PICK OF THE DAY: Modern Family S5 – Wednesday 27 November at 8:30pm | M-Net

Modern Family is a comedy series about the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan,  a wonderfully large and blended family with Jay Pritchett sitting at the head. By his side is his young, vivacious, second wife Gloria, who resists his old-fashioned ways – an impulse that will become all the more interesting now that he and Gloria have a new baby of their own.

This exciting addition will bring more adventures to the family just as Gloria’s son, Manny, is about to embark on an adventure of his own as he enters high school. Jay’s grown daughter, Claire, and her husband, Phil, also have their son, Luke, heading to high school; their middle daughter, Alex, is full steam ahead on the college track, and the eldest, Haley, is back home figuring out her future.

And this will be a big year for Claire’s brother and Jay’s grown son, Mitchell, who alongside his loving partner, Cameron, and daughter, Lily, will have a lot of reasons to celebrate. Together these three families give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.