As of today, the California Supreme Court has passed with a 4-3 vote that the current ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. California has basically legalized same-sex wedding.

Unfortunately, Kevin & Scotty of Brothers & Sisters were married before this law, and the episode was produced a month before this proclamation was established.

So, hereby, I ask you fans that we bombard the writers with another campaign. This time, let’s advocate for a real wedding between Kevin & Scotty, with a real judge or priest officiating the ceremony, and real wedding rings, with real tuxes, and basically the whole nine yards of a real ceremony equal to that of their straigth counterparts. Kevin & Scotty deserve more.

For your support, please head over to Bloggers & Sisters and in this link I gave you, please comment that you want to see a real wedding between Kevin & Scotty. We need to bombard them with as many comment posts that we want to see a real wedding for our beloved characters! (Plus, Luke deserves a real fake wedding and not some fake commitment ceremony).

Please, everyone, we need your support. Write on Bloggers & Sisters! The writers do read it! We need our voices heard!

The following “episode stills” pictures have been upped to HQ status:

Episode 1.03, 1.06, 1.07, 1.14
Episode 2.03

They are now bigger for your viewing pleasure.

As some of you are well aware, this Sunday’s episode of Brothers & Sisters marked the season finale of season 2, and it was a grand event for Luke since it was this episode that allowed him to be strong and come to truth with the public about his sexuality.

I have included the video clips to the Media Centre. You can find them under “TV Clips > Brothers & Sisters > Season 2″. There are 8 clips in all. 3 of which are .5 clips. Only 4.5 has a short clip of Luke interspersed. The .5 clips are just added bonuses.

And finally, here are the screencaps:

• 804 x Brothers & Sisters: 2×16 Screencaps

His starmeter on the Internet Movie Database has gone up 102% since last week, and it now stands currently at rank #1,547, up from rank #3,154 last week.

Luke’s IMDB Starmeter Ranking past 4 weeks were:

04-May : #3,154
27-Apr. : #2,453
20-Apr. : #782
13-Apr. : #6,619

Hello, this is a great time to advocate the following campaign to the Brothers & Sisters production staff while they are still at the studio and can read your letters if you write to them.

CAMPAIGN GOAL : SHIRTLESS SCOTTY/LUKE

This campaign is mainly for all the fans of Luke and Scotty. We have yet to see Luke go shirtless as Scotty. Of all the love interests, Scotty is the only one who has yet to strut his stuff. Jason Lewis, as Chad Berry, and Eric Winter, as Jason McCallister, have both gone shirtless in this series. Hell, even Matthew Rhys has gone shirtless a few times (and we know what a cubby he is!).

This is currently the running campaign of this fansite. Please, when writing to the creators and writers, make sure to add in the campaign name on the letter and envelope to drive home that this is definitely a campaign we are trying to accomplish. Be polite and definitely beg them to get Scotty/Luke to go at least shirtless once this year.

I had two previous campaigns of 1) getting Luke to come back as Scotty, and 2) getting Luke to be a series regular, turn out to be a successes. It’s time we make this campaign a success. It takes all you fans to help out!

Please send all your letters & postcards to:

Greg Berlanti, Monica Owasu-Breen, Allison Schapker, & Ken Olin
c/o Brothers and Sisters
Production Office
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Stage 6
Burbank, CA 91521-2915
U.S.A.

And please remember to write down “Shirtless Scotty Campaign” somewhere on the envelope and in your letter or postcard.

‘Brothers & Sisters’ star poised for success
By JAMES REANEY — Sun Media

Luke Macfarlane has gone from Slipnaught to tying the knot.

Back in the 1990s, the London Central secondary school grad was the singer in a hyper-talented young band, Slipnaught.

This weekend, the Juilliard Drama Division-trained Macfarlane’s character, Scotty Wandell, is getting married on ABC-TV’s hit Brothers & Sisters. It airs on ABC tomorrow and Global on Monday.

This weekend’s season finale is the latest stop on a remarkable journey for the London-born actor. Back in the day, you could have seen him here, playing Slipnaught farewell gigs at London clubs.

Universities and colleges in Canada and the U.S. were calling. Macfarlane, 28, made his mark in theatre at Central, where the now-retired Ann MacMillan, department head and “drama queen,” helped lead an exciting program. Macfarlane went to Manhattan on a scholarship and off-Broadway on his talent before moving on to Hollywood. He would also come back to Central to share his war stories.

He was seen in Over There, an FX TV series about American soldiers on their first tour of duty in Iraq. The buzz around Slipnaught fans was that Over There paid enough for Macfarlane to settle his Juilliard bills.

Slipnaught was not your everyday high school band — and the Wandell ceremony is not your cliched TV season-finale wedding. Wandell is marrying Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) in a gay commitment ceremony, making history on U.S. network TV.

“From a standing outside perspective, and also as someone who is gay, I think that it’s a very exciting time,” Macfarlane recently told a Toronto newspaper. “How exciting that we’re saying, ‘This can be part of the cultural fabric, now,’ because it is two series regulars, two people that you invite into your home and you see every week. It’s telling of the beginning of more waves and I’m very proud of that.”

Macfarlane hardly needs a Free Press columnist to second that emotion, but here is one who is happy to do so. Macfarlane should be proud.

So should Brothers & Sisters. Scenes made available to The Free Press show the finale to be a TV wedding to treasure.

There is love, family, tensions, doubts, misunderstandings, rings, bitterness and humour.

There are scenes from any impending marriage, on TV. Or anywhere. Scotty sweetly chides Kevin for seeing him just before the ceremony.

Calista Flockhart’s character, Kitty, recalls an outfit that just “screamed bride” to her and Kevin, her younger brother, when they were children.

“I got carried away. I don’t regret it,” says Nora (Sally Field) of elaborate preparations she has made for the ceremony.

It is hard to believe U.S. network TV has waited until May, 2008 to make such history.

So, ABC has become the Brooklyn Dodgers of the gay wedding day, if you will. Now, which U.S. network will be the Boston Red Sox? For non-baseball fans, that is a U.S. pop culture reference to the way some major-league teams — the Red Sox were the worst, but the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees weren’t much better — simply would not integrate their lineups until years after Jackie Robinson had starred with Brooklyn, starting in 1947.

For now, it is exciting to see a London actor in such a finely poised and powerful slice of U.S. TV. Macfarlane, nicely turned out for the wedding, is in classy company.

It is not so much the cast’s other men — with the slithery Rob Lowe always good for a glimpse of TV noir — who carry Brothers & Sisters.

It is the women in the cast.

Macfarlane finds his own sense of pace and place with Field, Flockhart and other “sisters” including luminous fellow Canadian, Emily Van Camp who plays Rebecca and is even more quietly beautiful than she was on Everwood.

This viewer is not a Brothers & Sisters regular. But if it keeps giving such face time to Macfarlane, the pride of London, and VanCamp, the pride of Port Perry, that will have to change.

Whatever comes along, Macfarlane — and Scotty — can be expected to handle it with the same cool he showed back in the day with Slipnaught.

The London band included Macfarlane and other friends who had met in elementary school at Lester B. Pearson school for the arts.

At various stages, the group was known as Fulcrum or Fellow Nameless. It lasted into the new millennium with various lineups.

It was as Slipnaught that Macfarlane and his friends found out about the rock and roll name game.

Slipnaught was dogged by the similarity of its name to a U.S. death metal rock band, Slipknot. That Slipknot turned out be a scary outfit of several hundred Iowans in clown masks.

Slipknot’s metalhead fans occasionally drove many miles only to find that this progressive, jazzy, smart, charismatic London band, Slipnaught, wasn’t . . . Slipknot.

The crash of a metalhead’s dream is so often ugly, is it knot?

Slipnaught just kept making its own sound and called its first farewell gig “the Final Frontier” — final to indicate the end, but frontier for the unknown future that lies ahead.

That works for the Brothers & Sisters wedding episode, too.

The media buzz around the Brothers & Sisters wedding guarantees at least one thing about Macfarlane’s future.

When Over There’s 15 minutes of fame were over in 2005, Macfarlane was reflective. “Being in Over There is a wonderful thing, but at the same time, I don’t want it to be the highlight of my career,” he said.

Starting this weekend, there is no danger of that.

Direct Link : CANOE - JAM! or London Free Press

It seems like the clip they used on the 30 minutes show and the clip online are a bit different.

Here’s what they showed on the television:

Entertainment Tonight has a little video clip along with a blurb about the season finale of Brothers & Sisters episode 2.16. Jann Carl went to the set and got an interview with Matthew Rhys & Rob Lowe, as show in the clip below.

And here’s their article blurb:

ET was exclusively behind the scenes when “Brothers & Sisters” filmed its season finale — and now we can show you the history-making television event before it airs on Sunday night.

On last week’s episode, Kevin (MATTHEW RHYS) proposed to his same-sex lover, Scotty (LUKE MacFARLANE). This week, the two will celebrate their decision to be life partners with a commitment ceremony officiated over by Kevin’s sister Kitty (CALISTA FLOCKHART).

“It just feels like the natural flow of the Walker family,” ROB LOWE, who plays Kevin’s brother-in-law Senator Robert McCallister, tells ET’s JANN CARL, who is on the set for the event. “It doesn’t feel gratuitous, or really just standout. That’s where Kevin was heading and it’s really organic which is really nice.

“Ten years ago, there wouldn’t have been a gay character portrayed the way the show does in primetime, I don’t think. I also don’t think we would be able to do the same kind of political storylines that I get to do on the show.”

Rob’s character is a Republican senator who voted against gay marriage, even though he has a gay brother. And McCallister’s brother, who is a minister, previously dated Kevin. All that aside, when Kevin realized he forgot to get a ring, the ceremony comes to a halt, until McCallister loans them his.

“There’s a lot of interesting stuff that has been coming up for me, which is good,” Rob continues. “That’s what you want as an actor. You want a lot of paint on your palette to paint with.”

“Brothers & Sisters” airs Sunday night at 10 p.m. on ABC.

Direct Link : ETOnline.Com