admin on December 19th, 2009

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 up [...]

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admin on December 16th, 2009

No love for Patricia Heaton in “The Middle,” who’s proving every week that she’s gotten even better since “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Of course, such a choice would have been pretty conventional, so we can’t ding the HFPA for not playing it safe.
Maybe next year?
Source: The Wrap

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admin on December 11th, 2009

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ABC get a B+ from The TV Addict:
The Good: ABC took a fairly substantial leap of faith with their brand-new Wednesday night comedy block, and as luck would have it, the leap paid off. What could have been an epic disaster of HANK-esque proportions single-handedly transformed ABC’s once troubled Wednesday night into a [...]

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Great news – full season for The Middle!
ABC has locked in its scripted commitments for the 2009-10 season.
The news, which was confirmed to the site exclusively by network and studio sources, includes some adjustments to its previously indicated episode orders.

The rest of its lineup – including “Castle,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family,” “Cougar Town,” [...]

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admin on December 6th, 2009

Ray Romano who used to act with Patricia Heaton on “Everybody Loves Raymond” has a new show. LA Times has the story behind it:
Those who subscribe to the familiar adage “Dying is easy, comedy is hard” have not been hanging around lately with Ray Romano. The star and inspiration behind the hit family comedy “Everybody [...]

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admin on November 19th, 2009

Repeat nominees are the rule of thumb at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the eligibility period is the calendar year—rather than the TV season, as is the case with the Emmys. So, new shows are traditionally given short shrift, as they’ve had only a few months of airtime, compared with the whole 12 of [...]

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admin on November 18th, 2009

‘Modern Family‘ is not the only show with great guest stars: after leading ‘lipstick jungle‘, Brooke Shields is making her way there in early 2010 via a guest appearance on ABC’s The Middle.
Shields is playing a neighbor-nemesis of Patricia Heaton’s harried middle-class mom in an episode slated to air in January. “She’s a single mother [...]

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admin on November 16th, 2009

Cougar Town, Modern Family and The Middle have been picked up for full seasons, reps for the ABC series confirm to TVGuide.com.
The news of ABC ordering more episodes of the Wednesday night comedy block — sans Hank — comes a day after CBS announced the pick ups of The Good Wife and NCIS: Los Angeles.
The [...]

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The second Wednesday night of the official TV season saw the debut of two more ABC comedies — the Kelsey Grammer-led Hank at 8 p.m. and the Patricia Heaton-starring The Middle at 8:30 p.m. And you know what? Both won their time slots, besting shows such as NBC’s Mercy, CBS comedies The New Adventures of [...]

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