{"id":318439,"date":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318439\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","slug":"jesse-tyler-ferguson-explains-why-he-didnt-want-to-do-modern-family-spinoff-focused-on-mitch-cam-jesse-tyler-ferguson-modern-family-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318439\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Tyler Ferguson Explains Why He Didn\u2019t Want to Do \u2018Modern Family\u2019 Spinoff Focused on Mitch & Cam | Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Tyler Ferguson<\/a> is explaining why he\u2019s glad the Modern Family<\/a> spinoff series fell through.<\/p>\n

When the Emmy-winning comedy series came to an end in April 2020, a spinoff centered around Mitch (Ferguson) and Cam (Eric Stonestreet<\/a>) as they moved to Missouri was in the works, but ABC ended up passing on the idea.<\/p>\n

During the Thursday (March 5) episode of his Dinner\u2019s On Me podcast<\/a>, Jesse explained why he\u2019s glad the spinoff didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026\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 Jesse explained, noting that producers \u201cbrewing this idea of maybe doing a Modern Family spinoff with [him and Stonestreet].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was interested,\u201d Jesse continued. \u201cBut I was also supposed to do this play in New York,\u201d he explained, \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<\/p>\n

After playing Mitchell Pritchett for more than a decade, Jesse said that he was ready to explore other roles, noting that he wanted to \u201cfeel what it\u2019s like not to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview from 2024, Eric shared his idea for a possible Modern Family special<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Tyler Ferguson is explaining why he\u2019s glad the Modern Family spinoff series fell through. When the Emmy-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-318439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}