Modern Family wins its third Emmy award Posted September 23 2012

Modern Family wins its third Emmy award

Modern Family won its third consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series award at the 64th Primetime Emmy awards tonight in Los Angeles.

This was Modern Family's third consecutive nomination and third win. The other contenders for the award this year were HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO's Girls, NBC's 30 Rock, HBO's Veep and CBS' The Big Bang Theory.

The show now joins a select group of shows which have won the award three times: Taxi, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore show and, most recently, 30 Rock.

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