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This week, ABC Home Entertainment released the fifth and final season of the award-winning Brothers & Sisters. Here's my review of the five-disc DVD set.

The Show

Brothers & Sisters (not to be confused with the late ABC series Sons & Daughters) feels familiar, because its cast is composed of many people who have had previous defining roles on television. Sally Field had her acclaimed guest stint on ER. Calista Flockhart will always be the title character from Ally McBeal to many people. Rachel Griffiths previously had a major role on Six Feet Under. These are people you've probably ...

We're sad ABC canceled Sunday night favorite "Brothers & Sisters," but thankfully fans can watch the Walkers in the fifth and final season on DVD.

The series featured Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Patricia Wettig, Rob Lowe, Ron Rifkin and Dave Annable among its all-star cast.

The final season shows Kitty moving on from her husband's death with a much younger love, Kevin & Scotty expanding their family, and Uncle Saul falling in love. Norah reconnects with an old flame, and Sarah and Luc take their relationship to the next level.

Field won a 2007 Outstanding Lead Actre...

Calista Flockhart and Sally Field's family drama Brothers & Sisters has been canceled.

The show's recent fifth season will be its last - due to falling ratings. The finale airs Sunday night.

Brothers & Sisters also featured Rachel Griffiths, Patricia Wettig, Rob Lowe, Ron Rifkin and Dave Annable among its all-star cast.

Field won a 2007 Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy Award for her portrayal of matriarch Nora Walker on the TV drama.

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Stubborn General or Muslim, Harry Lennix

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I used to think that there was no crisis facing the Walker family that they would not rise to face. I was wrong. It seems that during the circus that is the writers strike, ABC quietly ousted show creator Jon Robin Baitz from "Brothers & Sisters."

I found this out not in a news story, but rather in an article Baitz posted on the Huffington Post. In his article he described his life in Los Angeles, his work on the show, the compromises that were made and the eventual parting of ways between Hollywood and himself. What got me thinking was his mention that if "Brothers & Sisters" was on ...

Emily VanCamp (Everwood) will join the cast of the hit drama series Brothers & Sisters as a series regular later this season in her second time teaming with executive producer Greg Berlanti. VanCamp will play Rebecca Harper, the daughter of William Walker (Tom Skerritt) and mistress Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig), whose existence has been kept secret for twenty years. The series airs Sundays (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

The cast of Brothers & Sisters also includes Calista Flockhart as Kitty, Rachel Griffiths as Sarah, Sally Field as Nora Holden, Ron Rifkin as S...

ABC just announced its plans for next season and unveiled the network’s 2006-07 fall schedule. Scheduled to debut next season are six new comedy series and six new drama series. Following, in alphabetical order, are descriptions of the new series joining the network's primetime schedule (all times are Eastern):

DRAMAS

“Brothers & Sisters” (Sunday, 10:00 p.m., ET) As told through the insightful eyes of the family's most outspoken and public sibling, Calista Flockhart stars alongside Rachel Griffiths and Ron Rifkin in this warm, humorous and relatable drama.

“Day Break” Detecti...

Former Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart is returning to TV in the drama series "Brothers And Sisters." The actress will join star Rachel Griffiths in the nighttime soap, which features siblings who wind up running the family business after their father dies. The show will mark Flockhart's first return to regular TV series since Ally McBeal ended its run in 2002.

Griffiths was last seen as Brenda Chenowith on Six Feet Under, which finished last year. The actresses will join cast members Balthazar Getty and Ron Rifkin for the new show.

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