Story editors Peter Calloway and Cliff Olin and staff writer Jason Wilborn are taking turns with this blog. This entry is from Peter Calloway.When people find out I'm a writer for Brothers & Sisters [Sundays at 10 pm/ET, ABC], I am typically asked a series of questions in quick succession that, more or less, looks like this: "How many writers are there?" "How does the process work?" "Who is your favorite actor on the show?"I'll answer those questions briefly: Ten. I have no idea. Whichever actor is reading this blog.You know what is surprising? I've never been asked what TV shows the staff of B&S keeps up with. That's what I want to know about every staff — what TV did The Sopranos' watch? When David Milch came home from a long day of making up the beautifully vulgar dialogue on Deadwood, what did he watch on his TiVo? Did he watch reruns of NYPD Blue? Or perhaps Jeopardy?So, without ever being asked, I'm going to tell you what shows we, the writers, watch, in no partic...
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Story editors Peter Calloway and Cliff Olin and staff writer Jason Wilborn are taking turns with this new Brothers & Sisters blog. This entry is from Cliff Olin.I'm going to try — for the initial portion of this blog at least — to be somewhat serious, and to address a real issue or two about the characters and plotlines and process of bringing you Brothers & Sisters [Sundays at 10 pm/ET, on ABC]. This will be no easy task, because so far this has been the most outrageous, morbid, manic week in the history of Burbank. The cosmos are drunk and the planets are aligned in a silly way and everyone knows it. I'll get to all that later. Probably.I will take the liberty of assuming that if you are reading this blog, then you must be a big enough fan of our show to have watched the second episode. So... Justin is alive. He's not well, but he's alive. That "next week on Brothers & Sisters" and the opening military funeral sequence were cheap and dirty tricks, but you fel...
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Story editors Peter Calloway and Cliff Olin and staff writer Jason Wilborn are taking turns with this new Brothers & Sisters blog. This entry is from Peter Calloway.Phew. What a relief. The show is back on the air. As Cliff "I like to make up nicknames" Olin mentioned in last week's blog, we've been waiting for this week since June. And now we get to share our work with everyone. One down."And 23 more to go." That was what Mark said after we finished talking through the first episode and Monica and Allison went off to write. You see, Mark is a realist. All the writers were happy and relaxed — we were proud of the story for the first episode, knew Monica and Allison would knock it out of the park, but the truth of the matter was we needed to get back to work. There's no time to spare. Literally. Writing for television is like running on a treadmill: If you slow down, you fall off. And then you tumble backwards, slam your face on the edge of the belt, and knock your shin on a...
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Brothers & Sisters story editors Peter Calloway and Cliff Olin and staff writer Jason Wilborn will be taking turns with this new blog. This season's first entry is by Cliff Olin.This whole TVGuide.com blog thing is new for me, and while I'm very excited to be writing it, I'm not exactly sure what I should be focusing on, so I've decided to let it be as close to a raw flow of consciousness as possible. This one blog, in particular, will serve as an introduction of sorts. Last year this little space on the Interweb was held down by our show's creator, Jon Robin Baitz (as is the case with many things Brothers & Sisters, this blog being a microcosm, I'm just happy to be part of a team treading a path that he has carved for us). My name is Clifford Olin, I'm one of the writers for the TV show. This blog will have two other coauthors: Peter "I've grown old and wise and am in a serious relationship" Calloway, and Jason "wee man — I'm definitely getting married soon" Wilborn. T...
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