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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…

Fox Television Group Chairman/CEO Gary Newman is not expecting any Fox Broadcast talent or creators to bail in protest over Fox News Channel. The scrum question was a natural given last month’s outrage over some of the more “fringe sh*t” coming out of Fox News Channel stars these days, as Seth MacFarlane described it…

Every hot streak is bound to come to an end. For the first time since its 2009 launch, ABC’s Modern Family failed to land a comedy series or acting nomination for its its most recent ninth season. Modern Family garnered eight consecutive best comedy series noms for its first eight seasons, winning five years in a row…

It’s been an extraordinary confluence of events. Seth MacFarlane’s Saturday tweet slamming Fox News for their “fringe” appeals to viewers to not believe any other news organizations was quickly magnified by the conservative-leaning news channel’s coverage of the immigrant child separation crisis. As Fox News hosts and…