The 2011 AfterElton Hot 100!

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6. Luke Macfarlane

Rank last year: 4

Sadly Brothers & Sisters has been canceled, so that means we won't be seeing any more of the adorable Scotty Wandell. But you can bet this won't be the last you see of handsome, out Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane. Five years on Brothers & Sisters showed us his talents as an actor, a singer (did you see the episode where he sang that touching Irish funeral song?), and even a potential underwear model-- at least based upon what we saw in a few brief briefs scenes. Hubba hubba.

Okay, he's probably too serious an actor to pursue underwear modeling, but keep your options open, Luke. And come back to television soon, we're going to miss you!

Further reading...

• Every Picture Tells A Story: The History of Kevin Walker in 42 Pages
• "Brothers & Sisters" Pic Post! What's Scotty's Life-Changing Discovery?
• Our Interview with Luke Macfarlane and Matthew Rhys

52. Matthew Rhys

Rank last year: 34

Further reading...

• Every Picture Tells A Story: The History of Kevin Walker in 42 Pages
• AfterElton's Interview with Luke Macfarlane and Matthew Rhys
• Interview with Brothers & Sisters' Matthew Rhys

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The GAYS Of DAYTIME- The Blog.: GOOD BYE, MY FAVORITE TV FAMILY!

The GAYS Of DAYTIME- The Blog.: GOOD BYE, MY FAVORITE TV FAMILY!: "I waited a while to post on this so I could calm down. Otherwise this post would have consisted mainly of expletives pointed in the direct..."

Marriage ends with "Brothers & Sisters" cancellation

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Matthew Rhys, Luke Macfarlane Marriage Ends With 'Brothers & Sisters' Cancellation

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Published: May 15, 2011







ABC split apart Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane on Friday with the announcement that it has canceled Brothers & Sisters.

According to Michael Ausiello's TV Line, the show won't return next year.

“Though, as Deadline [Hollywood] reported, the network was trying to find a way to bring back B&S for an abridged final season, in the end, the suits elected to free up their post-Desperate Housewives time slot for a new show. As a result, last Sunday's B&S season finale is now, retroactively, the series' finale.”

Rhy's Kevin Walker and Macfarlane's Scotty Wandell married on the season 2 finale of the family drama and remained the show's most durable couple.

During the show's fifth and final season, producers capped off Kevin's evolution from a down-with-love closeted corporate lawyer to a family man by giving the couple two children: daughter Olivia and son Daniel.

The men adopted Olivia after their surrogate claimed she had miscarried their baby. But in the show's final episodes, its revealed that Daniel wasn't lost and he joins his fathers.

An article from AfterElton

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ABC Cancels "Brothers & Sisters"
Posted by Michael Jensen, Editor on May 13, 2011

When it comes to the television shows that had the biggest impact on AfterElton.com readers in this site's early days, there are two series that truly stand out in terms of GLBT visibility.

The first is Torchwood. The second is Brothers & Sisters, which makes it just that much sadder to announce that according to TVLine.com B&S has just been canceled. While the show was never a ratings juggernaut, it had done well enough this season that there was much speculation that the show would be given an abbreviated sixth and final season.

Kevin and Scotty

But that's not to be. It's hard to overstate what an impact the show first made on many gay viewers when it debuted back in 2006. Created by Jon Robin Baitz, an out gay man, the show included Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) an out and proud gay character who would go on to date, have a love life, and eventually a family with his husband Scotty Wandell (Luke Macfarlane).

To my mind, the show really marked the start of what has been a pretty strong resurgence in the development of fully fleshed out, complicated GLBT characters and it deserves credit for making same-sex affection and relationships normal for millions of viewers who might otherwise never see gay people falling in love, getting married and having kids.

No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.

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AE >> No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.

I totally agree with Michael Jensen. For the moment, I don't know where I can see Luke again except a theatre where I can't go. I hope he will appear soon on some TV shows.

Brothers & Sisters... Cancelled

As almost all of us expected, Brothers & Sisters is cancelled. I really loved to see Luke as Scotty though, I guess it's time to move on.

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UPDATE: 'Brothers & Sisters' Canceled, As Is 'V'
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 11:48am PDT

UPDATE: It's official, there will be no sixth season of ABC's family drama Brothers and Sisters. And V won't return for a third season either. ABC just made the calls.

PREVIOUS: Barring any last-minute miracle, it looks like this is the end of the road for ABC's veteran family drama Brothers and Sisters. There had been a serious effort by ABC and producing studio ABC Studios to find a price point at which they could bring the show back for an abbreviated sixth and final season. There have been talks with star Calista Flockhart to return for six episodes next season. Last May, Brothers and Sisters clinched a last-minute 18-episode order that was subsequently expanded to 22 episodes. But the indications are, with so many drama pilots scoring high in testings and screenings this year, ABC is ready to say good-bye to the Walker clan.

Side Dish - 9th May

Side Dish from ABC, Brothers & Sisters.

A New Family

That has been my theme this year. I’m sure last week’s Renegade Editor would even have to agree with that (thanks for the commentary, Kevin!). These last months have flown by and I can’t wait to see what the next few hold in store for us.

Which brings me to something that is hard to write. I took one other hiatus from blogging after I was in that car crash and, sadly, I think that’s what I need to do now, too. Thank you so much for being loyal readers -- and my fingers are crossed that I’ll be back to write more soon – but for now I need to take a break and spend some time with my new family.

Yesterday was Sarah’s wedding and it was really a wonderful day all around. (Although any family function where I am not stuck in the kitchen the whole time is a wonderful day in my book!) But as Kevin and I danced at the reception we both realized that we haven’t had a lot of time to ourselves lately. When we kissed it felt like we hadn’t kissed in months!

So that’s the reason for taking this blog sabbatical. I hope to be back before you know it sharing my stories and recipes. But until then, I’ll share with you something better than a recipe. Here’s a photo Kevin took of me, Daniel, Evan and Seth at the wedding. I had to laugh when I saw this photo. It looks like we could be on the cover of “Gay Parents Weekly.” J

Until next time...

May 9, 2011 12:46 AM

Brothers & Sisters S5E22

"Walker Down the Aisle"