The new FOX television sitcom series Brothers is premiered on September 25, 2009. The show currently airs on Friday nights as part of Fox’s 2009 fall lineup. This new sitcom stars former NFL star Michael Strahan and Daryl “Chill” Mitchell as bickering brothers who are being pressured to mend their differences by their parents. Carl Weathers plays the father and CCH Pounder is their mother.

The first episode Brothers is about their mother calling Michael home to Houston from New York, claiming that his father had a stroke. Her true intention was to get him home considering she had learned that his former agent had swindled him out of all the money he’d earned while playing football.

She also wanted to get him and his brother to reconcile their differences.

Brothers concentrates on their dispute via comical one liners and jokes mainly about Michael’s gaping teeth and the fact that his brother is in a wheel chair.  Michael’s brother holds him responsible for being in the wheelchair since he was driving the car that was wrecked and paralyzed him.

This sitcom had a few moments of good humor, but overall you could really tell that the cast was just getting accustomed to one another. As a viewer you really don’t have a feel for the characters yet and there were some times when you felt you could of laughed, but you didn’t because the jokes really were not good enough. Perhaps fiver or six episodes down the road Brothers will have grown on you, but for right now that chemistry just isn’t there.