English Entertainment
Romedy now presents The Middle – a whacky family series filled with laughter and craziness
MUMBAI: If everything were prim, proper and ideal, life would be no fun. Nothing to add spice, nothing to add laughs, nothing to make life more interesting. Fortunately, one doesn’t need to look far. Romedy now – India’s exclusive destination for love and laughter presents yet another sidesplitting series to its audience The Middle.
This series is an entertaining family comedy series starring Neil Flynn and Patricia Heaton as ‘The Hecks’. Tune in to watch the family as they face the day-to-day struggles of home life, work and raising children at 8:30pm every Monday to Friday only on Romedy now.
Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton) is a middle-class wife and mother of three – Brick, Sue and Axl living in the middle of suburban Orson, Indiana with her husband Mike Heck (Neil Flynn). She’s quickly approaching middle age and is committed to keeping her highly dysfunctional family in sync. Meanwhile, her overworked and aloof husband continues to drown under the responsibility of his job as a manager at a local quarry and his role as father.
All three children are severe under-achievers and socially awkward in their own respective ways. Though, it is Brick, Sue and Axl’s endearing charm and canny personalities that adds an undoubtable sense of quirkiness to the series.
This rollicking family comedy has a no-nonsense approach to social class, money and adolescence. The Middle features witty dialect and makes for a sophisticated, realistic imitation of the average, modern-day family. A healthy sense of madness and craziness is what knits a jovial family together. It keeps one on their toes and abuzz. Such madness comes as a blessing. The Middle is in complete sync with the channels’ core positioning giving viewers a variety of choice within the genres of love and laughter.
The entire series oozes irresistible warmth and the casts’ comedic timing is impeccable. Created by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, The Middle is the ultimate series, perfect for a night in with the whole family.
Tune into to The Middle every Monday – Friday at 8:30pm only on Romedy now!
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
