The ModernFamily cast reflects on the show's final episode
Television-produced program has continued to perform solidly for ABC. That it has been allowed to carve out its own ending by choosing when and how to wrap up is a privilege most series don’t enjoy., who plays Cam on the show, chafes on behalf of the writers at viewer complaints that the series “used to be better.”“That’s just what happens with the arc of an 11-year run,” he says.
“I just hope people, with respect to Mitch and Cam, look back in 10 years at how un-modern it is — the opposite of what it was when we started the show,” says Stonestreet, whose wish is that the series showed audiences “that it was OK for two men or two women to make just as many mistakes raising a baby as a man and a woman.”Whether there’s space for another big network sitcom in the 2020s is hard to project; “Modern Family” might be one of the last of its kind.
“I’ve been writing for network television for almost 35 years,” says Lloyd, whose career has spanned “Wings,” “Frasier” and “Back to You.” “It’s what I’ve always done, and I’m inclined to continue trying it.”“The environment has changed, and it is tempting to imagine taking a very specific subject and exploring it over only 10 episodes or 20 episodes and moving on,” he says.
Levitan, who last year re-upped his deal with 20th Century Fox TV, is already tinkering with a new half-hour script along with two “Modern Family” scribes and an additional collaborator, working over thoughts via video chat meetings during the lockdown. The story is loosely based on a friend’s life, and is “more specific and deals with perhaps, one might say, ‘streamier’ ideas.”As for cast members, they’ll be scattered across new projects once the industry’s gears start whirring again.
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