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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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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Sunday's Brothers & Sisters is a glorious confection, sort of like something that Marcel of the addictive Top Chef might have made this season — perfectly constructed, a bit exotic and just slightly unhinged. Its subject: The horrors of romance as Valentine's Day approaches. Its authors: Our youngest writers, two troublemaking boys named Cliff Olin and Peter Calloway, who are hip beyond their years. (Both writer-boys are hovering at the frightening precipice of their mid-bloody twenties. I would get rid of them, but there's a law against clubbing baby seals.)Now, some backstory. Valentine's Day began many centuries ago to commemorate two Christian martyrs named Valentine, but has devolved, like most holy things, into a horrid and syrupy commercial holiday based mostly on the marketing of greeting cards, chocolates with wretched liquor centers, and overly red roses bred to capture the imaginations of gullible last-minute shoppers.And yet...Whose heart hasn't skipped a beat u...
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Patricia Wettig, Brothers & Sisters
TVGuide.com just last week broke the news that later this season Patricia Wettig will take a break from playing mistress-with-the-mostess Holly Harper on ABC's Brothers & Sisters (Sundays at 10 pm/ET) in order to reprise her role as Prison Break's Caroline Reynolds, aka Madame President of the United States. At ABC's recent winter press-tour party, the three-time Emmy winner shared with us her take on B&S' Holly, how the deal came down for her to rejoin Prison Break, and who in her own family couldn't believe she chose playing an "other woman" over the ruler of the free world!
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