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January 4 - January 10, 2020
Freeform gives ‘Party of Five’ a fresh beginning Any earlier fan of “Party of Five” will find a familiar feel to the reboot, but with a decidedly contemporary and multicultural twist. The original Golden Globe and Humanitas Prize-winning drama series about five orphaned siblings aired on Fox from 1994 to 2000, and creators and executive producers Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser are back for the new Freeform version that premieres Wednesday, Jan. 8. Though the younger characters still get separated from their parents, the mother and father aren’t deceased (played by Fernanda Urrejola and Bruno Bichir): They’re deported back to Mexico, still leaving the children to fend for themselves. Brandon Larracuente, Emily Tosta, Niko Guardado and Elle Paris Legaspi play the elder four of the five youngsters – now with the last
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name Acosta instead of the first incarnation’s Salinger. “Chris and I had lots of opportunities over the years to sort of revisit the story,” Lippman says, “and I think we waited until there was good reason to do it. As we began to see stories like this on the front page of every newspaper, we began to realize that what we had sort of imagined – which was a family of orphans 25 years ago – had sort of transmogrified into families of kids who are living without their parents. “Rather than just do a reboot,” adds Lippman, “this is a story that leaves the ‘Party of Five’ characters in a similar kind of situation, and it has the advantage of two things: One, it’s real. It’s happening every day. And one of the things that sort of excites us about doing the show now is that the parents are a factor in it. They are
dealing with issues of, ‘How do we try to parent our kids from a distance? How do the kids deal with social services?’ It’s our intention to make it different, but I think there is enough for our fans of long ago to see echoes of the original series.” Keyser notes, “This was a show about grief, and this (new) show is about grief in a slightly different way, because what is lost is not gone forever. It’s somewhere just outside your reach. The other thing that ‘Party of Five’ was about was what it means for a group of kids who, at the point in their lives, ought to be thinking about themselves ... but end up having to think about each other and the way families work. It’s different because we’re 25 years later, and because they come from a different culture and their approach how to do those things may vary, the way families work. Although, in many ways, families are the same across all cultures.”
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