Modern Society

Modern Society is an Martonian comedy-drama television series created by Robert Jamison for NBN. The series depicts the everyday lives of the dysfunctional lower middle class Yorkham family—father Frank (Quinton Beresford) and his five children—at the fictional River Palm Apartments in Nacawoga, Brunova.

The series was developed by Jamison, David Yeager, and Perry Gregor; Jamison and (in later seasons) Yeager were the show's executive producers. Filming took place both on set and on location in Sarasota, Kentona. Modern Society was produced by Jamison's Videopark Productions in association with NBN Studios.

The show was broadcast on NBN from September 22, 2003 to March 16, 2011, running for nine seasons and 204 episodes. It received positive reception from both critics and general viewers, who praised it for its acting, continuity, emotional weight, and realistic depiction of lower middle class Martonians. It won two MFTA Awards, five Krypton Awards, seven Freddy Awards, and eight Velvet Awards, and was met with various other nominations.

Premise
The series follows the Yorkham family: father Frank (Quinton Beresford), first daughter Louise (Evelyn Marquez), first son Bailey (Bruce Lyndon), second son Justin (Steven France), second daughter Erica (Diane Bordeira), and third son Hayden (Cameron Peterson).

Following his wife's death, Frank turned to alcohol for his coping mechanism, turning him into an unemployed deadbeat whose variously aged children must take care of each other.