TWO of the most iconic shows on Australian TV — Modern Family and The Simpsons — have been unceremoniously pulled off the air in the fallout from the collapse of the Ten Network.

Viewers looking forward to the new season of the popular Modern Family have been left scrambling for the remote as Ten was unable to strike a deal with studio giant 21st Century Fox.

And a generation of fans of The Simpsons won’t be able to continue the 25-year tradition, with the latest series also dumped after Ten was believed to have offered too low a price for the Fox programs.

media_camera And for the first time in 25 years, The Simpsons won’t be on 10. media_camera You’ll see less of Modern Family star Sofia Vergara on Ch 10.

Adding to the woes for Ten, which is in administration, is the loss of a raft of its most popular content with Mash, Malcolm In The Middle, Futurama, breakout hit This Is Us and all Fox movies. The new season of the award-winning This Is Us is ­already showing in the Us.

A spokesman for Fox indicated last night Ten and administrators Korda Mentha had sought to cherry pick content and cut the cost of its contractual obligations to Fox. He said Ten — “at the eleventh hour” — wanted to change the deal under which Fox had been providing it with a suite of content. “We did go back and forth but we couldn’t come to an arrangement,” the spokesman said. “The volume of content being proposed didn’t meet our expectations.”

media_camera New episodes of Modern Family, starring Eric Stonestreet and Vergara, were due out in Australia this month.

media_camera The war is finally over for the troops of the 4077th MASH... at least on Aussie screens.

He said Fox would remain open to negotiating new terms with Ten under future CBS ownership, or even with free-to-air networks Seven or Nine. American broadcaster CBS has won creditor approval to take over Ten but the arrangement is not yet finalised.

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The Daily Telegraph last month also revealed several locally made programs, such as Bondi Rescue, may also be for the chop under secret cost-cutting plans to help rival the network.

media_camera Modern Family is not the only program not returning to Aussie screens. media_camera It’s a case of Eat My Shorts for Ch 10.

There were also plans developed by the network to centralise its news services to save money.

A Ten spokesman confirmed the shows were pulled on Monday.

“There are no Fox shows on Ten at this stage,” he said.

Seven did not respond to a request for comment, but it is understood they will evaluate their options.

While new seasons of This Is Us, Modern Family and The Simpsons are already hitting screens in the US, Ten was not able to broadcast the latest episodes while negotiations were still ongoing.