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"Brothers &amp;amp; Sisters executive producer David Marshall Grant has dismissed rumours that the ABC drama is to end after the next season. ABC recently renewed the show but ordered 18 episodes instead of the normal 22. The series has also been hit by cast departures, with both Rob Lowe (Robert McCallister) and Emily VanCamp (Rebecca Walker) leaving the programme. However, speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Grant denied that the show is reaching an end. &amp;quot;No-one has told me that it\u2019s the last season,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I don\u2019t want to [think of it as the final season]. It\u2019s sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.&amp;quot; The new season of the show will leap forward in time, catching up with the Walker family a year after the dramatic events of the fourth season finale. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m actually looking at this season as a fresh beginning,&amp;quot; explained Grant. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s one of the things you can do when you jump a year. I want to put [our characters] in fresh and different places, and hopefully that will have legs.&amp;quot; The producer also revealed that the show may introduce a new love interest for Kitty (Calista Flockhart), after the death of her husband in the previous season.  &amp;quot;She has a ways to go before she&amp;#039;s really going to land on a boyfriend,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;But men will certainly play a part in her life as she moves past the tragedy. We are actually looking for somebody right now that she&amp;#039;s going to meet around episode 3.&amp;quot; The fifth season of Brothers &amp;amp; Sisters will premiere on ABC in September. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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