Rico Rodriguez News

ED O'NEILL , left, and Rico Rodriguez star in the season finale of "Modern Family" at 9 p.m. on ABC .

In an undated file photo released by ABC, from left, Sofia Vergara portrays Gloria, left, Ed O'Neill portrays her husband Jay, and Rico Rodriguez portrays her son Manny in a scene from "Modern Family." For the fall 2012 schedule, there is a resurgence of situation comedies on network television, such as ABC's critical hit and most popular scripted ... (more)

In an undated file photo released by ABC, from left, Sofia Vergara portrays Gloria, left, Ed O'Neill portrays her husband Jay, and Rico Rodriguez portrays her son Manny in a scene from "Modern Family." For the fall 2012 schedule, there is a resurgence of situation comedies on network television, such as ABC's critical hit and most popular scripted ... (more)

The resurgence of situation comedies is the clearest trend to emerge from TV's helter-skelter week of fall schedule announcements that just concluded.

In this Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011 file photo, Rico Rodriguez, left, and Sofia Vergara pose backstage after winning the award for outstanding comedy series for "Modern Family" at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

We're not going to lie: when we caught up with the Modern Family cast at their PaleyFest event earlier this spring, we were super excited to hear all about their special "Disneyland" episode.