FORMER AL BUNDY CHEWING THE FAT
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Ed O’Neill, beefy star of ABC sitcom “Modern Family,” says there’s nothing wrong with being overweight.
“I think you’re worse off being too thin,” says O’Neill, 63, who has a black belt in Brazilian-style jujitsu. “To be overweight is not that unhealthy. You see those Midwestern waitresses, strong as bulls, they live until they’re in their 90s. Hollywood is so obsessed with thin that it is a sickness.”
O’Neill, whose most famous TV role was the uncouth Al Bundy on “Married With Children,” is not into low-cal treats. “Health food ice cream?” he asks. “Why even eat it?”
His idea of health food? “I like wine,” he says proudly.
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Stonestreet to turn on Mayor’s Christmas tree
A star is born – we wish Eric luck with his new responsibility as reported by the kansascity.com:
Piper graduate Eric Stonestreet, the breakout star of the new comedy “Modern Family” on ABC, will flip the switch on the Mayor’s Christmas Tree at Crown Center Nov. 27.
“Modern Family” is the season’s top-rated new sitcom and for the past two weeks has been the highest-rated Wednesday night series on any network.
Recent honorees chosen to light the Mayor’s Christmas tree include former Kansas City Chief Jared Allen, KMBC’s Johnny Rowlands and musical great Oleta Adams.
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Modern Family Review on Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine has a review of Modern Family TV show; here are some parts of it:
In ABC’s Modern Family, the funniest new sitcom of the season, the titular family is an extended one. Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen play Phil and Claire, a suburban couple with three children; Claire’s father has recently married a much younger Latina bombshell and Claire’s gay brother has just adopted a baby girl with his partner. A lesser show would have focused on the nuclear family, with wacky interludes and complications brought on by the unconventional secondary characters, but what is refreshing (and truly modern) about Modern Family is how all of its characters are given equal time and importance. And by extension, how all of the actors are given an opportunity to shine in their respective roles.
It’s a testament to the strong writing that, six episodes in, my favorite character has changed several times. Ty Burrell has been consistently funny as Phil, a cheerful dad completely oblivious not only to the embarrassment he causes himself but to the embarrassment he piles onto his wife and children. As he says to the camera at one point (the show is shot in the faux-documentary style of The Office): “Claire likes to say that you can be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I happen to believe that you can be both.” He delivers the line with pride, yet the endearing way he causes problems, then tries to fix them, makes him both the fleeting heart of the show and its most clichéd character.
Other standouts include Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet as new parents Mitchell and Cameron. Neither is defined by their gayness, but they are not made to act straight to prove a point either. Mitchell is buttoned-up and anxious while Cameron is big and boisterous, a man who loves to eat, loves football, and who presents his adopted daughter to a family gathering while wearing an African robe and playing “Circle of Life” from The Lion King. My current favorite character, however, is Manny (Rico Rodriguez), the 11-year-old son of Gloria (Sofia Vergara), the new wife of the family’s patriarch (Ed O’Neill, both gruff and decent). Manny is an old soul, a kid who drinks coffee to honor his Colombian heritage, and who would rather have a heart-to-heart with Claire than play with her kids.
Read the full story at Slant Magazine.
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Good Job Modern Family
ABC POSTS ITS BEST VIEWER AND YOUNG ADULT NUMBERS IN 4 WEEKS
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“Modern Family” Hits Series Highs in Adults 18-34, Key Men, Teens and Kids
Up Year to Year, ABC is Thursday’s No. 1 Non-Sports Network in Adults 18-49.
Rankings: ABC claimed 7 of the week’s Top 20 shows in Adults 18-49, including TV’s Top 2 scripted programs with “Grey’s Anatomy” (top for 5th time in 6 weeks) and “Desperate Housewives”: “Grey’s Anatomy” No. 6, “Desperate Housewives” No. 8, “Modern Family” No. 12, “Dancing with the Stars” and “Private Practice” tied at No. 15 and “Home Edition” and “Brothers & Sisters” tied at No. 20. The Net aired 4 of the week’s Top 15 most-watched television programs overall: “DWTS” No. 5, “DWTS Results” No. 11, “Housewives” No. 12 and “Grey’s” No. 13. “DWTS” stood as the most-watched non-sports program of the week. ABC once again delivered the Top 2 TV shows for the week across all key Women demos (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54) with “Grey’s” and “Housewives.” ABC aired TV’s Top 4 freshman series during the week with Adults 18-49, with “Modern Family,” “Cougar Town,” “FlashForward” and “The Middle,” respectively.
Wednesday
ABC finished as the No. 1 non-sports network on Wednesday night among Adults 18-49 (2.4/6).
Despite going up against Game 1 of the 2009 World Series (NY Yankees-Philadelphia Phillies) on the night, ABC posted its highest-rated Wednesday in 4 weeks (since 9/30/09) among Adults 18-49, surging by 9% over the prior week (2.4/6 vs. 2.2/6). In fact each of ABC’s Wednesday series increased week to week.
With “Modern Family” and “Cougar Town,” ABC delivered the Top 2 series telecasts on Wednesday across the key Adult demos (AD18-34/AD18-49/AD25-54).
“Modern Family” (9:00-9:30 p.m.)
Shooting up from its lead-in by 68% in Adults 18-49, ABC’s “Modern Family” beat out its non-sports competitors at 9:00pm to qualify as the No. 1 TV series of the night (3.7/9).
“Modern Family” was up week to week in Total Viewers (+7%) Adults 18-49 (+9%), hitting its best young adult number in 4 weeks since 9/30/09. Although it faced the World Series, the freshman ABC comedy achieved series-high numbers in Adults 18-34, key Men (M18-34/M18-49), Teens 12-17 and Kids 2-11.
“Modern Family” is exhibiting big increases over its first-reported numbers through DVR playback, jumping by 1.2 million viewers and by an additional 7-tenths of an Adult 18-49 rating point from the initially reported Live + Same Day Numbers to the Live + 7 Day DVR finals.
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First Look: Elizabeth Banks Drops By MODERN FAMILY
We know that Elizabeth Banks is coming to Modern Family on November 18, now TVaddicts brings some pictures. In the episode “Great Expectations” she will be dropping by old-friends Mitchell and Cameron’s house to take them out for a long overdue night on the town. “We haven’t seen Sal [Banks] in a while because we’ve been so busy with the baby,” explained Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell) in a recent interview with theTVaddict.com, “We decide to go out for a night of drinking together and she just kind of crumbles into this heaping mess of drunken nausea.”
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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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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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