QUICK TAKE

MATTHEW BRODERICK TO GUEST STAR IN THE UPCOMING FOURTH SEASON OF ABC'S HIT COMEDY, "MODERN FAMILY"

Tony Award-winning film and stage actor Matthew Broderick ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "The Producers") will make a guest appearance on the new season of "Modern Family." Broderick will play a neurotic new friend of Phil's in an upcoming episode for the fourth season of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy. "Modern Family" returns on September 26 and airs Wednesdays from 9:00-9:30 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.

"Modern Family" stars Ed O'Neill as Jay, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Nolan Gould as Luke, Ariel Winter as Alex, Rico Rodriguez as Manny and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily.

The series is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd are the creators/executive producers. Danny Zuker, Dan O'Shannon, Bill Wrubel, Paul Corrigan, Brad Walsh, Abraham Higginbotham and Jeffrey Richman also serve as executive producers.