Modern Family

LOS ANGELES — “Modern Family” and “Breaking Bad” triumphed at Monday’s Emmy Awards, proving that established broadcast and cable series retain the power to fend off challenges from upstart online series like “Orange Is the New Black.” The ceremony’s emotional high point came with Billy Crystal’s restrained and graceful remembrance of Robin Williams, who died Aug. 11…

“Modern Family” has done it again, winning the Emmy Award for best comedy series. It’s the fifth year in a row the hit ABC series has bagged the big prize, tying a record winning streak set by “Frasier.” Rivals were “The Big Bang Theory,” ”Louie,” ”Orange Is the New Black,” ”Silicon Valley” and “Veep.”

Laverne Cox has became the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in an acting category. Cox received a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sophia Burset in the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black.” “Orange is the New Black” was also nominated for Best Comedy series, along …

SALT LAKE CITY — “Modern Family” actor Ty Burrell says he sees same-sex marriage in the United States is a “tide that can’t be turned.” Burrell headlined a fundraiser Thursday evening in Salt Lake City to help cover legal costs for couples fighting Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage, lending his celebrity to help a group backed by sitcom co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

LOS ANGELES — David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” has won the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding cast, setting up the con-artist comedy as the film to beat at the Academy Awards.

NEW YORK — “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson married his partner, attorney Justin Mikita in New York City on Saturday.

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union is lobbying for the most prominent gay parents on U.S. television to get married. The campaign aimed at ABC’s “Modern Family” comes as momentum for gay marriage builds in parts of the country.

As state lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois, support has come in from coalitions of LGBT rights organizations, voters, hundreds of local clergy, President Obama — and now — from ABC’s Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

LOS ANGELES — Eric Stonestreet and ABC’s “Modern Family” made Emmy night look easy, capturing awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor and Best Comedy series, respectively, at the annual awards ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

ABC will introduce an ordinary gay male couple raising a Vietnamese baby they have just adopted on Modern Family, a new half hour sitcom premiering this fall on ABC. The show revolves around three families each with a different structure. First there is Phil and Claire, a traditional American family with three kids, and then […]