Tonight, the Mafia absconds with our spot
Tonight, once again, is a Sunday night without Our Show. Brothers & Sisters was originally supposed to have returned on this night, January 6, but ABC decided to replace it — not with a holiday special this time, or a beloved movie classic, but with a trashy-sounding new soap opera, Cashmere Mafia, which has been deemed deserving of the ratings heat that comes with following the last pre-strike Desperate Housewives.
I can’t decide if this is good news — that the network thinks B&S is strong enough to do well without the DH push in its remaining three weeks of new shows — or bad news — that the network couldn’t care less how B&S does, and plans to burn the last three when nobody’s watching. I’ll try to imagine it’s the former, and remember that, a few weeks down the road, we’ll just be glad that we have one more episode to watch.
If you’re missing the Walkers, here are a few YouTube videos that might help a little. The first is an interview with Sarah Jane Morris, from November, in which she mentions that as far as she knows, Julia and Tommy will stay together. The segment is longer than all of Julia’s Brothers & Sisters scenes put together, and you may want to knock the heads of the hosts together for asking such dumb questions, but it’s a little Walker fix, nonetheless.
As is the second video, “Brothers and Sisters Choose Peace,” which spotlights Calista Flockhart, Matthew Rhys, Dave Annable, and Emily VanCamp at the Peace Over Violence Humanitarian Awards. The style of the clip is a little hyperactive, and the jumping from talk about domestic violence to talk about the show plots a little awkward, but those Walker portrayers sure do look cute. Can’t wait until next week when they’re all back at the old Pasadena homestead, and Justin and Julia are maybe raining a little domestic violence down on Tommy.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’ve read that ABC is saving the final two episodes (2.11 and 2.12) for February. This is good news, in my view, because that means they’re saving them for Sweeps in the hopes they can garner decent ratings. If they wanted to just burn off the remaining episodes, they’d have aired them all in January. Remember, this season B&S has been a solid performer in the ratings — #3 among hour-long scripted programming for ABC (behind DH and Grey’s).