Season 5 of Brothers & Sisters premieres tonight at 10/9c on ABC, finally providing a resolution to the many cliffhanger tragedies happening to various cast members.

Last season ended with a disastrous car crash that seemed to kill off departing cast member Rob Lowe’s character, Robert McCallister. It also left William Walker’s ex-mistress Holly (Patricia Wettig) in similarly critical condition. If that all wasn’t traumatic enough, Saul (Ron Rifkin) revealed that he was HIV-positive and Justin (Dave Annable) and Rebecca (Emily VanCamp) came to a crossroads in their young marriage.

How is Brothers & Sisters going to take care of all of this mayhem this season? With a jump-ahead-in-time plot of course!

Executive producer David Marshall Grant tells TVGuide.com: “There are a lot of things we need to catch the audience up on, and there’s a lot of closure we need to acknowledge and let the audience share in. We are doing a lot to deal with that finale and get us into a place where we feel that we understand what happened and move beyond it, just as the Walkers are beginning to move beyond it.”

Grant says the jump in time will quickly allow the viewers to move on and grow. “We are starting these characters in new worlds,” he says. “These characters are really trying to reinvent themselves or to get through some really significant hurdles. I think we’re going to really hold these characters’ feet to the fire in terms of figuring out what they need to deal with and what they need to get past.”

I recently met up with two of the show’s stars, Rachel Griffiths (Sarah) and Gilles Marini (Luc) at the 2010 ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event. Check out the photos and video of Rachel and Gilles below.  

What will the show have in mind for this duo? Sarah will debate what to do with the Narrow Lake land, which could lead to a lot of money for all the Walker family members. Luckily, her rocky love life seems to be on solid ground. “They’re very much in love. It’s become a great relationship for us,” Grant says. “They seem to have the same kind of chemistry as Scotty and Kevin, and it’s just been really fun to watch.” Lucky for you ladies, look to see a lot of Luc, as he has become an underwear model. After seeing Gilles Marini as Samantha’s outdoor-showering neighbor in Sex and the City: The Movie, and as runner-up in Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars, we know Gilles as Luc can certainly pull off his new model gig. Need more proof?  Here is a picture of Luc as an underwear model which Gilles Tweeted recently:

Here are pictures and videos from the ABC 2010 Red Carpet Premiere Event:

Gilles Marini turning the camera on us.

Gilles Marini was so cool to grab my camera and take a picture with me. Thanks Gilles!

The beautiful Nancy O’Dell took a moment to take a picture with me.