Brotherhood, an American television drama series created by Blake Masters, premiered on July 9, 2006 on the cable network Showtime in the United States. It ended its first season on September 24, 2006. The show's second season debuted on September 30, 2007 and ended on December 2, 2007. The show's third and final season premiered on November 2, 2008 and concluded on December 21, 2008. There are eleven episodes in the first season, ten in the second and eight in the third; the episodes are approximately 50 minutes long each. 29 episodes of Brotherhood aired.
Brotherhood is set in Providence, Rhode Island and centers on the Irish-American Caffee brothers, who hail from a fictional working-class neighborhood known as The Hill. Tommy Caffee (Jason Clarke) is a respected local politician, a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives; Michael Caffee (Jason Isaacs) is a professional criminal who is involved with the Irish Mob of New England. Throughout the series, the brothers' professional and private lives are intertwined.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, known in Japan as Alchemist of Steel: Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師 フルメタルアルケミスト, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Furumetaru Arukemisuto), is the second independent anime adaptation developed by Bones from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series by Hiromu Arakawa. While the studio Bones produces the new series, Yasuhiro Irie works as director, and Hiroshi Ōnogi as writer. The series follows the story of two alchemist brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy. Unlike the first anime, which had its own original story, the second series follows the story of the manga.
The series premiered on April 5, 2009, on MBS-TBS's Sunday 5:30 pm JST anime timeblock, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00. On March 20, 2009, it was announced that it would receive its English language premiere on Animax Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles, from April 10, 2009, at 8:30 p.m, five days after its Japanese premiere. On April 3, 2009, Funimation announced they would stream English subtitled episodes 4 days after they air in Japan. Funimation later suspended the release of new episodes of the series for a few weeks due to an incident involving an episode of One Piece being uploaded before it had aired in Japan. However, the episodes are now back on the Funimation website as well as on the official Funimation channel on YouTube. The episodes become available for streaming from Funimation every Thursday at 10 a.m. CDT. All episodes were also available on Hulu, and new episodes are added 14 days after their airing. Madman Entertainment will also stream it "within days" of the episodes airing in Japan. English dubbed episodes of the show started showing February 13, 2010 at midnight on Adult Swim, as part of their Saturday anime block.