Where to watch Modern Family (2009–2020)
Modern Family is available to stream in CA on Disney+. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV.
A large, blended family navigates everyday disagreements, celebrations, parenting challenges, and changing relationships. The series offers a warm, often hilarious look at how different generations and personalities stay connected while trying to manage modern family life.
Cast: Bo Foxworth, Ed O'Neill, Ian Patrick Williams, Laura Leyva, Paul Bates, Renee Albert, Scott Christopher, Sofía Vergara, Susan Beaubian, André Gordon, Dillon Lane, Elizabeth Sandy
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Trivia & production notes
- Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the show by sharing personal stories about their families and realized the anecdotes could form the basis for a mockumentary-style comedy.
- The original pilot concept included a fictitious Dutch filmmaker character named Geert Floortje who would run the camera crew, but producers scrapped this element before the series was greenlit.
- Lloyd and Levitan pitched Modern Family to CBS and NBC before ABC, deliberately avoiding Fox due to problems they had with the network over a previous comedy called Back to You.
- CBS rejected the pitch because they were not ready to commit to single-camera filming, while NBC passed after already producing two other mockumentary-style shows.
- ABC ordered 13 episodes after the pilot tested positively with focus groups and added the show to its fall 2009 lineup days before the official schedule announcement.
- Beginning with season two, co-creators Lloyd and Levitan stopped working as a team and instead ran the show separately, each supervising half the episodes to avoid wasting time debating each other.
- In the first season, the adult cast earned between $30,000 and $90,000 per episode, leading to a contract dispute three years later when they sought salary increases.
- Five cast members sued 20th Century Fox Television in July 2012 using the De Havilland Law, a California statute limiting work contracts to seven years, to void their agreements and secure higher pay.
- The cast settlement increased adult salaries from $55,000-$65,000 to $150,000-$175,000 per episode with additional residual profits, while the four child stars negotiated raises from $15,000-$25,000 to $70,000 per episode.
- The show pioneered incorporating hashtags into its storyline as a form of simultaneous self-analysis, making it among the first family comedies to weave social media directly into its narrative.
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