Benjamin Bratt joins “Modern Family”
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What an interesting pick: Zap2it reports that the former “Law & Order” star Benjamin Bratt has signed on to guest-star in the ABC comedy, which was recently picked up for a full season. He’ll be playing the Gloria’s (Vergara) ex-husband. Bratt is coming off the A&E series “The Cleaner,” which was cancelled late last month after two seasons. His other recent credits include “Love in the Time of Cholera,” A&E’s “Andromeda Strain” miniseries and voice work on “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”
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Modern Family – DVD giveaway!
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DVD Giveaway – Worst Wedding Moment
In this week’s episode 4 of Modern Family we will see Dede Pritchett (Shelley Long) offensive toast at the wedding of her ex-husband, Jay, to his young new bride, Gloria. And we want to hear from you what was the worst wedding moment in a wedding that you have been at (or at your wedding).
Giveaway rules:
- Submit your “worst wedding moment story” by posting a comment to this post.
- 200 words or less.
- Spelling and grammer counts.
- One entry per person; if you submit more than one entry, you will be disqualified.
- Provide an email address in the “Email” field (not in the post itself).
- Giveaway is open to US residents only.
- Giveaway rules are subject to change without any notice.
Prize:
- We will pick our favorite entry to receive a DVD of his/her choice from either Married with Children – The Complete First Season
or The Office – Season One
Deadline:
- Submit your story by 12PM PST Friday 10.16.09
This giveaway is sponsored by SimchaBucks — want to know how much money to spend on a wedding gift? Try Simchabucks’ wedding gift calculator.
Update: giveaway closed — winner will be announced soon!
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Modern Family Episode 4 – “The Incident”
In this week’s episode 4 of Modern Family we will meet Dede Pritchett (Shelley Long) Claire and Michell’s mom. Via flashback, we will see Dede’s offensive toast at the wedding of her ex-husband, Jay (Ed O’Neill), to his young new bride, Gloria (Sofía Vergara). This should be great!
Jason Winer talks ‘Modern Family’
Baltimore Sun has an interview with the director and an executive producer of Modern Family, Jason Winer. The pilot that Winer directed, which debuted Sept. 23, was far and away the most-talked-about comedy pilot of the fall and touched on multiculturalism, gay identity and family life.
Here’s what Winer says about the filming of the show: “Instead of a normal comedy where you would be in right up in the actor’s faces with the lenses, I thought, ‘Well, if this is supposed to be a documentary, let’s back way off and really shoot like a documentary.’” So, Winer says, he and the crew “moved way off across the field and used lenses to zoom in on the actors — with all the business of the soccer game running back and forth in front of us.” The result for the viewer: “You make the dialogue feel like it’s captured accidentally and spontaneously,” Winer says.
Full Season for “Modern Family”
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Great news! So although the rating went down this week to 8.5 million, 5.3/8 (Aren’t you watching live? Who uses Tivo/Hulu?), ABC has given full season, nine episode orders to three fall comedies: “Modern Family,” “Cougar Town” and “The Middle.”
We really like “The Middle” (coming from a “flyover state” in the Midwest), so watch it if you haven’t yet; but we love “Modern Family,” and we are very excited for the rest of the season.
Not yet renewed: ABC’s Kelsey Grammer half-hour “Hank,” but that is not a big loss (or a big surprise for that matter given the low ratings).
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Watch Modern Family Episode 3
Here is the full Modern Family Episode 3
Rickey has a good recap of the episode and Alan Sepinwall from The Star-Ledger said the following about this episode:
“Come Fly With Me” wasn’t as laugh-out-loud funny as the first two episodes, though it had its moments, particularly Mitchell’s rapidly-developing love of CostCo (“Cam, what is this place?”) and a milk-mustachioed Manny turning out to be such a good listener for Claire’s problems.
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Modern Family Episode 3 Clips
Courtesy of TV Overmind here are some great clips from tonight’s episode.
“Those cookies smell like heaven” — and what was your favorite quote?
Modern Family’s Steven Levitan Interview
Movie Line has an interview with Modern Family‘s Steven Levitan. Here are some interesting Q&As:
How is running Modern Family different than the shows you’ve run in the past? How have you modified the process?
Well, I’m running it with Christopher Lloyd, so that’s automatically different. We’re sharing the leadership so we have to constantly check in with each other and sometimes battle it out, you know, “Which way are we going to go here?” But otherwise, you hope to make fewer mistakes with time but there are always new mistakes to be made. I’m not as freaked out by all of this as I was at the beginning. It’s becoming more natural to me. We’re just trying to get as far ahead as possible. I always say, that breaking stories is like Indiana Jones and the big ball. You try to get as far ahead as possibly but by the end of the season, that boulder is right behind you.
How long does it take to shoot an episode?
Five days.
Did you have a sense while writing the pilot that ABC was the best place for the show?
We wanted to do a show about family and we thoughtABC was the right place for it. We pitched it around and several people wanted it. ABC wanted it the most and we took it there. We’re not really good at filling orders. We feel like it’s got to come from our hearts and what we want to write about and then you find the right place for it.
And when you pitched it, did you already have the script?
Actually, for the first time ever, for me, I did a Key Note presentation on the computer because we had so many characters. I thought it would be too confusing otherwise for people to keep it all straight. So I used actors that I wanted or liked or pictures of people that looked like what was in our heads and we took it in and said, “This is our show,” and did a five minute Key Note.
Wow. A PowerPoint.
Yeah, the Mac version of PowerPoint. It was cool. We pitched it three places and three places wanted it. It worked.
The biggest concern was, where does this have the best chance of succeeding. ABC, NBC and CBSwanted it. We didn’t pitch it at FOX. And Steve [McPherson] really wanted it and you know, he’s an old friend, and the series just felt like ABC.
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Modern Family Episode 3
MODERN FAMILY Episode 3, “Changes” “Come Fly with Me” (updated 10.07.09: episode name change), will air on Wednesday October 7 at 9:00 p.m.
Video sneak peak can be found in this post.
Episode Synopsis: MODERN FAMILY Episode 3, “Changes” – After some nudging, Jay begrudgingly takes Phil out to fly his new model airplane — that is until a maneuver goes awry. Meanwhile, when Gloria drops Manny off to play with Luke, she ends up volunteering to take Alex dress shopping, and Claire finds herself sitting down for an unexpected brother and sister heart-to-heart with Manny.
Source: Daemons TV
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