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admin on February 17th, 2010

The 21-year-old actress will be guest starring in a new The Middle episode titled, “The Break Up.”
In the episode, Frankie and Mike (Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn) are excited to discover that Axl (Charlie McDermott) has found the perfect girlfriend, Morgan (Vega), and that he’s in love. But just as they start to get used to [...]

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admin on February 14th, 2010

ABC has scheduled the return of the Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special to air the week before the Academy Awards and plans to give “The Middle” a “Modern Family” lead-in.
The Oprah special will air March 3. On Feb. 17 and Feb. 24, ABC will try out repeats of “The Middle” — which recently hit a season [...]

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admin on February 9th, 2010

Zap2it selected Axl as one of their favorite new faces of the TV season:
Charlie McDermott as Axl on “The Middle“ (Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC): Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn may be the big names on this show but it’s the kids who make this comedy a must-see series. And yes Brick is adorable [...]

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admin on February 4th, 2010

“The Middle” (8:30-9:00 p.m.)

Building on its lead-in at 8:30 p.m. (+13%), ABC’s “The Middle” (2.7/8) finished as the No. 1 regular program in its half-hour among Adults 18-49, beating the second half-hour of Fox’s “Human Target” premiere by 8% (2.5/7) and NBC’s “Mercy” by 69% (1.6/5).
“The Middle” achieved series-high numbers among Adults 18-49 and across [...]

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admin on February 4th, 2010

TV Squad has a review of last night’s The Middle; here are the highlights:
I kind of like the relationship developing between Bob and Mike. When Mike threw him out of the house a few weeks back, I was actually a bit taken aback. Sure, Bob’s a bit — okay, a lot awkward, but he has [...]

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admin on February 1st, 2010

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 [...]

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admin on January 22nd, 2010

HE MIDDLE star Eden Sher stops by Holly wood 411. Eden talks about playing an awk­ward child in a dysfunctional family and the rare chance to do a fight scene on a sitcom.

The Middle: Eden Sher

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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 21st, 2010

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 [...]

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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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