‘Modern Family’: The Story Behind The Mitch & Cam Spinoff That Almost Happened As Eric Stonestreet Reflects On Feeling “Hurt” By ABC’s Pass
deadline.comIt was the end of January 2021. Modern Family‘s long-rumored Mitch & Cam spinoff was on the verge of a green light. Instead, it got a pass.Years later, star Eric Stonestreet calls that decision by ABC “a little hurtful” and believes the offshoot would’ve been a “slam dunk” and, if picked up, still be on the air right now.
Co-written by Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Christopher Lloyd and longtime executive producers Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, the proposed spinoff was to chronicle Mitch (Jesse Tylor Ferguson) and Cam (Stonestreet)’s new life with their kids in Missouri. “Chris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said ‘no’.
They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it,” Stonestreet said in an interview with Graham Bensinger. “And I think it hurt Jesse and I’s feelings.
I think it hurt Chris Lloyd’s feelings.” The idea for a Mitch and Cam spinoff series set in Cam’s home state of Missouri had been bandied about for months when the Modern Family April 2020 finale further fueled speculation by sending the pair and their kids there after Cam got a dream coaching job. “It does present a possibility for us” to do a spinoff, Lloyd told Deadline after the finale about the decision to have Mitch, Cam and the kids move to Missouri. “Will that happen?
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