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admin on January 21st, 2010

ABC’s 8-9pm Repeat Comedies Build Adult 18-49 Audience Against “Idol,” As a Repeat “The Middle” Beats NBC’s Original “Mercy” at 8:30pm by 21%.
ABC Repeat Comedies (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
Opposite “American Idol” from 8:00-9:00 p.m., repeats of “Modern Family” and “The Middle” gained Adult 18-49 audience (+6%) for ABC in the hour. In fact ABC was the [...]

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admin on January 19th, 2010

ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson said he was renewing ABC’s freshman comedies Modern Family, The Middle and Cougar Town so all three will get a second season.
Source: TV by the Numbers

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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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admin on December 5th, 2009

We love The Middle and Brick, and so does Clique Clack on their review of the latest “The Middle” episode:
But don’t imagine that Brick is any less my far-and-away favorite. His looking in the mirror act? Are you kidding me? Amazing! “It usually copies me, but sometimes … it doesn’t.” And he keeps at it, [...]

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admin on November 30th, 2009

The Middle Season 1, Episode 9 – Siblings.
Frankie observes what she thinks are the perfect siblings, and it becomes her mission in life to make her kids stop fighting with one another and interact as a loving family. Meanwhile, Mike contemplates firing Aunt Edie after she makes a costly mistake at the quarry.

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admin on November 23rd, 2009

Atticus Shaffer who plays Brick on The Middle was on a commercial for AIG two years ago. Here it is:

[Source: TV Squad]

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admin on November 23rd, 2009

Allison Waldman, from TV Squad, is Thankful for “The Middle”, and so are we:
ABC’s The Middle
Yes, I’m surprised to be including this in my list, but I’ve come to look forward to this little Patricia Heaton sitcom. It doesn’t have the hype of other shows, but there’s something very loving and endearing about this dysfunctional, [...]

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admin on November 20th, 2009

The cancellation of the short-lived Kelsey Grammer sitcom “Hank” turned out to be a double win for ABC last night.
A rerun of “Modern Family” performed much better than “Hank’s” final episode in the Wednesday 8 p.m. slot, and the original “The Middle” that followed soared compared to its most recent outing without the dumpy [...]

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