Faster than an express Christmas, Modern Family’s contract renegotiation impasse is over.
The adult members of the ABC sitcom’s cast have settled their dispute with 20th Century Fox Television, and production of the Emmy-winning series’ Season 4 is back to normal.
The first hint that the talent and the Powers That Be would come to terms happened at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills Friday. ABC President Paul Lee said he expected the comedy’s season would begin when it was scheduled to, despite a contract-voiding lawsuit filed earlier in the week by stars Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sofia Vergara and a hastily rescheduled table read (that, in the end, the entire cast attended). “We are hopeful and optimistic that we’ll be able to resolve it,” Lee said.
With 14 nominations, Modern Family is the most-lauded scripted comedy series going into this year’s Emmys.
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