Modern Family

Modern Family
File:ModernFamily1.jpg Modern Family title screen
Genre	Situation Comedy, Mockumentary
Created by	Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan
Starring	Ariel Winter Ed O'Neill Eric Stonestreet Jesse Tyler Ferguson Julie Bowen Nolan Gould Rico Rodriguez Sarah Hyland Sofia Vergara Ty Burrell
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan
Camera setup	Film, Single camera
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 23, 2009 – present

Modern Family (formerly known as My American Family) is an American single-camera mockumentary comedy, which premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series currently airs 9:00 Wednesdays in the 2009-2010 season. The half-hour series, which was created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, is produced by Fox Television Studios. The mockumentary follows the families of Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill), his daughter Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen) and his son Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson). While Claire is a homemaker mom in a traditional family, Jay is married to a much younger woman and raising a pre-teen stepson, and Mitchell and his boyfriend have an adopted Asian baby.

Production

The series quickly became a priority for ABC after the pilot episode tested high with focus groups, resulting in the network ordering 13 episodes and adding it to the 2009-2010 fall lineup days ahead of ABC's official schedule announcement.

Cast

The show centers around three families which are interrelated through Jay Pritchett, his son Mitchell Pritchett and his daughter Claire Dunphy. The families occasionally meet each other.

The Delgado-Pritchett Family

• Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett, patriarch of the family and father of Claire and Mitchell. Married to Gloria and stepfather to Manny.
• Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Jay's wife of 6 months, mother of Manny from a previous marriage.
• Rico Rodriguez II as Manny Delgado, Gloria's romantic son.

The Dunphy Family

• Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, daughter of Jay, and overprotective mother of the Dunphy family.
• Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Claire's husband who sees himself as the "cool dad."
• Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy, oldest daughter of Claire and Phil, who is beginning to date boys.
• Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy, other daughter of Claire and Phil.
• Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy, Claire and Phil's rambunctious son.

Cameron & Mitchell

• Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Jay's gay son, who recently adopted a baby from Vietnam with his partner Cameron.
• Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Mitchell's flamboyant boyfriend.
• Lily, the adopted daughter of Cameron & Mitchell who was born in Vietnam.

US Nielsen ratings

Order	Episode	Rating	Share	Rating/share (18-49)	Viewers (millions)	Rank (Timeslot)	Rank (Night)	Rank (Week)
1	"Pilot"	8.0	13	4.3/12	12.74	1	1	TBA
2	"The Bicycle Thief"	6.0	10	3.7/10	9.91	1	1	TBA
3	"Coal Digger"	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
4	"Changes"	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
5	"The Incident"	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
6	"En Garde"	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Press Releases

• "Breaking: Fox's "Virtuality" fails to lift-off while ABC's "Modern Family" gets early pick-up" from Logo (May 8, 2009)
• "'Modern Family' first comedy to series at ABC" From The Futon Critic (May 8, 2009)

External links

• Official website
• Modern Family at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com show
• "List of Modern Family Episodes". TVGuide.

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