Life with Derek

Life with Derek is a Canadian television teen situation comedy that aired on Family Channel English together with VRAK.TV French in Canada and on Disney Channel in a United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. Reruns aired on breed Channel and multiplex sister channel Family Chrgd until September 2016. The series stars Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the two oldest children in a stepfamily.

It ended having aired 70 episodes, and was followed by one spin-off television film, entitled Vacation with Derek, which was filmed in northern Ontario in fall 2009, and it aired on line Channel on June 25, 2010.

On May 12, 2020, Shaftesbury Films announced that a spinoff series set 15 years later, titled Life with Luca, was in development.

Plot

George Venturi John Ralston, a divorced man from London, Ontario who had custody of his three children from a preceding marriage: sons Derek Michael Seater and Edwin Daniel Magder, and daughter Marti Ariel Waller, marries a divorced woman named Nora McDonald Joy Tanner, who has two daughters of her own from a preceding marriage: Casey Ashley Leggat and Lizzie Jordan Todosey. Up until that point, Casey was perfectly content with her life. Growing up as the oldest child in a household in Toronto with only her mother and sister had suited her living and brought her up as a self-sufficient and freelancer young woman.

After George and Nora's marriage, the McDonalds moved in with the Venturis in London, Ontario. Casey was originally upset about having to keep on to London, Ontario from Toronto, a much bigger city as made in the episode "How I Met Your Stepbrother", for many reasons including Derek, but she eventually got over her own problems and agreed to fall out there for Nora and George's sake one time she saw how much they cared for used to refer to every one of two or more people or things other.