Modern Family is an American television mockumentary sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for ABC. The series is set in Los Angeles, California and it follows the family lives of Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill), his daughter Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen) and his son Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson).
In the series, Claire and her husband Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) have three children named Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter) and Luke (Nolan Gould). Following his divorce from Claire and Mitchell's mother Dede, Jay married a much younger Colombian woman named Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Sofía Vergara) who has one son from her previous marriage named Manny Delgado (Rico Rodriguez). In the fourth season, Gloria gives birth to Fulgencio "Joe" Pritchett (Jeremy Maguire). At the beginning of the series, Mitchell and his husband Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) adopted a Vietnamese-born female child named Lily Tucker-Pritchett (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons).
During the course of the series, 250 episodes of Modern Family aired over eleven seasons, between September 23, 2009, and April 8, 2020.