The popular US series Modern Family will now have international counterparts, as its Greek and Chilean remakes – Moderna Oikogeneia and Familia Moderna – go global.

While their trip to Australia may not have gone down as the best moment in their five-year history, the hit US comedy producers have ambitiously cast their eyes further afield.

Two new international remakes of the series are being launched – Chile’s Familia Moderna and Greece’s Moderna Oikogeneia – and the studio is keen to make more.

The remakes will copy the scripts of the hit series, but feature local actors in the roles of Jay and Gloria, Clare and Phil, Mitch and Cameron and their kids.

In Greece they will be known as Takis and Carmen, Faye and Philip and Dimitris and Labros.

The deals, for one of America’s highest profile network TV comedies, symbolise the emerging power of the “scripted format”, where a broadcaster buys a foreign scripted comedy or drama and adapts it for a local audience.

In the past, most formats bought and sold on the international market were in the reality genre, such as The X Factor, The Voice, Dancing with the Stars or Pop Idol.