There’s a very good chance that all six of last year’s Emmynominees for best supporting comedy actor will return. That means the “Modern Family” trio likely will be back: Ty Burrell,Jesse Tyler Ferguson and 2010 winner Eric Stonestreet.

BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR
(Front-runners)
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Chris Colfer, “Glee”
Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Modern Family”
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”
Nick Offerman, “Parks and Recreation”
Mike O’Malley, “Glee”
Ed O’Neill, “Modern Family”
Oliver Platt, “The Big C”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”

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Crave Online has an interview with Sofia Vergara, here are some of the hightlights:

CraveOnline: You look amazing. Is there anything you don’t look good in?

Sofia Vergara: Well, I don’t look that good in bathing suits anymore.

CraveOnline: But I’m sure it’s still awesome.

Sofia Vergara: Everything is still up there a little bit. Yeah, I would have to say it’s still awesome.

CraveOnline: How important is it for you to be portraying a mixed-race couple on TV?

Sofia Vergara: It’s fantastic. I hope that this new season of TV shows for all the networks, maybe they’ll try to have another Gloria in their cast or that some Latin actress got a job. That would be fantastic. It’s very difficult. Now, it’s less difficult than ever but it’s still, you cannot get as many roles as a normal American person. So for a black actor I’m sure it’s the same.

CraveOnline: I hear you are going to be in the Smurfs movie. Are you a Smurf?

Sofia Vergara: No, no. I’m an executive, a makeup executive. We filmed already in New York during the spring and it’s coming out next summer. Hank Azaria is Gargamel. He looks unbelievable.

CraveOnline: What do you get to do with the Smurfs?

Sofia Vergara: Nothing really. All my scenes are with Gargamel and Neil Patrick Harris. There are Smurfs out there but I don’t see them so I never really have to talk to them which takes hours, those filming with animation.

It’s Saturday, Aug. 21 and time for the Creative Arts Emmys, held a week and a day before the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast. It’s the awards event that honors the people behind the scenes who deserve recognition, but apparently didn’t make the cut to be on the already overflowing live event.

Best Casting of a Comedy Series: “Modern Family”

Best Picture Editing for Comedy Series: “Modern Family”

Best Sound Mixing for Half-Hour Series (Tie): “Entourage” and “Modern Family

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Know what happens we we get Neil Patrick Harris and Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson in the same room? We actually tune in to Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens!

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Principal photography began Friday, March 26, in New York on Columbia Pictures’/Sony Pictures Animation’s hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs, it was announced today by Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Hannah Minghella, president of Sony Pictures Animation and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures.

Audiences everywhere are in for a Smurfy good time as the Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours – in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. The film is set for release August 3, 2011.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria star on camera opposite an all-star voice cast. Anton Yelchin will play Clumsy Smurf; comedy legend Jonathan Winters, who voiced roles in the “Smurfs” television series, will voice Papa Smurf; Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katy Perry will play Smurfette; Alan Cumming will play Gutsy Smurf; “SNL’s” Fred Armisen will voice Brainy Smurf; and George Lopez will play Grouchy Smurf.

Vergara, from “Modern Family”, plays Odile, Harris’s boss, a cosmetics executive.

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Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara has been cast in the upcoming animated/live-action The Smurfs. She will play Odile, a “powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company” married to Neil Patrick Harris’ character. The film, which also stars Jayma Mays (Glee) and Hank Azaria, will begin filming in New York next week. With each awesome actor that gets added to this cast, our frustration that this movie is about blue cartoon Smurfs mounts.

Read more: Industry Roundup: Sofia Vergara Joins Smurfs, Fox Signs Foxx Pilot — Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/industry_roundup_sofia_vergara.html#ixzz0jYqpJvT7

Jesse Tyler Ferguson of ‘Modern Family’ and Kelly Ripa promised to follow each other on Twitter during ‘Live With Regis and Kelly‘, then griped about the large number of Twitter followers that mutual friend Neil Patrick Harris has, and the fact that he has yet to follow either of their Tweets.

So go ahead and follow @JESSETYLER and us the fansite at @modernfamilytv

E! went to the stars of Modern Family and Glee to see if they think their TV shows are doing anything to shape society’s viewpoints of the LGBTQ community, or if it’s purely entertainment.
Here is what Eric said:

“I think [our show] is a great opportunity to educate people. Our goal is to make people laugh, for sure, but while we’re making people laugh, we want to open their minds that two men can raise a baby and give it love, a future and a life. That’s icing on the cake for the show and the role. We just hope people like what we do.”