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The Paley Center for Media said Tuesday that its annual PaleyFest LA television festival is set for March 13-22, 2020 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The first titles on the list of shows to be presented via panels with creators and talent include ABC’s comedy Modern Family on March 13 and Pop’s comedy Schitt’s Cree…

ABC is not going to let its comedy hit Modern Family go quietly as the long-running series enters its 11th and final season. ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke admitted to Deadline on Monday that the current storyline of Hayley Dunphy, played by Sarah Hyland, and her newborn babies with her on-again-off-again…

In 2013 and 2014, Gail Mancuso did something rarely accomplished by female directors, winning back-to-back Emmys for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series for her work on the long-running Modern Family. The veteran TV sitcom helmer did something even men, who have dominated the profession, rarely achieved, and now…

ABC started the countdown to the finale of its signature comedy series Modern Family at today’s upfront. The entire cast of the Emmy-winning series and co-creator/executive producer Steve Levitan took the ABC upfront stage at Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall one last time as the series heads into its 11th and final…

ABC's Modern Family (1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.37 million viewers) clocked its lowest season finale ratings Wednesday, falling three tenths in the demo compared with last season’s wrapper. In its penultimate season closer, Modern Family came in flat week to week, matching the previous week's series…

NBC's broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards (2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.96 million viewers) hit a franchise low in the 18-49 age bracket Wednesday night, while easily besting all primetime competitors with the network's top-rated in-season Wednesday in the demo – excluding Olympics – since…

After 11 years, Modern Family will come to an end on ABC next season. Steve Levitan, its co-creator (with Christopher Lloyd) and co-executive producer, joins me in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens to discuss this TV phenomenon that tied Frasier for winning the Best Comedy Series Emmy a…

CBS’ Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 7.57 million viewers) topped Wednesday night in the demo and total viewers. With Million Dollar Mile exiled to Saturdays, CBS plugged Wednesday’s 9 PM hole with an NCIS repeat (0.6, 4.20M), resulting in a two-tenth drop in the demo – but 29% gain…

It’s official: ABC’s flagship comedy series Modern Family will wrap its run after one more season. The Emmy-winning family comedy has been picked up for an eleventh and final season, the network announced at TCA. I hear it will consist of at least 18 episodes and could expand to 22 episodes. <em…

The saga of the multigenerational Dunphy clan appears to be heading into a second decade. At least that’s the “feeling” Julie Bowen gets, as the two-time Modern Family Emmy winner told E!’s Busy Tonight this week. Bowen, who plays Claire Dunphy, told host Busy Philipps that she has “very positive feelings” about a…

On a night of scripted series fall finales for ABC, CW and CBS, latter's Survivor (1.5 demo rating, 7.714 million viewers) was Wednesday's No. 1 show in total viewers and in the demo. With a repeat Empire (0.6, 2.182M) on Fox, and no Chicago Med on NBC to contend with, Survivor scored its largest audience since its…

EXCLUSIVE: Modern Family has taken an important step toward a final 11th season. I hear that the ABC comedy series’ original adult cast, stars Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Sofia Vergara, are close to deals with producing studio 20th Century Fox TV to return. I hear…