The Best Laid Plans: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Parliament is a secret and esoteric world with its own culture, customs and language. THE BEST LAID PLANS is a rollicking journey into this cosseted world. Our guide is the earnest, hopeful, English PhD, Daniel Addison (played by Jonas Chernick), head speech writer for the Leader of the Opposition. When Daniel catches his girlfriend and her boss in flagrante delicto he decides to return to academe as assistant professor of English at the University of Ottawa. But you don't just walk away from the Opposition Party — freedom has a price and in this case it's finding a candidate in a riding 50 kilometers away and managing the campaign in the next election, scheduled in approximately eight weeks. The catch: the riding in question has voted solidly for the Government Party since Confederation and the incumbent is Eric Cameron, the extremely popular finance minister whose plurality in the last election was over 90%.

Series details

• Title: The Best Laid Plans
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Premiere date: 2014-01-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-02-03
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBC
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 4471

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-01-05; final listed air date 2014-02-03; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Best Laid Plans on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.