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"Sue Sue in the City" was a planned spinoff of "The Middle" TV series. The spinoff would have followed Sue Heck as she navigates young adulthood in Chicago. The pilot for "Sue Sue in the City" was shot but ultimately not picked up by ABC or any other network.

Sue Sue in the City was a planned spinoff of the ABC sitcom, The Middle. The Middle is a highly underrated TV series that ran for nine seasons between 2009 and 2018 and centers on the Heck family: mother Frances "Frankie" (Patricia Heaton), eldest son Axl (Charlie McDermott), youngest son Brick (Atticus Shaffer), middle daughter Sue (Eden Sher), and father Mike Jr. played by the underrated actor Neil Flynn appearing post-Scrubs. Set in the fictional town of Orson, Indiana, the Hecks are a lower middle class family facing the daily struggles that come with work, school, and relationships.

Sue is by far the...

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ABC's spinoff of The Middle is starting to take shape. 

According to TV Line, Finesse Mitchell is the latest series regular to board the series which will be titled Sue Sue in the City. 

The Saturday Night Live veteran will take on the role of Hudson, a bartender who works at the same hotel as Sue. 

As previously reported, the series follows Sue Heck (Eden Sher) as she leaves her hometown behind in favor of a career as well as to embrace adulthood.

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It was recently revealed that Sue's Bff, Brad (Brock Ciarlelli) would be following her to the city, and has also been added as a series regular. 

Per Deadline, Kimberly Crossman will also be part of the cast. She will play Remi, the unlucky in love chef at the hotel.

It's still unclear at this stage whether Beau Wirick will be part of the cast.

The Middle spinoff will no longer be called “The Middle spinoff.” The ABC comedy has been officially titled Sue Sue In the City. In addition, Eden Sher’s Sue Heck will be joined by Brock Ciarlelli, who appeared as her Bff Brad Bottig in all nine seasons of The Middle, in the offshoot as a series regular.

The title seems like a play on Sex and the City, but it is a nod to Sue’s full name: Sue Sue Heck. Written by Heisler and Heline, the half-hour single-camera comedy follows the twentysomething adventures of eternal optimist Sue as she leaves the small town of Orson to navigate the ups and downs of a career and young adulthood in the big city of Chicago.

Ciarlelli played Sue’s boyfriend in the first season of The Middle. After they broke up, he remained on the show and in Season 7, he came...

The Sue-centric spinoff of ABC’s “The Middle” is heading toward the pilot stage, according to star Eden Sher.

A script from “The Middle” co-creators Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline is in the works, and the network is preparing to shoot a pilot, Sher said in an interview with TVLine at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday.

As TheWrap reported in May, ABC was in development on a Sher-led spinoff shortly after the single-camera comedy wrapped its nine-season run, though at the time no deals were in place. ABC declined to comment on the current status of the spinoff.

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The series finale showed a flash-forward revealing that Sue Heck (Sher) would eventually be married to next-door neighbor Sean Donahue (Beau Wirick), but Sher told TVLine that it’s unlikely she’ll be married in the spinoff.

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Emmy voters have one last chance to right a wrong and finally nominate Eden Sher for her role as the eternally optimistic Sue Heck on the ABC comedy “The Middle.” This slice-of-lice charmer ended its run this spring after nine seasons. Over the course of its first eight seasons, “The Middle” was woefully left on the outside of the Emmy Awards.

Year after year, “The Middle” was overshadowed by another laffer on the alphabet network, “Modern Family.” While that mockumentary about a upwardly mobile California clan raked in Emmys, “The Middle,” which is centered on a working class Indiana family, was overlooked by TV academy members.

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The critics have done their bit, naming Sher as Best Comedy Supporting Actress at the Critics Choice Awards in 2013, having nominated her in both 2011 and 2012. She was recognized by the Broadcast Television Journalists Assn. again in...

ABC is eyeing a spinoff of “The Middle” from creators Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, TheWrap has learned.

The potential series would revolve around Sue Heck, the character played by Eden Sher, though no deals are in place. No further details were immediately available, and both ABC and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment.

The news comes just a week after “The Middle” wrapped its nine-season run on the network, with a series finale showing Heck getting married to next-door neighbor Sean Donahue, played by Beau Wirick.

First premiering in 2009, “The Middle” starred Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn as a middle-class couple raising their three kids in the fictional town of Orson, Indiana. Charlie McDermott and Atticus Shaffer also starred.

The single-camera comedy was a reliable performer for the network, which recently lost its most-watched show,...

“It’s the end of an era,” declares a teary-eyed Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton) near the end of the series finale of ABC sitcom “The Middle.” Indeed, the last episode of the long-running show, which aired on May 22, marks the departure of one of the network’s most consistently-excellent, flagship family comedies from the airwaves. Debuting in the same season as the network’s breakout, critical-darling “Modern Family,” “The Middle” always seemed overshadowed by its sitcom sibling in the clamor for awards recognition. With its pitch-perfect and satisfying final episode, though, “The Middle” should finally receive its due as a bona fide Emmy contender.

For nine seasons, “The Middle” chronicled the hilarious and always relatable foibles of the working-class Heck family, who live in the fictional town of Orson, Indiana. Sitcom pros Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) and Neil Flynn (“Scrubs”) helmed the cast as Frankie and Mike, the overworked and...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains details about the series finale of The Middle.

The time has come for another beloved TV family to depart the airwaves and become a benchmark in pop culture history. Tonight, we said goodbye to the quirky and heartwarming antics of the Hecks from The Middle. Created by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, the nine seasons of the popular ABC family sitcom came to an end with a two-part finale appropriately titled “A Heck of a Ride.”

The big finale starts in the dark — yes the dark. Axl (Charlie McDermott) enters Frankie (Patricia Heaton) and Mike’s (Neil Flynn) room as they are asleep and makes the announcement that he has decided to take the job in Denver. After his announcement, there is a silence between the parents until Frankie starts to comedically sob and finds comfort in the cookies she keeps bedside — cookies that Mike also partakes in.

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