As "Modern Family's" Claire Dunphy toys with returning to the workplace, Anna Pinkert wonders what happened to the Clair Huxtables, Murphy Browns and Roseanne Conners of '90s television.
Get a Job writers Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel will draft this adaptation of the humor anthology book by Modern Family producer Ben Karlin. [...]
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Wednesday's final ratings.
Modern Family topped Wednesday, but fell to a finale low.
The Season 4 closer drew 9.9 million viewers and a 3.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down half a point from last year and one-tenth from last week. The rest of...
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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired screen rights to The Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me, the best selling humor anthology edited by Ben Karlin. Script will be written by Kyle Pennenkamp & Scott Turpel, who scripted the upcoming Get A Job. Show More Summary
ABC is burning off the remaining episodes of canceled comedy Family Tools this summer.
The season closes out with a shared demo win on Wednesday for CBS and ABC -- while "Nashville" grows, "Chicago Fire" dips and the Gordon Ramsay competition gets a solid two-hour start. read more
Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC The Middle 7.53 2.0/7 NBC Dateline NBC 6.19 1.4/5 CBS Two and a Half Men (R) 5.31 1.0/3 FOX MasterChef 5.09 2.0/7 CW Love Happens (Movie) 1.12 0.3/1 8:30PM ABC Modern Family (R) 5.62 1.6/5 CBS Mike & Molly (R) 5.38 1.2/4 9PM CBS Criminal Minds 10.80 2.7/8Read More
The final night of the 2012-2013 television season saw six finales and one season debut. On ABC, Wednesday was the season 4 end for Modern Family (3.6/11) at 9 PM. In a season that saw the comedy post its first adults 18-49 win over American Idol, last night’s Modern Family dipped 3% from its May 14 show. Show More Summary
ABC was #1 on the final night of the 2012-13 season in Adults 18-49 (tie) with Modern Family finishing as Wednesday’s #1 show on all 4 weeks of the 2013 May Sweep.
ABC and CBS tied for the number one network in adults 18-49 while CBS was on top with total viewers.
Two things Modern Family-related that cannot be denied: 1) the show has steadily decreased in DVR priority since its most excellent first season, and 2) much of the groundwork for its success was laid by Arrested Development.
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The season definitely wasn’t the best, but it’s going out until next fall on one of its strongest episodes.
Proving that Phil's unusual way of looking at the world is at least partially a product of his environment, his mother's voice rang out in...
For a split second, it seemed like our season four finale was going to be … serious? Phil’s mother, Gracie, whom we never had the pleasure of meeting, has died. Even small doses of Fred Willard’s Frank Dunphy have explained so much about why Phil is the pun-addicted, trampoline-loving, Clive
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Swapping the sunshine of California for the humidity of Florida, the Dunphy-Pritchett clan gathered down South for Phil’s mother’s funeral.
As "Modern Family" wraps up Season 4 on Wednesday (May 22), the series watches as the Dunphy's mourn a character the audience never met -- and the show's all the richer for it.
From time immemorial, sitcoms have been packing up their characters and sending them to Hawaii or France or Disneyworld or wherever, hoping to get a little network promotional boost from the novelty, and to discover new comic possibilities by dumping the fish out of their usual bowl. Show More Summary
Tonight marks the end of another successful season of "Modern Family." While the ABC series itself is full of ridiculous storylines, Ed O'Neill -- who...