ABC close to renewing Modern Family? Posted March 23 2012

ABC close to renewing Modern Family?

ABC is reportedly planning to issue early renewals for nine of its scripted programs, including Modern Family, according to a TVLine.com report. Modern Family's renewal would come as no suprise as the show continues to be a critical and rating success.

Michael Ausiello reports that the network is preparing renewals for Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Castle, Suburgatory, Last Man Standing, Happy Endings and The Middle along with Modern Family. ABC's renewals would come hot on the heels of CBS renewing 16 of its shows this past week.

While these renewals are still early, coming outside of the May Upfronts, the renewals have come later than in previous years. The trend had been for many shows to be renewed around the start of the new year, such as Modern Family's third season renewal in January 2011 or its second season renewal in January 2010. It was reported recently that these early renewals, which took care of the popular shows widely regarded as 'sure things', angered the bosses of less popular but still likely to return shows, which didn't receive such early renewals.

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