The alphabet network has renewed Sunday night drama Brothers & Sisters for a fifth season. As you may have heard, there are big changes in store for the TV show.
Brothers & Sisters revolves around the Walker family as they deal with their own personal dilemmas and run the family business, Ojai Foods. The ABC cast includes Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Dave Annable, Emily VanCamp, Kerris Lilla Dorsey, Luke Grimes, Luke Macfarlane, Matthew Rhys, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Rob Lowe, Ron Rifkin, and Balthazar Getty.
While the ratings this season are down from last year, the decrease isn’t dramatic (unlike most everything on the show). Last season, Brothers & Sisters averaged a 3.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 9.87 million viewers. So far, the ABC drama’s averaged a 3.0 in the demo and 9.23 million viewers.
The show’s now been renewed for a fifth season. No word on how many installments ABC will order but a full season of 22-24 episodes is expected.
However many episodes there are, they will likely be full of changes. Lowe is leaving the series later this season and Flockhart is supposedly going to be cutting back the number of episodes she’ll do. In addition, Gilles Marini, who plays the boyfriend of Sarah Walker (Griffiths), may become a series regular next season.
What do you think? Are you glad that Brothers & Sisters has been renewed? Do you think the cast changes will result in the show being cancelled or revitalized?
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Please do not cancel the show! I have watched this show since it aired on tv! Great storyline. I look fwd to watching this show every Sunday. My kids know when this show is on it’s mommy time
My favorite show. I watch it faithfully every week and tape it when not at home. Great show hope it last a very long time.
Please don’t cancel Brothers and Sisters…great show and my sister and I are huge fans
PLs PLS don’t cancel the show ever i watch all four seasons and i love it.i love the Walker family,coz its just like my family most of the time.looking fawd to season 5.Aisha Pakistan.
Love it also in Italy!!!!!
I have loved this show since it started. Having been an only child I love the relationships between the brothers and sisters. Never a dull moment. Please don’t kill off Rob Lowe He is not replaceable for sure. I love love love this show over any other show. I look forward to every week it comes on and what it sometimes 2 to 3 times as I tape it. Kitty is the best she really is a cool Mom.
I love this show dont cancel. Rob lowe leaving not good hopefully they make it o he can return but i think they are killing him off 🙁
I so wish that this show would be cancelled. It’s long overdue. It’s really clear that the producers and writers are grasping at straws. Let the thing die with some dignity.
i love the show. but Rob lowe leaving and Calista Flockhart’s appearance being minimal is really disappointing. their relationship is cute and something really interesting to watch. so, is he really really leaving? the show will be really incomplete without them.
I LOVE THIS SHOW! ONE OF THE BEST.
I love this show! I love the Walker family and the stories of the grown children. I would hate to see Rob Lowe leave the show – that guy will be handsome in his 80’s ! So please keep him returning. I am a mother, like Nora, so I can relate to her in many ways – I just love her home, her love for her children and the way she relates to them. The way they have brought forward a gay relationship to television I feel has been tastefully done. I think Kevin and Scotty are cute as ever.… Read more »
Please don’t cancel this show. It’s always something different and new going on with the Walkers. They have so much drama going on, that it keeps you wanting more. I think this is a good show.
It will be different now that family business is gone. Where shall they work? They need to discover that land is worth millions so they can turn Ojai into lofts.
Love the show!!! It has a bit of everything for everyone. From affair, mistress, gay son, drug son, etc…, everyone connects. But Nora, holds the family together. She is the foundation of that family. Through thick and thin “FAMILY” is the one you can count on. So, that is why I love to watch every episode faithfully because anyone watching the show can connect to it. So, please do not let this show get cancelled EVER.
Dont cancel Brother’s & Sisters… I love it. Have watch every episode in all 4 seasons and I am so looking forward to Season 5. All the good shows are being axed…. cant believe Ugly Betty has gone… so for god sake… don’t take Brother’s & Sisters from us too…..!!!!
Do not cancel the show!!! Its the best show ever! I love the Walker Family!