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Modern Family boss breaks down finale episode and confirms "preliminary" spin-off talks

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From Digital Spy

Modern Family spoilers follow.

After 11 seasons, Modern Family has flown the TV nest, ending its 250-episode run in the US yesterday (April 8), but is this the last we'll see of the Dunphy-Pritchett-Tucker families?

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the emotional – and open-ended – series finale, Modern Family's co-creator Christopher Lloyd admitted that the show's decision to end on Phil and Claire's illuminated porch light was more than a symbolic one.

"The intention of that image was more to make people imagine that the family will reunite. That's a lovely thing people have in their lives when they move on, that there's a home base, and that you can come back to that base," Lloyd explained.

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"To even just know that that light is on can do wonders for you wherever you are in the world. So it was a hopeful image both for Phil and Claire to know that their kids are going to come back and everybody's going to come back at some point."

A reunion is not a given, though, with Lloyd adding that it was not the sitcom's "intention" to promise that fans would "literally see these characters again".

"It was much more that these characters will live on in our audience's mind," he offered. "But it was not meant to say, 'We will absolutely see this family constituted again.'

"Does that mean we won't? It doesn't mean that. It's possible. But if it doesn't happen, it seemed like a nice little uplifting image for the end."

(TV just loves an ambiguous ending, doesn't it?)

Photo credit: ABC
Photo credit: ABC

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Suggesting that the Modern Family door is at the very least ajar, Lloyd also revealed that there have been some "very preliminary conversations about spinning off some characters" behind the scenes.

"That could be a year from now, we catch up with one or two or three people and then other characters from the show perhaps drop in," he mused, before adding yet another caveat: "It could be something like that. But I don't want to suggest that that's a real thing, because it isn't yet. It's a thing we knock around."

Modern Family's series finale aired on ABC in the US. The show airs on Sky One and NOW TV in the UK.


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