If You Liked Modern Family, Watch These Next
Finished Modern Family (2009) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Modern Family, most of them are comedy.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Unhappily Ever After(1995)
7.0ComedyAlso comedy
A not-so-happy family is divided further when the father gets a schizophrenic disorder. Jack Malloy is the hallucinating father who works at a used car lot. Jennifer "Jennie" Slattery Malloy is the mother who hates Ryan and Ross, her two sons. Ryan Malloy is the oldest son who is not too bright. Tiffany Malloy is the…
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2.Step by Step(1991)
7.8ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Step by Step is an American television sitcom with two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family
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3.Malcolm in the Middle(2000)
8.5ComedyAlso comedy
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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4.Are We There Yet?(2010)
6.5ComedyAlso comedy
Are We There Yet? opens where the popular film of the same name left off, with Nick and Suzanne newly married. After six months, their family is beginning to show growing pains, from the complexities of life as newlyweds to weathering the storm of teenage children. Work makes life all the more complicated. Former…
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5.Life in Pieces(2015)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are…
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6.Clarissa Explains It All(1991)
7.8ComedyKidsFamilyAlso comedy
Clarissa Darling is a teen girl dealing with typical pre-adolescent concerns such as school, boys, pimples, wearing her first training bra and an annoying little brother Ferguson.
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7.Life with Derek(2005)
7.0FamilyComedyAlso comedy
Life with Derek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on Family and VRAK.TV in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. The series starred Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the two oldest…
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8.The Conners(2018)
7.0ComedyAlso comedy
This iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America.
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9.Stuck in the Middle(2016)
7.7ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Harley is an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a large family of seven kids.
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10.Trophy Wife(2013)
6.3ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
The third time's the charm, they say, and reformed party girl Kate is hoping that's true when she becomes the third wife of a slightly older man, Pete. They fell into each others' arms (literally) at a karaoke bar, and flash forward a year later, Kate finds herself with an instafamily complete with three stepchildren…
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11.Leave It to Beaver(1957)
6.9ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic…
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12.Happy Endings(2011)
6.9ComedyAlso comedy
A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together break up on their wedding day. The failed wedding forces them all to question their life choices. Then there are Alex and Dave themselves, who strike a truce and must…
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13.Major Dad(1989)
6.5ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Major Dad is an American sitcom created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from 1989 to 1993 on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna Reed as his wife Polly. The cast also includes Beverly Archer, Matt Mulhern, Jon Cypher, Marisa…
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14.All of Us(2003)
7.1ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Robert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and thoroughly modern in his thinking. Recently divorced from the somewhat self-absorbed Neesee, the mother of their endearing 6-year-old son, Robert refuses to buy into the old stereotype that being divorced means…
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15.Drake & Josh(2004)
8.4ComedyAlso comedy
Fifteen-year-old Drake and Josh are schoolmates, but not close friends. Drake views Josh as weird and a bit of a goof. So, imagine Drake's shock when he finds out that this "goof" is about to become his new step-brother and roommate when his mother marries Josh's father. A spin off of The Amanda Show.
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16.Mama's Family(1983)
7.5ComedyAlso comedy
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.
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17.American Housewife(2016)
7.7ComedyAlso comedy
A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
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18.Good Luck Charlie(2010)
7.9ComedyFamilyKidsAlso comedy
The Duncans a European-American family in Colorado is adjusting to the surprise birth of their fourth child, Charlie. When parents Amy and Bob return to work they put their latest addition in the care of her three older siblings, PJ, Teddy, and Gabe. Teens PJ and Teddy and tween brother Gabe are typical kids -- that…
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19.The Jeffersons(1975)
7.3ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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20.According to Jim(2001)
6.5ComedyAlso comedy
Jim is the typical all-American guy — a macho "everyman" — with a soft spot for his beautiful wife and children. Jim's boyish bravado and humorous antics keep a certain level of turmoil in their home, but there's never a doubt that this "opposites attract" couple are in their marriage for keeps!
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