The creators of "Party of Five" spins off new "Time".....

Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman pioneered the TV teen drama with Fox's "Party of Five," the saga of five orphans who band together after the deaths of their parents. Now the two producers are stepping into the zone of twenty-somethings on Monday nights at 8 p.m. with "Time of Your Life" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.

The drama follows 20-year-old Sarah Merrin, one of the recurring characters in "Five," to New York where she hunts for her biological father. The producers say they're borrowing a page from Charles Dickens.

"All those Dickens novels were about young men who come to the city, and we thought, why not have a young woman?" Keyser said. "We turned it upside down."

Hewitt's character won't be like the characters in The WB's "Felicity," who mope around college looking for dates.

"The 20s is all about losing connection from family and people who were handed to you like brothers and sisters," Keyser said. "It's about options -- where you want to live, what job do you want. We are not going to repeat 'Dawson's Creek.'"

The new series will still be advertiser-friendly. Madison Avenue drools over shows featuring characters in their 20s and 30s -- one reason why "Time of Your Life" made the Fox schedule. "It's a valuable audience," Keyser said.

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