With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

Levitan has also won a CableACE Award and a Writers Guild nomination for The Larry Sanders Show. Career
Levitan worked as a WKOW-TV on-air news reporter and morning anchorman in Madison Wisconsin; and as a copywriter at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago. Steven moved to Hollywood in 1989.

He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me! Stark Raving Mad Stacked Back to You and Modern Family. Steven E. Levitan (born April 6 1962) is an American director screenwriter and producer of television comedies.