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‘Modern Family’: The Story Behind The Mitch & Cam Spinoff That Almost Happened As Eric Stonestreet Reflects On Feeling “Hurt” By ABC’s Pass
It was end of January 2021. Modern Family's long-rumored Mitch & Cam spinoff was on the verge of greenlight. Instead, it got a pass. Here is the story.
It arrived a couple of weeks after a major Disney executive restructuring that saw Hulu’s Head of Originals Craig Erwich adding oversight of ABC Entertainment. It wasn’t like two ancillary writers that were just being like, Hey, we’re looking for a money grab here, and want to do a spinoff, and if it lasts a year, whatever, we made a couple of hundred thousand dollars.” Along with Lloyd and fellow co-creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Steve Levitan, Corrigan and Walsh worked on Modern Family for the show’s entire 11-season run, most of their tenure was as executive producers.
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