Jay Pritchett - Patriarch and owner of a construction supply warehouse, father of Claire, Mitchell and Joe, husband of Gloria, ex-husband of DeDe, stepfather of Manny, father-in-law of Phil and Cameron and grandfather of Haley, Dylan, Alex, Luke, Cal and Lily & Great Grandfather of Poppy & George. Jay's lawyer son Mitchell and his partner Cameron have an adopted Vietnamese daughter, Lily & New U.S. They have three children: Haley, the stereotypical ditzy teenage girl and now married to her boyfriend into new husband Dylan and now ready to raise new twin children are Poppy & George Alex, a nerdy, smart middle child and Luke, the offbeat only son. Jay's daughter Claire is a homemaker married to Phil Dunphy, a real-estate agent and self-professed "cool dad". Patriarch Jay is remarried to a much younger woman, Gloria, a passionate Colombian with whom he has a baby son, Joe Pritchett and a 10-year-old son from Gloria's previous marriage, Manny They also have a pet dog named Stella. The show revolves around three (3 and now Four "4") families are all living in the Los Angeles, CA area who are interrelated through Jay Prichett and his children, Claire and Mitchell. ABC accepted the series and picked it up for a full season. NBC, already broadcasting The Office and Parks and Recreation, decided against taking on a third mockumentary-style show. The network had recently aired Welcome to The Captain and Worst Week, two single-camera sitcoms that lasted only one season (CBS would not attempt another single-camera series until 2013, when it picked up both We Are Men and The Crazy Ones for its fall lineup We Are Men was cancelled after two episodes, The Crazy Ones was also cancelled after one season). CBS, which was not ready to use the single-camera style of filming nor ready to make another large commitment, rejected the series. The creators pitched it to the Big Three television networks (they did not pitch it to Fox because of issues Lloyd had with the network over Back to You). Lloyd now prefers to look at the show as "a family show done documentary-style". The producers later felt that this component was unnecessary, and it was scrapped. It was originally going to be called My American Family, and the camera crew was originally supposed to have been run by a fictitious Dutch filmmaker named Geert Floortje who had lived with Jay's family as a teenage exchange student and developed a crush on Claire (while Mitchell had had a crush on him). They later decided that it could be a show about three families and their experiences. They started working on the idea of a family being observed in a mockumentary-style show. As creators Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan retold stories about their families, they realized that the stories could be the basis for a show.
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