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Steven Levitan Latest News

Birth Name:Steven E. Levitan

Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession Writer, TV series creator, producer

Mega Buzz: A Girls Boy, Castle's Miley Homage and a Downton Wedding

Every week, senior reporter Natalie Abrams satisfies your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com or tweet them to @NatalieAbrams. What can you tell us about the new season of Girls? — Leona Elijah (Andrew Rannells), Hannah's complicated roommate, will resurface with a new boyfriend in tow. Pal (ironic name alert!) is played by Buffy alum Danny Strong — who's also an Emmy winner for writing HBO's Sarah Palin movie Game Change — and he sounds like a handful. "I don't know if Hannah's a fan," Strong says. "I don't know if any of Elijah's friends are fans of Pal." What's coming up on Castle? — GingerNATALIE: The "September" wedding is still a long way off. In the meantime, on Monday's episode, the death of...

Tue, Jan 14, 2014

Mega Buzz: A Girls Boy, Castle's Miley Homage and a Downton Wedding

Modern Family Is Heading to Australia!

The Modern Family clan is going down under! Thanks to a partnership with Qantas airlines, the ABC comedy will film an upcoming family vacation in Australia, TVGuide.com has learned. Qantas will fly the cast and crew out in...

Wed, Jan 8, 2014

ABC Considering Modern Family Spin-Off

Fresh off Modern Family's fourth Emmy win for best comedy series, ABC is in early talks for a spin-off series, Deadline reports. While there are still many ideas being considered, one potential concept is for the new series to focus on guest star Rob Riggle, who played Phil's (Ty Burrell) nemesis Gil Thorpe in two episodes last season.

Sat, Sep 28, 2013

Mega Buzz: Scandal's Mistress-gate, a Five-0 Loss, and Once's Trip to Neverland

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com or tweet them to @adambryant or @NatalieAbrams. Did you get any juicy Scandal scoop when you were on set? — Laura  NATALIE: Olivia Pope might be the First Mistress, but it's her co-workers who will bear the brunt of that revelation in the season premiere. "It makes it hard because they go from being people who manage other people's crises to people who have to manage their own crisis in a big way," Kerry Washington tells me. "When Olivia herself is at the center of it, it really challenges everybody. It's hard for them to figure out what their roles are. If she's the client, how can she be the boss? Who gets to make the rules?" Got any more teases about the Hawaii Five-0 premiere? — Lindsay ADAM: Look for McGarrett to be very proactive in his efforts to find out exactly what Wo Fat's connection is to his mother. Since he can't get a straight answer from anyone in the know, he begins investigating his own hypothesis....

Wed, Sep 25, 2013

Mega Buzz: Scandal's Mistress-gate, a Five-0 Loss, and Once's Trip to Neverland

Ellen Pompeo Criticizes "Dated" Emmys for Lack of Diversity

Everybody seems to be taking issue with Sunday's Emmys ceremony. Following Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan, who called it "the saddest Emmys of all time," Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo tells USA Today she was "really...

Tue, Sep 24, 2013

Ellen Pompeo Criticizes "Dated" Emmys for Lack of Diversity

Keck's Exclusives: Modern Family's New Opener

The writers of Modern Family haven't yet begun plotting next season's stories, but already I have scoop on the premiere episode. The ABC sitcom is planning to shoot new opening credits to show how the cast members, especially the child actors, have changed.

Mon, Jun 10, 2013

Keck's Exclusives: Modern Family's New Opener

The Wednesday Playlist: Middle, Modern and Other Finales

On this final night of the official broadcast season, let's focus on the good times, shall we? Two of TV's finest comedies, ABC's underappreciated The Middle and the much-honored Modern Family, go out with a flourish, and perhaps a sniffle or two, as the Heck and Dunphy/Pritchett clans experience life-changing and/or affirming ceremonies likely to strike home for many viewers.

Wed, May 22, 2013

The Wednesday Playlist: Middle, Modern and Other Finales

TV Guide Magazine's 60th Anniversary Special: The Past, Present and Future of Television

In our very first issue, TV Guide Magazine polled the top names in TV — including Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason and Sid Caesar — on what the new medium had taught them. "TV is a great way to reach millions of people — who, luckily, can't reach me," Berle quipped. For 60 years, this publication has chronicled the evolution of what remains the world's most dominant source of entertainment. And while viewers now have hundreds of channels at their fingertips and can watch whatever they want, whenever they want, on a multitude of platforms, one thing hasn't changed: Audiences are hungry for great fare, from I Love Lucy to Modern Family and Playhouse 90 to Homeland. We spoke to 13 titans of TV and asked them a few questions about where TV has been, what it looks like now and where it's headed. 

Tue, Apr 2, 2013

TV Guide Magazine's 60th Anniversary Special: The Past, Present and Future of Television

Super Bowl Review: Beyonce´ as MVP!

If only they'd blacked out the ads. What a bizarre Super Bowl Sunday it was, from the oddly imbalanced game to the 34-minute Superdome power outage that separated the Ravens blowout of the first half from the 49ers blowout of the second half, pushing a fairly gripping Elementary episode past prime time on the East Coast.

Mon, Feb 4, 2013

Gloria's Pregnancy! Haley's Exit! 10 Questions with Modern Family Boss Steve Levitan

That wasn't a fake-out in Modern Family's season finale: Gloria really is pregnant, and Jay really will be a father once again. When the Emmy-winning comedy returns Wednesday (9/8c on ABC), Gloria (Sofia Vergara) and Jay Jay (Ed O'Neill) will reveal the big news to the Dunphy-Pritchett clan. In a moment of symmetry, the Dunphys will be dealing with the loss of one of their children, as Haley (Sarah Hyland) departs for college. To get the scoop on the new season, TVGuide.com talks to series co-creator Steve Levitan, who also clears up the recent Romney jab...

Wed, Sep 26, 2012

Gloria's Pregnancy! Haley's Exit! 10 Questions with Modern Family Boss Steve Levitan