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Any chance that The Middleman will return?

looking forward to seeing Cassie Scerbo in Perfect 10 as well!

And Kyle XY is cancelled. Can't believe that!!

With a DVD release reportedly coming soon, has there been any talk as to whether The Middleman is coming back? I never heard whether it was cancelled or not.(Then again ABC Family gets so little press the show could be on now and we'd never know).

So--where's the order for a second season of THE MIDDLEMAN? Is ABC Family afraid of cultivating a genuinely well-made cult hit for a change?

Mike Tiefenbacher wrote:

So--where's the order for a second season of THE MIDDLEMAN? Is ABC Family afraid of cultivating a genuinely well-made cult hit for a change?

Given the way ABC Family tried to sell it as a low-brow show, they clearly never had a clue what they had with The Middleman.

There is a huge reserve of potential viewers out there that were put off by the ridiculous posters.

Well, that, and the female lead in Secret Life is much hotter than the one in Middleman...at least according to the folks at Disney, I reckon. Why else would they choose a low-rent, whiny soap opera over a well-made, completely-silly-yet-enjoyable satire? Oh, yeah...the network execs at ABC/Disney are stupid. How could I have forgotten?

Thorny wrote:

Well, that, and the female lead in Secret Life is much hotter than the one in Middleman...at least according to the folks at Disney, I reckon. Why else would they choose a low-rent, whiny soap opera over a well-made, completely-silly-yet-enjoyable satire? Oh, yeah...the network execs at ABC/Disney are stupid. How could I have forgotten?

I don't begrudge ABC Family for pushing Secret Life. After all, it beats Gossip Girl and gives me endless amusement when i point it out to people who buy PR hype by the gross. ;)

I do blame them for not realizing what they had with Middleman and essentially sabotaging it.

It does seem that ABC Family is trying to compete with CW, MTV & The N for that certain demo that spends all of its income on shiny things.

johnd wrote:

It does seem that ABC Family is trying to compete with CW, MTV & The N for that certain demo that spends all of its income on shiny things.

That's CW for you: Big Network Budget, niche cable size target audience. And it misses it too. ;)

Cassie Scerbo is gorgeous cant wait to watch her every week in "Perfect 10" I think they named it after her!!!

I want to thank the worthess D/A RF converter I got because it is pure aggravation and it also gave me more reason to just shut off the fricking TV because ALL the network TV shows are pure drivel and a total waste of my time.

No wonder the dinkdork that plays the totally unbelievable supercop in the TV show"24" dopes and drinks and gets tossed in jail. He want nuts from the utter crappy scripts he had to do all the time.

So I have rediscovered a TON of great old VHS movies. They play perfectly. Bulletproof format.

Bulletproof? You must have better-made tapes than me, cause most of my old VHS disintegrated pretty fine when I aimed my Winchester rifle at them while target shooting.

Chris Toggins wrote:

Bulletproof? You must have better-made tapes than me, cause most of my old VHS disintegrated pretty fine when I aimed my Winchester rifle at them while target shooting.

Hey Chris, I've got Scotch 111 audiotape that goes back to the 50s that still plays. Pretty good for any old Scotch, including the kind folks drink.

The tape companies got in trouble when they starting fiddling around with different coatings in the mid 60s, both video and audio tapes.

The only times I have problems are with the EP videos. They tear up on the screen.

And I hope you are not are trying to be funny about bulletproof and not some literal bugger lameass wirehead. If so, please do us all a favor the turn that gun on yourself, I suspect you are. So for you I have a song.

I don't believe in frettin and fightin.
Why mess around with strife.
Sounds corny and seedy.
But give me the simple life.

Tak

Chill, dude, I was just being a smart ass. No wonder Thorny left. Everybody on this site is so goddam serious.