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admin on March 10th, 2010

“The Middle” should ring true for anyone who has kids or had parents, or ever dreamed of getting an uninterrupted moment to oneself. And it resonates with much of the country in an economic pinch that seems standard issue for the Hecks.
“But the show is not so much about the bad economy,” says Heaton. “It’s [...]

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admin on February 22nd, 2010

Sue Heck is an awkward 13-year-old girl with braces on ABC’s “The Middle.”
Eden Sher is the 18-year-old actress who plays her. She put on fake braces and dressed real young to help land the role on the show.
“I don’t know what came over me, but I just decided to wear fake braces to the audition,” [...]

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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 January 22nd, 2010

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 [...]

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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 20th, 2010

Patricia Heaton talks about how much fun she had on the show “The Middle”.

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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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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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admin on December 8th, 2009

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 pilot [...]

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