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Airdate: The Middle
New sitcom The Middle begins next Monday night on Nine, created by Eileen Heisler (Murphy Brown, How I Met Your Mother, Lipstick Jungle).
The show features Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond, Back to You) as Frankie Heck, a middle-class, Midwestern mother of three, married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn).
Mother of three, Frankie has a job selling cars at the town’s only surviving car dealership while her husband is a manager at the local quarry. In between juggling shifts and picking up fast food dinners eaten in front of the TV, Frankie …
Hank gets yanked
Kelsey Grammer has just lost another comedy series with ABC cancelling Hank, in which he plays a Wall Street executive who loses his job and reconnects with his small-town family.
The show will stop production after wrapping up at episode 10.
Just five episodes have aired in the US where it aired as the only traditional sitcom amid single-camera series.
But neither critics nor audiences warmed to the show.
In Australia it is one of Nine’s acquisitions, which might now have to re-think whether to shift the show to the summer season (and it may …
Bumped: Back to You
The Comedy Channel has made an alteration to its timeslot for Kelsey’s Grammer and Patricia Heaton’s Back to You.
Originally scheduled for Monday’s at 7.30pm it will now screen Thursday’s at 7.30pm from February 5 in double episodes.
Still a fun show that should never have bitten the bullet, but that’s another story…
Back to You stars sitcom veterans Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier) and Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) as co-news anchors who reunite at a Pittsburgh television station after having worked together in the ’90s. Chuck Darling (Grammer) is a womanizer who has …
Back to Kelsey Grammer
Blame the financial meltdown for this pitch? Kelsey Grammer is taking another shot at a network comedy in which he stars as as a corporate tycoon who reconnects with his family after being downsized out of his powerful job.
ABC has given a pilot commitment to a half-hour, multicam comedy from Everybody Loves Raymond writer Tucker Cawley.
Last year Back to You failed to fire on the FOX Network, which was largely cited as th4e wrong home for the vehicle. Grammer also suffered a minor heart attack in 2008.
This new project comes just …