It’s National Adoption Day! Look Back at TV’s Most Memorable Adopted Characters
Lily Pritchett-Tucker, ‘Modern Family’
Lucky Lily has two doting daddies, couple Cameron and Mitchell, who adopted her from Vietnam in the series pilot. They sometimes argue over how best to raise her — Cam, for example, has a tough time letting her cry in the night, as the Ferber method of baby-raising suggests, and likes to watch ‘Scarface’ with her (the colors of the movie calm her, he says — but they both love and care for Lily (Ella and Jaden Hiller), as does the rest of the Pritchett/Tucker/Dunphy clan.
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Modern Family – TV.com Best of 2010 Nominee!
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The year is coming to an end – it’s time to vote for the best TV shows and characters of the year in TV.com’s Best of 2010, and Modern Family has been nominated for Best Comedy!
Vote for Modern Family on www.tv.com/bestof2010
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Republicans Love ‘Modern Family,’ Democrats Favor ‘Dexter,’ New Study Shows
‘Modern Family,’ a seemingly liberal show about a blended family – with a gay couple and adopted kids — is among the favorites of Republicans. Say what?
According to a new study by Experian Simmons, Republicans favor many of TV’s biggest hits such as ‘Modern Family,’ ‘American Idol’ and ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ On the Democrat side, TV favorites include ‘Dexter,’ ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Good Wife.’
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‘Modern Family’: Sofia Vergara wants Al Pacino to play father
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Sofia Vergara has more than ambitious plans when it comes to her role in ABC‘s “Modern Family.” As a matter of fact, the Emmy-nominated actress toldWENN that she would love to go after living big-screen legend Al Pacino to play the character of her father:
“In some other season, we should go to Cartagena and meet Gloria’s family in Colombia. I was telling [the producers] that they need to [cast] Al Pacino [as] my father, talking like Tony Montana.”
Source: Examiner
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‘Modern Family’ Sarah Hyland on sharing a bed with Julie Bowen
“Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland is looking forward to Wednesday’s (Nov. 3) episode “Chirp,” when her character Haley spends quality time with her mom Claire (Julie Bowen) when they both fall sick and stay home.
“That’s really cute. Me and Julie in bed all day,” Hyland tells Zap2it. “It was awesome. Just laying down in bed together, which is my boyfriend’s dream. Who doesn’t like Julie Bowen? She’s the sexiest mom alive.”
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‘Modern Family’ joke offends Peruvians
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The people of Peru are not happy with a joke that was featured on this week’s episode of Modern Family, reports The Associated Press.
The controversy stems from Sofia Vergara‘s character, Gloria, who responds to her husband’s quip about Colombia with her own insult. “Ah, here we go,” Gloria begins to respond. “Because, in Colombia, we trip over goats and we kill people in the street. Do you know how offensive that is? Like we’re Peruvians!”
Shortly after the episode aired, Vegara, who like her character is also a native of Colombia, received a large volume of insulting tweets, according to the wire service, with some demanding an explanation for the line.
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‘Modern Family’ upstages the World Series
The “giant” winner for the night was ABC’s quartet of comedies, each of which saw upticks of about 10 percent. In fact, ‘Modern Family’ delivered an all-time high in viewers (13.07 million) and matched its best-ever demos (5.1).
Source: Fancast
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Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland: ‘I’d Watch Even If I Wasn’t On It!’
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Sarah Hyland may play the typical independent, eye-rolling teen onModern Family, but the 19-year-old couldn’t be more different from her text-addict character, Haley Dunphy.
And don’t expect to see her on the cover of the tabloids any time soon. She’s managed to be one of the most grounded young stars in Hollywood. “I don’t go out. I literally stay grounded!” she says.
Hyland talked to Parade.com about her hit show. Plus, the one acting gig she can’t seem live down. Read the interview here.
Alec Baldwin Fights for Right to Marry Modern Family Star
If ya need any more reasons to be convinced that Alec Baldwin is one of the coolest guys out there, here’s another: He not only supports gay marriage, but he’s made a video about it.
In the vid, the 30 Rock stars talks about a certain out gay Modern Family star…
“Lately, I’ve been getting emails, texts and yes, tweets about a video Jesse Tyler Ferguson that’s made the rounds of the internet,” Baldwin says. “On it, Jesse said he and I are getting married in New York next year.”
Read more: E! Online
Sneak Peeks – Modern Family 2.06 “Halloween”
CLAIRE IS LOOKING TO HAVE A FRIGHTFULLY GOOD HALLOWEEN IF ONLY EVERYONE WOULD COOPERATE — ON ABC’S “MODERN FAMILY”
“Halloween” – Claire loves Halloween and is gearing up to spookify the Dunphy house for the trick or treaters. She gives each family member a role to play, but none of it goes quite right… Cameron can’t shake a traumatic childhood experience and hates the holiday, Mitchell has had a terrible day at work, and Gloria is acting weird after Jay and Manny teased her about her accent, on “Modern Family,” WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27 (9:00-9:31 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
“Modern Family” stars Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett, Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Sof’a Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy, Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy, Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy and Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado.
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