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Modern Family‘s Eric Stonestreet has said he conceived a spin-off idea for the show that got shot down and will likely never materialise.Stonestreet’s idea would have followed the lives of Cameron (Stonestreet), Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and their daughter, Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons), after leaving California for Missouri.However, the sitcom star has suggested that the window of opportunity for the spin-off has now passed.“I don’t think it’s potential anymore,” Stonestreet said in an in-depth interview with Graham Bensinger. “They had their chance. [Series co-creator] Chris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said, ‘No.’ They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.’”This decision ultimately led to “hurt” feelings for Ferguson, Lloyd, and himself.“I love my character.

Graham Bensinger, the Emmy-winning actor, 53, talked about the axed spinoff, which would have followed Cameron (Stonestreet), his husband, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and their daughter, Lily (Aubrey Anderson Emmons), after their family left California and headed to Missouri. “I don’t think it’s potential anymore,” Stonestreet said about the show. “They had their chance.

Eric Stonestreet is opening up about the scrapped Modern Family spinoff.

Things aren’t looking great for Eric Stonestreet and his work husband.

It was the end of January 2021. Modern Family‘s long-rumored Mitch & Cam spinoff was on the verge of a green light. Instead, it got a pass.

hosted a little reunion for America's favorite extended family. I'm talking, of course, about the , who all (minus one) got together for a “nearly perfect” gathering.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Group photos posted to Instagram show nearly the full cast, including , Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rico Rodriguez, , Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. The only person missing was Ty Burrell, who played Phil Dunphy on the show, but he was there in spirit, in the form a framed photograph the rest of the cast posed with in the group shots.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Nick Panella has been named the leader of a new podcast and audio group at Agency for the Performing Arts, Variety can report exclusively.  Panella joins the company from Workhouse Media, where he worked extensively with names like Shonda Rhimes, Ellen DeGeneres, “Modern Family” co-creator Chris Lloyd and Oprah Winfrey.  Announced by APA’s head of content development Kyle Loftus, the hire is yet another strategic move from the agency to pick up slack lost in CAA’s acquisition of ICM Partners, the hulking-up of Endeavor, and other dramatic shifts in the representation landscape. Panella has produced over 2,000 podcast episodes and led Workhouse clients to over 1 billion downloads, the agency said.

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Television will get a lot funnier next season thanks to Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer.

Modern Family may now be over after 11 seasons, but its impact on TV will likely never be forgotten.  When the show started in 2009, it felt somewhat groundbreaking. There weren't a lot of gay couples adopting babies on screen, and there weren't a lot of family shows with quite the same tone as the one Modern was offering.