Lots of big news came in during the long weekend, so let's skip the little guys and the impending Up All Night doom for now.

It looks like November 3 will be the night that comedy nerds everywhere explode with excitement.

Get ready for a glitzy fall filled with plenty of roadkill and sass.

Way to give Aaron Sorkin an even bigger ego, everybody.

Wow, NBC... way to be generous.

A movie that no one wants isn't happening. Yay, I guess.

Can we just meet the dang mother already?

Looks like Sam Evans' homeless family is going to be a-okay.

And then there were 16...

When I first heard about The Middle, my first thought was, Hey, that sounds kind of like Malcolm in the Middle! That's interesting." Then I saw it, and discovered that it was, in fact, very interesting, because the show -- a single-camera sitcom about a hard-working couple raising three wacky children who get into zany mix-ups while trying to keep the family running and make ends meet -- feels exactly like Malcolm in the Middle. If you haven't seen it yet, you might say, "Well, that's a tenuous connection -- a lot of shows are about that. And besides, there were four kids on Malcolm." Of course, if you have seen it, then you know exactly what I'm talking about, and would even go so far as to agree with me that the oldest son on Malcolm doesn't count because he was at military school a lot of the time.