Party of Five reboot aims to educate about immigration -- its biggest change is that the parents aren't dead

TheWrap

Creators Amy Lippman and Chris Keyser want the reboot to show the realities of the immigration system. “We don’t want to go in with a strong political agenda, we just want to tell what it’s like for these families,” said Lippman, adding that the parents “are not present, but they are dealing with how do we try to parent our kids from a distance, how do the kids deal in with social services, how is their footprint in the community different?” Lippman also said at the TV press tour: "We’ve had lots of opportunities to revisit the story and we waited until there was a good reason to do it. As we began to see stories like this on the front page of every newspaper, we began to realize what was originally the story of five orphans 25 years ago had sort of transmogrified into the story of these kids who are living without their parents in a very real way." ALSO: Don't expect the Salinger family to turn up in the reboot, at least not yet.