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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Sofia Vergara Interview [source: Crave Online]
Sofia Vergara, who plays Gloria Delgado-Pritchett On Modern Family, has an interview in Crave Online.
Here are some interesting Q&As:
Crave Online: Does Modern Family match your sense of humor?
Sofia Vergara: Yeah. I’ve done a lot of comedy but it’s pretty much in the same kind of stuff. The character is great because it’s very easy for me because she’s a Latin woman from Colombia. She has kind of like my personality so it’s fun.
Crave Online: It’s great that your character is Colombian like you. Have you been asked to play other types of Latinas that felt distant to you?
Sofia Vergara: No, not really distant because Latin people, we’re all kind of the same but we have specific differences like foods or music. But I think our personalities are all in general the same. We all have the same values with family. We all have the same morals so it’s like all the same.
Crave Online: Is your character a trophy bride or is there more to their relationship?
Sofia Vergara: I think in a way it’s a trophy wife to Ed which I think is perfectly good. I think it’s very normal and it doesn’t have to be taken as something bad I think because it’s a reality of course. Any man that age that has opportunity to marry a woman like her would do it, you know. If she’s a good woman, somebody that is going to do good things for his life. Obviously, this is a couple that they share other things in common and other things not in common. But I think she doesn’t care about that because he’s very good to her and she is good to him.
Read the full interview in Crave Online.
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Pick up: ‘Modern Family’
Metromix has ranked all the new fall shows and the verdict for Modern Family is “Pick up”. Here is what they have to say about Modern Family:
Premiere ratings: 12.7 million viewers, 8.0/13 overall
Most recent ratings: 9.99 million viewers, 3.8/10 overall
In plain English: “Modern Family” had a surprisingly strong start, and has continued on that track in its following weeks.
None of ABC’s attempts at comedy this fall are going over quite as well as “Modern Family.” The mockumentary-style sitcom about a dysfunctional clan is one Liza Minnelli cameo shy of a well-deserved “Arrested Development” comparison. Cancellation would be a crime.
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Modern Family Episode 3 – Sneak Peeks
Here are some peeks at Modern Family Episode 3:
Looks great – we can’t wait…
Going to a wedding?
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