Brothers & Sisters | |
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Genre |
Family drama Serial drama |
Created by | Jon Robin Baitz |
Starring |
Dave Annable Kerris Dorsey Sally Field Calista Flockhart Balthazar Getty Rachel Griffiths Rob Lowe Sarah Jane Morris John Pyper-Ferguson Ron Rifkin Matthew Rhys Emily VanCamp Patricia Wettig Maxwell Perry Cotton Luke Macfarlane Luke Grimes Gilles Marini |
Narrated by | Sally Field (season 5) |
Composer(s) | Blake Neely |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 109 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Jon Robin Baitz Greg Berlanti Ken Olin Mark B. Perry David Marshall Grant Monica Owusu-Breen Alison Schapker Molly Newman Michael Morris Sally Field Sarah Caplan Marti Noxon |
Producer(s) | Michael Morris Nicole Carrasco David Marshall Grant Sherri Cooper-Landsman Liz Tigelaar Michael Foley |
Running time | 42–43 minutes |
Production company(s) | Berlanti Television After Portsmouth Touchstone Television (2006–07) ABC Studios (2007–11) |
Distributor |
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | September 24, 2006 | – May 8, 2011
Chronology | |
Related shows | |
External links | |
Website | abc |
Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. It aired for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 2006 to May 8, 2011. It aired, for its entire run, in a Sunday night timeslot after Desperate Housewives.
The series seems to be loosely based on the British television series The Brothers that was produced by the BBC between 1972 and 1976 and shown in the UK and several other European countries.
Brothers & Sisters features an ensemble cast led by Sally Field as Nora Walker, with Rachel Griffiths as Sarah, Calista Flockhart as Kitty, Balthazar Getty as Tommy, Matthew Rhys as Kevin and Dave Annable as Justin Walker, her grown children. Patricia Wettig co-starred as Holly Harper, with Emily VanCamp later joining the cast as Rebecca Harper, as well as Ron Rifkin as Saul Holden. Field won both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances throughout the series, as well as Griffiths receiving nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal.