Is there really such a thing as a fresh start?

Maggie Thornhill is about to find out. When husband Phil walked out on Maggie and their two children, she was forced to rebuild her life from scratch – no small challenge for a woman in her forties. Now, Phil is back with Maggie and the kids. But nothing is ever going to be quite the same again.

So begins the third and final season of the acclaimed British comedy-drama Life Begins, which makes its Canadian television premiere on VisionTV.

VisionTV presents new episodes of Life Begins on Mondays, starting Feb. 4, at 9 p.m. and midnight ET/6 p.m. and 9 p.m. PT.

The versatile Caroline Quentin (Blue Murder, Men Behaving Badly) plays Maggie, a role that earned her a British Comedy Award (her second) in 2004. Alexander Armstrong (Match Point, The Trial of Tony Blair) co-stars as Phil.

As the new season begins, Maggie, Phil and the kids have moved into a new house and are ready to put the past behind them. But Maggie discovers it’s not easy to rekindle the passion she and Phil once shared, let alone learn to trust him again.

To complicate things further, Maggie finds herself in a classic sandwich generation dilemma, caught between her hormone-addled adolescent offspring (Elliot Henderson Boyle and Ace Destiny Ryan) and her aging parents (Anne Reid and Frank Finlay). As for Phil, he has a bright idea for salvaging the marriage – and it isn’t going to make Maggie’s life any simpler.

Created by Mike Bullen, the driving force behind the hit series Cold Feet, Life Begins blends low-key humour and heartfelt drama to paint an unusually believable portrait of ordinary people leading complicated lives.

David Westhead also stars as Phil’s philandering boss Brian, and Suzanne Burden is his long-suffering wife Penny. Alexander Gilbreath and Matthew Cottle play the family’s new neighbours, Mia and Nick.

Life Begins was produced for Great Britain’s ITV1.

For more information on VisionTV’s comedy and drama programming, please visit www.visiontv.ca.