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Brothers & Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning American dramatic television series which centers around the upper-middle class Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles, California.
It premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006 after Desperate Housewives and airs Sundays. The acting ensemble includes Sally Field, Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths. Sally Field won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Walker in the series. Rachel Griffiths was also nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category.
On February 11, 2008, ABC announced they have picked up Brothers & Sisters for the 2008-09 television season.
Premise
The show is centered around the Walker family, an American family of Irish and Jewish heritages. Some of the family members are involved in the family-owned business running Ojai Food Co., a produce distributor. Most of the action is set in the Greater Los Angeles area. The family home is located in Pasadena, California. The main branches of the Walker family tree included father William (who is deceased) (guest star Tom Skerritt), mother Nora (Sally Field), and their five children. Nora's brother, Saul Holden (Ron Rifkin) helps run the Walker family business and is involved in most of the family's affairs.
The Walker siblings are, in birth order:
Sarah Walker a working mom and Co-President of Ojai/Walker Landing .
Kitty Walker a communications director for her husband, United States Senator Robert McCallister
Tommy Walker, a husband, father and Co-President of Ojai/Walker Landing.
Kevin Walker, a gay lawyer who is married to Scotty Wandell
Justin Walker, a veteran of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and recovering drug addict
Plot points
The show's narrative launched with the death of William Walker at Kitty's birthday party. His death causes a number of secrets from his life to be revealed - secrets that impact the remainder of his family.
On the business side, Sarah, Tommy, and Saul, who are the most involved people with the family business, learn that William embezzled the company funds. The business revelation pales, however, to two major revelations on the personal front: William had a mistress, actress Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig) that he kept for decades, and the couple had a child, Rebecca (Emily VanCamp). After Tommy finds out that his dad was going to open a winery for Tommy to run, he joins Holly in opening Walker Landing Winery. After that, Tommy no longer worked at Ojai Foods Co. War veteran Justin struggled with drug addiction but eventually recovered and was deployed to Iraq.
Actor/Role/Information
Dave Annable/Justin Walker/Season 1 -
Maxwell Perry Cotton/Cooper Whedon/Season 2 - (Season 1; recurring)
Kerris Lilla Dorsey/Paige Whedon/Season 1 -
Sally Field/Nora Walker/Season 1 -
Calista Flockhart/Katherine "Kitty" Walker McCallister/Season 1 -
Balthazar Getty/Thomas "Tommy" Walker/Season 1 -
Rachel Griffiths/Sarah Walker/Season 1 -
Rob Lowe/Robert McCallister/Season 2 - (Season 1; recurring)
Luke Macfarlane/Scotty Wandell/Season 3 - (Season 1-2; recurring)
Sarah Jane Morris/Julia Walker/Season 1 -
Ron Rifkin/Saul Holden/Season 1 -
Matthew Rhys/Kevin Walker/Season 1 -
Emily VanCamp/Rebecca Harper/Season 1 -
Patricia Wettig/Holly Harper/Season 1 -
Recurring
Actor/Role/Information
Will McCormack/TBA/Season 3 -
Eric Christian Olsen/TBA/Season 3 -
John Pyper-Ferguson/Joseph "Joe" Whedon/Season 2 - (Season 1; starring)
Tom Skerritt/William Walker/Season 1 -
Eric Winter/Jason McCallister/Season 1 -
Production notes
The series is from producer Ken Olin (thirtysomething and Alias) and Jon Robin Baitz, one of Broadway's most prominent playwrights (The Substance of Fire). Noted producer Greg Berlanti was also an executive producer and "show-runner" during season one. Berlanti continues to serve on the series as executive producer. Mark B. Perry, (The Wonder Years and One Tree Hill) served as the showrunner for twelve episodes before departing the show in the aftermath of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The current showrunners are Monica Owusu-Breen and Alison Schapker.
After the series pilot was shot, and the show was picked up by ABC, the series underwent some moderate changes. Most notably, three of the roles were recast:
The Walker family had originally been the March family, and the original matriarch of the show was Iva March, who'd been cast with veteran theater actress Betty Buckley. The role was ultimately renamed Nora and cast with Sally Field.
The character of Kevin had originally been named Bryan, and had been cast with actor Jonathan LaPaglia. Like the current Kevin character, the Bryan version of the character was also gay, but had been married, and was going through a divorce. The Bryan incarnation of the character also had a child, and he and his ex-wife were going through a custody battle. Bryan's child later reappeared during the first season as the show, where he was recast as "Gabe," Joe's child from his first marriage. The show has subsequently received positive press attention for its depiction of Kevin Walker, who came to be seen as a breakthrough in the depiction of gay men on television: he has had several love interests, has kissed his boyfriends on-screen, and had a commitment ceremony with his partner Scotty in the second season finale — the first same-sex wedding ever shown on American network television between series regulars rather than minor recurring or guest characters. The character of Jonathan, the man with whom Kitty was involved as the show began had originally been cast with writer and actor Dan Futterman. They had previously acted alongside each other as lovers in the film The Birdcage. The role was ultimately recast with actor Matthew Settle.
The more minor role of Cooper, Sarah and Joe's younger child, was also recast after the pilot episode.
Robert McCallister was the name of a character on a previous Greg Berlanti production, Jack & Bobby, about a boy who grew up to be the President of the United States. As with Brothers & Sisters, he had a wife named Courtney and a son named Jack.