{"id":521652,"date":"2026-03-06T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:29:09","slug":"jesse-tyler-ferguson-on-why-he-didnt-want-a-modern-family-spinoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521652\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Why He Didn’t Want A ‘Modern Family’ Spinoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter Modern Family<\/a> ended, there was a Mitch and Cam spinoff at the works at ABC that ultimately got shot down. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new interview, Jesse Tyler Ferguson<\/a> revealed that although he was interested in reprising his role as Mitchell Pritchett in the new series, he felt trepidation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cModern Family ended and then we had a pandemic, you know. I was so excited for this next chapter of my life, and then it was like, everyone go inside,\u201d Ferguson said on the Dinner\u2019s On Me<\/a> podcast said while speaking with The Goldbergs alum Wendi McLendon-Covey.<\/p>\n

\n\tFerguson said that producers \u201cbrewing this idea of maybe doing a Modern Family spinoff with [Eric Stonestreet] and I, which I was interested in, but I was also supposed to do this play in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe spinoff would have seen Ferguson and Stonestreet reprising their Modern Family roles as they made a life in Missouri. Ferguson and Stonestreet starred in the ABC comedy for 11 seasons, which ended its run in 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt sort of felt like, as the reality of, maybe the spinoff was actually going to happen, I literally felt like, Oh my god, I want to date other people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter playing the same character for over a decade, Ferguson wanted to explore other areas of acting and \u201cfeel what it\u2019s like not to do that,\u201d but ultimately, \u201cit ended up not working out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2024, Stonetreet opened up about his feelings after ABC opted not to move forward<\/a> with the spinoff.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said, \u2018No.\u2019 They just said, \u2018We don\u2019t want to do it,’\u201d he said in an interview<\/a> with Graham Bensinger. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cI love my character. I love the show. I love Jesse. We had a great working relationship, we had amazing chemistry. I think Jesse and I maybe felt like they thought of us as the old guys, or something like that, that didn\u2019t seem worthy of keeping those characters going. It felt a little hurtful. But people make business decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStonetreet felt that the new series \u201cwould have been a slam dunk,\u201d adding, \u201c\u201dWe had the right people in place. It would have been great. If ABC would have said \u2018Let\u2019s do it,\u2019 I think we\u2019d be on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Modern Family ended, there was a Mitch and Cam spinoff at the works at ABC that ultimately…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,47587,47584,427],"class_list":["post-521652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jesse-tyler-ferguson","tag-modern-family","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}