Brothers and sisters: love them or hate them, one thing’s for sure - they surely make things interesting on the small screen. From protective older brothers to estranged half-siblings, all of us can relate to the family affair factor, although it’s rare to find real-life siblings who look as hot as those seen in TV shows.

Nevertheless, TV sibling characters are doing various sorts of things for the sake of family entertainment. Whether they’re spies fi ghting the world, witches fighting demons, alien/human hybrids, or lost on a deserted island, the sibling bond pulls them through whatever obstacles the series’ creators throw their way.

Together, it seems, their love and understanding for each other can conquer anything, including poor ratings. Here’s Buzz’s pick of today’s most sizzling TV sibling characters ...

Tru Calling: Screen siblings: Working the midnight shift at the local morgue while undergoing her medical internship, Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku) also hears dead people from their slabs, calling for her help and she does her best, while trying to rescue her own family members from living precariously and self-destructively, especially her scruffy, cutie-pie brother Harrison (Shawn Reaves).

Why they’re hot: While one sibling can see into the future, the other sibling is always messing up his.

Prison Break:

Screen siblings: When handsome Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is thrown in jail for a crime he says he didn’t commit, his equally good-looking brother Michael Scofi eld (Wentworth Miller), fuelled by brotherly love, robs a bank and lands himself in the same prison. Having designed prisons for a living before, Scofi eld uses his knowledge to help his brother escape from the hell hole.

Why they’re hot: Who wouldn’t want to lock-up two hotlooking brothers? Especially Scofi eld, whose solid six-pack stomach is completely tattooed.

Charmed:

Screen siblings: It all began with the original power of three - Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), who aren’t your average sisters but are good witches and together, the Charmed Ones do what they can to fi ght demons and vanquish evil while saving innocent lives. In their spare time, they shop, date and run their nightclub. With the death of Prue in Season Three, she’s replaced after the girls found their half-sister Paige (Rose McGowan), and the power of three was thus restored.

Why they’re hot: Vanquishing evil in their micro-mini’s, sprayed-on hipster jeans, heels and off-the-shoulder boobtubes? What’s not to love?

One Tree Hill:

Screen siblings: Nathan (James Lafferty) is raised in a rich household while Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) is struggling through life’s hardships. Eventually, they fi nd themselves in the same neighbourhood, school and more surprisingly, basketball team. Soon enough, the two rivals learn that not everything can be settled on the basketball court.

Why they’re hot: Chad Michael Murray’s convincing portrayal of sexy, streetwise Lucas deserves a mention, regardless of the series’ quality.

Supernatural:

Screen siblings: When their father goes missing while tracking down the evil spirits he claims killed his wife, two cute young brothers, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki), are hot on the trail to fi nd him. Along the way, they battle evil in all its cruellest forms, even if it takes episode plots that barely make the grade. But the brothers’ indignation against malevolence and demons charmingly gives them a Neanderthal-like quality missing from today’s prevalence of ultra-sensitive, metrosexual male characters.

Why they’re hot: Two brothers, whilst looking for their missing father, bare all (including their toned and defi ned abs) in a bid to get their family back together at all cost, which is hot in a stud-with-family-values kinda way.

Alias:

Screen siblings: For a long time, Sydney Bistrow (Jennifer Garner) stole the show alone. When characters like SD-6 and APO were introduced later, as well as the unravelling of many fetching discoveries, it was about time she found out about her half-sister, the sexy Nadia (Mia Maestro), who joined Sydney in their quest of saving the world while finding out more about their parents.

Why they’re hot: The sisters prove that you can be a girl, fall in love, play espionage and dismantle bombs at the same time.

Lost:

Screen siblings: So they’re not really brother and sister, but that doesn’t excuse their naughty behaviours. When their plane crashes on a tropical island, Boone (Ian Somerhalder) and Shannon (Maggie Grace) are forced to face their own demons, such as their not-so-innocent sibling rivalry which, instead, has a deeper malaise. The moral is, never take your siblings for granted, especially if they look like swimsuit models as is the case here.

Why they’re hot: Being stranded on a deserted island with an annoyingly selfish or disturbed half-sibling is the last thing anyone wants, but if it’s good-looking siblings like the said two, we then say, “Bring it on!”

Beverly Hills 90210:

Screen siblings: Okay, the 1990s aren’t exactly cool to us now, but back then, there’s nothing cooler than twin siblings Brenda (Shannen Doherty) and Brandon (Jason Priestly) Walsh. After being forced to settle into the rich Beverly Hills neighbourhood when their father landed a job promotion, the twins quickly won themselves some shallow, superfi cial, materialistic friends with rich kid issues. If anything, such themes had worked for the show’s success and raised its producer Aaron Spelling’s fame.

Why they’re hot: We like twin action of any kind.

Roswell:

Screen siblings: Alien/human hybrids Max (Jason Behr) and Isabel (Katherine Heigl) are thrown to earth and must try fi tting in with earthlings while hiding their supernatural powers. However, they surely can’t hide their good looks.

Why they’re hot: Talk about out-of-this-world sex appeal.

If aliens looked as good as them, then invade earth, erm, us, baby.

Party of Five:

Screen siblings: Take your pick from a family of fi ve really good-looking youngsters trying to keep things together after their parents’ death. Okay, so one sibling’s a baby and one is in grade school, but the other three - eldest brother Charlie (Matthew Fox), Bailey (Scott Wolf) and Julia (Neve Campbell) are worth checking out.

Why they’re hot: They’re every parent’s ideal offsprings: responsible, hard-working and cute enough to sell girl guide cookies in volumes.

Friends:

Screen siblings: Geeky Ross (David Schwimmer) and his obsessive compulsive sister Monica (Courtney Cox), are the core of their little group of friends. Through Monica, Ross meets his love, Rachel, Monica’s best friend. Through Ross, Monica meets her husband, Chandler. Measure in two more quirky characters, Joey and Phoebe, and you have some madcap humour and antics which made Friends one of the longest-running, smash-hit sitcoms in recent times.

Why they’re hot: Ross’ love for dinosaurs and obsession with Rachel make him endearing, and rather hot. As for Monica, her ability to tolerate and love the wry Chandler make her a class above other girls featured in the sitcom.