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Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sofia Vergara, et al. to Star in ABC’s Moden Family

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

ABC will air the new sitcom Modern Family, featuring theater veterans Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Ty Burrell and current Chicago star Sofia Vergara, beginning this fall.

The network has ordered 13 episodes of the series, which follows the lives of three American families, as seen through the eyes of a filmmaker. One home centers on a traditional nuclear family, another is a gay couple with a newly adopted Vietnamese child; and the third consists of an older man who has just married a younger Latina wife.

The series is also scheduled to star Ed O’Neill, Julie Bowen, and Eric Stonestreet.