Middle
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 laugh [...]
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 should check [...]
The Middle may be middling as a comedy, but the freshman sitcom about an atypical middle-American family got a resounding endorsement this past week from ABC executives: renewal for a second season in the fall.
For show-runners Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, the early pickup is validation of a gentle and genuinely sweet take on raising [...]
Patricia Heaton talks about how much fun she had on the show “The Middle”.
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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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Cleveland.com has an interview with Patricia Heaton, the star of “The Middle”. Here are some of the highlights:
If you’re wondering what she wants on Dec. 25, her wish list is short: “world peace and champagne.” And never mind the candy canes and Hershey kisses, said Heaton, 51, the mother of four sons. She wants [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Patricia Heaton was chosen as part of TV Squad eight wonderful stars shining in the TV pantheon for 2009:
8. Patricia Heaton. I wasn’t expecting to see Patricia Heaton being anything other than Deborah on Everybody Loves Raymond. Instead, as Francis Heck on The Middle, she’s a completely different person. That, my [...]
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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, down-to-earth, [...]
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