Premieres Sunday, September 24th @ 10/9c (after the season premiere of DH)
Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Ron Rifkin, Rachel Griffiths.
You can't go wrong? Or can you?
Firings, recasts, and people leaving for "creative difficulties" --- this is easily the most talked about new show of the season.
Buzz is that the original pilot was god-awful, and ABC only picked it up because of the star power. It was re-worked a bit and now early reviews still say the show isn't as good as it should be with this kind of cast and the pedigree behind the camera (Ken Olin was a producer for "Alias", his wife Patricia Wettig left her esteemed role on 'Prison Break' for this).
Some very promising news is that Greg Berlanti (creator and showrunner of "Everwood") is now the showrunner for this show.
I'm tempted to give it a shot --- I think with Berlanti now at the helm it can't go anywhere but up.
Pathetic self-bumpage
Quote:
Brothers and Sisters follows the Walkers through the maze of American life today -- the pressures, limitless options and the struggle to grow beyond our backgrounds into ourselves. Through these fascinating siblings -- Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), the corporate VP who returns to the family business so she can give to her marriage as much as she does to her career; Tommy (Balthazar Getty), the loyal son yet charming womanizer; Kevin (Matthew Rhys), the gay lawyer cautiously learning about love; Justin (Dave Annable), the baby of the family, grappling with war trauma and addiction; and Kitty (Calista Flockhart), right-wing radio host turned TV pundit who has always been Daddy's little girl -- the show explores what it means to be a family in the 21st century, and how these brothers and sisters balance their own lives as they strive to accept their parents as people -- flawed, contradictory and forgivable -- rather than just as a father and mother.
Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Ron Rifkin, Rachel Griffiths.
You can't go wrong? Or can you?
Firings, recasts, and people leaving for "creative difficulties" --- this is easily the most talked about new show of the season.
Buzz is that the original pilot was god-awful, and ABC only picked it up because of the star power. It was re-worked a bit and now early reviews still say the show isn't as good as it should be with this kind of cast and the pedigree behind the camera (Ken Olin was a producer for "Alias", his wife Patricia Wettig left her esteemed role on 'Prison Break' for this).
Some very promising news is that Greg Berlanti (creator and showrunner of "Everwood") is now the showrunner for this show.
I'm tempted to give it a shot --- I think with Berlanti now at the helm it can't go anywhere but up.
Pathetic self-bumpage
