High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On May 10, 2012, ABC renewed Modern Family for a fourth season. Two months later, after the show received 14 Emmy Award nominations, series creators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd shared some of the story lines with TVLine. The season premiere "is kind of picking up right where we left off, with Gloria`s announcement to the audience that she’s pregnant," says Levitan. "Everybody, as you can imagine, has big reactions to this news, and the whole episode is about that."