The new series Speechless on ABC focuses on the mother of the DiMeo family as she tries to do what she feels is right for her family, especially her son with special needs

This may not seem like anything extraordinary, but just a decade ago, a good family sitcom was hard to find.

Family-oriented shows were a very popular genre in the late 20th century but were overtaken at the turn of the century by reality shows and entertainment TV.

However, these much-loved family shows have recently made a comeback to television.

Along with Speechless, American Housewife is also new to ABC this fall.

American Housewife is about the mother of the Otto family as she is an average American woman trying to stand out among the others.

New on CBS this fall is another family based comedy, Man with a Plan.

Man with a Plan follows Adam Burns (Matt LeBlanc) as he struggles to adapt to his new stay-at-home life when his wife decides to go back to work. He is left to take care of the house and the family’s three children.

Among the most well-known shows that started the family sitcom genre in the 1960s were The Addams Family and The Brady Bunch. Full House was among the shows that continued this trend from the late ’80s to the mid-’90s.

Then there was a gap where there was no real quality family show from the mid-’90s through almost the first decade of the 21st century. During this time, dramas and reality TV became much more popular and took the lead on the charts.

The very popular series Modern Family and The Middle are what brought these family sitcoms back to television with their premiers in 2009.

Modern Family follows Jay Pritchett, his kids, and their families in Los Angeles. The sitcom is a documentary style show.

The Middle is about the Heck family from Indiana. The show focuses on this working-class family as they express their day-to-day struggles.

These shows were followed by The Goldbergs in 2013 and Blackish in 2014.

The Goldbergs is based off the childhood of one of the producers, Adam F. Goldberg. Goldberg grew up in the ‘80s and the show expresses this time from a young boy’s eyes.

Blackish is all about an upper-middle class family, the Johnsons. This African American family has four children who, to their father’s disliking, often do not express what he believes to be their culture.

The question now is whether these family series are going to take back their top spot from the reality shows. Another option is that they could coexist, or reality shows could continue to thrive and shut down the comeback of family sitcoms.