Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) stars as matriarch Frankie, a not-no-successful car salesman at a local car dealership. Neil Flynn (Scrubs) plays her brutally honest and sarcastic husband Mike, who works as a night shift driver who delivers snack cakes. (Mike used to work at a quarry but lost the job when the plant closed [...]
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Patricia Heaton is a wife and mom again. Of course, much is changed on “The Middle,” her freshman ABC domestic comedy, after “Everybody Loves Raymond,” where for nine hit seasons she played a frazzled hausfrau opposite Ray Romano. “It’s not normally a great choice, to repeat yourself,” says Heaton, acknowledging her knee-jerk reluctance to go [...]
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Channel Surfing bloggers Malavika Jagannathan and Adam Reinhard talked about The Middle; Here are some of the highlights: Malavika: To be honest, family-centric sitcoms always made me a bit uncomfortable. As much as I loved “The Cosby Show” and, yes, even “Growing Pains,” I grew out of that phase pretty quickly. If I wanted to [...]
There’s a rookie TV show we’ve been watching that airs in the middle of the week, in the middle of other sitcoms. The Middle doesn’t get a lot of attention, but we’d like to change that, now that we’ve hit the middle of The Middle’s first season. So if you like to laugh, really, you [...]
Another list rankes “The Middle” – the show that most people are missing and the people who watch love — high on the Best of 2009 , this time from TV Squad: 7. The Middle. A lot of people will pick Modern Family over this, but I think The Middle is funnier and isn’t tired [...]
What seemed in early fall a rare outbreak of inspired television writing has in recent months become something rarer—not an epidemic, exactly, but a season impressively stocked with creations drenched in wit and enterprise, all unmistakably reflective of a drive toward formula busting. These things are, of course, always relative. In television these days, one [...]
The Middle was chosen as part of the Huffington Post second annual Alternative Ten Best list, featuring noteworthy shows that likely won’t land on many (if any) Top 10 line-ups but still deserve special recognition: The Middle (ABC) – Forgive me if I’m forgetting one, but I don’t think there has been a genuinely funny, [...]
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It’s more fun, of course, to pick apart the bad stuff on TV. There is always plenty to choose from, after all. But since one of my resolutions for 2010, and beyond, is to accentuate the positive, let me optimistically begin this final column of 2009 by highlighting the good news on the small screen [...]
TV Squad has a review of the Christmas episode, here are some of the hightlights: Just like The Big Bang Theory was a breakout hit waiting to happen, I thinkThe Middle is being overshadowed by Modern Family. Maybe a shake-up is just what it needs. Don’t get me wrong, MF is fully deserving of all the praise, just [...]
Indiana’s, the home state of The Middle, Daily Student has a review of The Middle, here are the highlights: The show was sharp and witty, but hidden behind the zingy one-liners was a little condescension. Take the family’s name, Heck, which sounds just a little too much like “hick,” or the fact that during the [...]
