Eric Stonestreet Is Developing a Truck Stop Comedy for ABC Called ‘Big Stop’

Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet is getting into the producer game. Deadline reports that Stonestreet has teamed up with The Bernie Mac Show/Modern Family writer Jerry Collins to produce a multi-cam workplace comedy for ABC called Big Stop set in Stonestreet’s native state of Kansas. The comedy – which was inspired by Collins accompanying Stonestreet on a Fourth of July trip to Kansas a few years ago – will be “a modern take on family and today’s current issues as seen through the lens of a bustling Kansas truck stop where stories and characters, like big rigs, come rolling in off the highway everyday.� Stonestreet also expressed an interest in producing more projects in his post-Modern Family future: “When my great days on the show end, I’d like to have the opportunity to continue to create and produce and get a show on the air one day that is hopefully as good as Modern Family.�