episode order?

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