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Too inside baseball for you, Hulu viewers? Whatever the reason, Reboot — Steve Levitan's show-within-a-show comedy that starred Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville and Judy Greer  — will not see a second season at the streamer. The single-camera comedy followed execs at Hulu (yes, Hulu) who decide…

Hulu has unveiled the trailer for Reboot, a new comedy from Steve Levitan (Modern Family) that follows TV executives as they reboot an old comedy from the aughts called Step Right Up.  The single-camera laugher stars Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Judy Greer, Rachel Bloom, Calum Worthy and Krista Marie Yu. The…

In the teaser for Reboot — Steve Levitan’s upcoming show-within-a-show comedy for Hulu — a writer character played by Paul Reiser is surprised to see how many persons of color populate the writers room for a rebooted sitcom. Among other things he questions is whether there are any “Eskimos” on staff. How Hollywood…

Leslie Bibb (Jupiter’s Legacy) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville in Reboot, Hulu's comedy pilot from Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan. Also cast in the project are Rachel Bloom, in her return to series television after her starring turn on her CW series Crazy Ex-G…

Steve Levitan is headed to streaming. In the first non-network green light for the Emmy-winning Modern Family co-creator, Hulu has formally picked up comedy pilot Reboot, with Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville tapped to star. In Reboot, created by Levitan and clearly inspired by the recent wave of comedy…

Earlier this week, we lost George Segal, who died at the age of 87 of complications from bypass surgery. One of the most memorable roles of the versatile actor, whose credits range from the Oscar-nominated performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to his final role on ABC’s The Goldbergs, was on the hit NBC…

Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan took to Twitter to pay tribute to the late, great Larry King with a story about the time when the iconic media figure found his credit card while he was on vacation in Canada. Levitan tweeted, “True story: I was spending a week in Canada on a lake with friends. One day after…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the two-part series finale of ABC’s Modern Family. It all ended with a big hug. ABC’s Modern Family wrapped its 11-season run with two back-to-back episodes which introduced a new Pritchett baby and new beginnings for all the characters. It featured a big family and…

The cast and creator of ABC’s long-running series Modern Family made a stop at the winter TCA press tour to reflect on the final season and on what’s to come in the future. The big question with any successful series is, of course, about potential spinoffs. Executive producer Steven Levitan didn’t completely dismiss…

Steve Levitan, the Emmy-winning co-creator, executive producer, co-showrunner and director of Modern Family, has signed a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, remaining at the studio he has called home for the past 20 years. Under the massive pact, believed to be for four years and well into the eight figures…

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…

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…