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Fall TV: ABC Picks Up New Family Comedy

• May 8, 2009 01:39 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 6 Comments

Modern Family

ABC, which already has renewed a dozen series, has taken another small step toward filling out its fall schedule by granting a 13-episode order to Modern Family, a new mockumentary-style comedy.

Described as "a look at the complications that come with being a family" in today's times, the series boasts an ensemble that includes ... read more

ABC Orders Family Sitcom Pilot

• Aug 28, 2008 08:39 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Back to You producers are coming back to TV — this time on ABC.The Alphabet has snapped up Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd to create an as-yet-untitled comedy about three American families, told through the perspective of a Dutch documentary filmmaker, according to The Hollywood Reporter.How committed is ABC to the series? It's already put in a pilot order with a significant penalty attached.Shot single-camera style and produced by 20th Century Fox, the series will revolve around one traditional family and two untraditional ones — a gay couple with a newly adopted Vietnamese tot; and a May-December couple with a son. The filmmaker is a former foreign exchange student who had stayed with one of the families years ago.The show was inspired by the Levitan and Lloyd's own family lives; both are married with children.In addition to last season's Back to You, the duo had also collaborated on Frasier and Wings. — Joyce Eng read more

"Graphic"

• Nov 24, 2007 05:10 AM ET
• by Todd mason

A pleasant if slight episode a tribute to comics geekery and a reminder of the shabby way that far too many artists outside comics as well as within that community are treated even as their work remains a cash cow for others perhaps not a coincidence that this theme should arise in a show presumably put together as the WGA strike loomedAt a comics convention in Los Angeles but one looking considerably smaller if as diversely attended as Comi-Con an arrogant artist-turned-mogul Miles Sklar Wil Wheaton displays with much ceremony his newly purchased ashcan issue of a fictional important superhero comic from the early 1960s An ashcan issue is one produced solely for trademark andor copyright reasons never meant for public distribution and this one is believed to be the only copy extant A prominent alternative comics creator Seth Marlowe Ben Feldman looks on in disgust until thugs rush in and force Sklar at gunpoint to turn over the comic In the cours read more

Fox Announces Its Fall Schedule

• May 17, 2007 04:43 PM ET
• by TV Guide Editors

The new dramas premiering this fall are K-Ville, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as police officers in post-Katrina New Orleans; and New Amsterdam, the first American television project from Oscar-nominated director/producer Lasse Hallström, featuring newcomer Nikolaj Coster Waldau as a unique New York City homicide detective.The new comedy slated for fall is Back to You, from executive producers Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. Set at a TV news station in Pittsburgh, the sitcom stars Emmy Award-winners Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer, and is directed by James Burrows.The new unscripted series that will premiere this fall include The Search for the Next Great American Band(working title), a reality competition from the producers of American Idol, which will do for undiscovered groups what Idol has done for singers. From the producers of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, Nashville (working title) is an unscripted docu-soap featuring a group of ambitious you... read more

Rob Lowe Reflects on His West Wing Past, a Perfect Present and His Brothers Sisters Future

• Dec 18, 2006 03:00 AM ET
• by Matt Webb Mitovich

Rob Lowe, A Perfect Day

You can't keep a good man down, let alone a fine actor. Rob Lowe, who famously exited The West Wing during its prime, and then ultimately went on to pass up filling McDreamy's scrubs, is at the fore again, amping up ABC's Brothers & Sisters as a senator who has taken a shine to Calista Flockhart's Kitty. What's more, the former Brat Packer stars with Paget Brewster in TNT's A Perfect Day (premiering Monday at 8 pm/ET), a holiday movie in which Robert Harlan, read more