Modern Family Will End Its Run in 2020 After 11 Seasons on ABC

New network president Karey Burke renews the sitcom for one final season

Karey Burke, who has only been ABC Entertainment president since November, found a way to make some noise during her first executive session at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif.: she has renewed the network’s hit sitcom Modern Family, now in Season 10, for an 11th—and final—season.

So the family comedy, which has been an ABC staple since it debuted in 2009, will air its final episode in 2020. That will be one year after another long-running hit broadcast sitcom, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, ends its own run.

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