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We have a new admin - TaraLJC!  She’s been a Middlefan for as long as I have and actually I’m pretty sure she was a Javi fan before I was! (I know, blasphemy! j/k!)

Anyway, I found this clip on her journal which she might have posted later, but I decided to go ahead and put it up to get it out there before the ep tonight.

Anyway, for the clip just click here! (Clip by Brian Ashcraft)

Also io9 (which pimps “Middleman” a LOT!) has a clip as well as IGN!

And don’t forget tonight is the SORBO EP!

There are plenty of campaigns and petitions online, but here are a few other ways to help out:

Go to http://abcfamily.go.com/middleman and give them page views or better yet — comments!

Watch the vids, comment to the blogs, and (when it’s working again) post in the forum!

Watch the viewing parties - http://themiddleman.lycos.com

You can go alone and start them anytime - over the next few days just set them up and let the episodes run while you clean up or something. It gives them advertising dollars and numbers.

No Nielsen box? Well, now Nielsen lets you vote on shows:

http://www.heynielsen.com/view/the-middleman/

I don’t know how much it counts towards ratings, but It’s SOMETHING.

And on Tuesday 8/12/08, The Middlecast will be talking to Javi and perhaps more ways of saving the show will come up!

WE CAN SAVE THE MIDDLEMAN SO HE AND WENDY DON’T HAVE TO!

I know, I know - I suck!

It was a LONG week preceding Comic-Con and an even LONER one after it.

ANYWAY - how much I do or don’t suck is beside the point - TONIGHT IS  A NEW EP! And it’s by Sarah Watson who is awesome.

So, WATCH IT at 10/9c!

Sorry I’ve been so behind lately - it’s just been CRAZY insane preparing for Comic-Con!

First, check out the podcast thingy to the right of the marxwatch.com mainpage - we interviewed Andy Reaser, writer of last week’s Middleman episode!

Also, you BETTER watch tonight’s! It’s by my friend, Jordan Rosenberg, and it. is. AWESOME!

So, watch ABC Family at 10/9c for the best episode yet of “The Middleman!”

Off to do more work!

It’s Monday night and that means SHOW NIGHT!

For info on tonight’s show head on over to the episodes page on Middlefan and scroll down to today’s date!

For the trailer, click here!

And for a tiny bit of a spoilery preview, click here!

ART CRAWL!

This here’s the official-type press release from ABC Family on their Comic-Con activities!

ABC FAMILY HEADS TO COMIC-CON

WITH STARS, SHWAG AND SCI-FI FUN

Network to feature “The Middleman,” “Samurai Girl” and “Kyle XY”

Burbank, CA (June 30, 2008) – For the third consecutive year ABC Family will have a presence at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego to promote three projects, “The Middleman,” “Samurai Girl” and “Kyle XY.” From July 23rd – 27th, ABC Family will be in the thick of things at booth #3913 with premium give-aways, Q&A panel sessions with talent and producers, and autograph sessions after each panel.

Here is a run-down of ABC Family’s panel schedules:

Thursday, July 24th

2:00 – 3:00 PM The Middleman Q&A panel with star Matt Keeslar and show creator and executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach in room 5AB.

3:30 – 4:30 PM The Middleman autograph session in booth 3913.

Friday, July 25th

12:00 – 1:00 PM Samurai Girl Q&A panel with stars Jamie Chung, Brendan Fehr, Stacy Keibler, executive producers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, and co-executive producer Luke McMullen.

1:30 – 2:30 PM Samurai Girl autograph session in booth 3913.

Saturday, July 26th

12:30 – 1:30 PM Kyle XY Q&A panel with stars Matt Dallas, Jaimie Alexander and co-executive producer Julie Plec in room 5AB.

2:00 – 3:00 PM Kyle XY autograph session in booth 3913.

ABC Family will be giving away a series of “The Middleman” collector pins and “Samurai Girl” themed temporary tattoo sheets, as well as allowing visitors to the booth a chance to navigate features on ABCFamily.com for the whole duration of the convention.

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I, myself, will be at the ABC Family table on and off throughout the weekend!  If you’re at the con, stop by and say, “Hi!”

Tuesday nights have recently brought this odd convergence of minds at or around 9/8c  (sometimes the minds are lazy and forgather 15 or so minutes late). Those minds tend to discuss ABC Family’s “The Middleman” and go over the little extra bits people might have missed upon first viewing.  Feel free to join those minds live on TalkShoe as they discuss last night’s episode of The Middleman. Once the podcast is done it will appear in that little feed thingy on the right side of the MarxWatch main page.

Enjoy the melding of minds…. IF YOU CAN!

Tonight’s episode at 10/9c is written by Tracey Stern and directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It’s called “The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum” and is the fourth episode aired, but was the second produced. So those wondering why certain threads are finally being dealt with while other more recent threads are only just barely mentioned - that’s why.

So far, the remainder of the episodes are to air in production order.

I don’t have a trailer but here’s a nifty featurette.

And here’s a fun way to watch the episode. But keep in mind that it spoils the reference theme for tonight, so if you don’t wanna know what that is then check it out AFTER you watch to see if you caught the refs!

For the official ABC Family description of the episode, click “more” or keep reading!

“THE MANICOID TELEPORTATION CONUNDRUM”

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

“The Middleman and Wendy are called to look into the strange disappearance of a rich socialite during a fateful shopping trip. As their trail leads them through the world of plastic surgery addiction, they realize that they are dealing with a group of exiled aliens who are being hunted by an unknown entity. But who would hunt down a peaceful species of aliens whose only affliction is the appearance of too much facial work?

Meanwhile, Wendy is upset to find out that Ben has posted their break-up video online and tries to avoid Lacey who is channeling her inner therapist. ”

First up we have some episode information! The titles and writers for episodes 11 and 12 have been posted at both the episode info page and the spoiler page of MIDDLEFAN.

Also, it’s a bit late but I finally updated the “next episode” block on MIDDLEFAN. I thought I had already done it but… apparently not.

Thirdly, there will be a new section of MIDDLEFAN in the near future that will help you get MM n00bs invested in the show. When it’s ready, I’ll give it it’s own post - but keep an eye out for it. We want more viewers!

And lastly before we get to the articles, a few fun extras:

If you want the Javi-Casts to keep going, Send Javi your QUESTIONS!

Speaking of Javi-Cast - have you seen Javi-Cast 3 yet?

And for those of you not afraid of tiny spoilers, Here’s a fun way to watch tonight’s episode! (No plot spoilers, just pop-culture reference spoilers. It’s sort of a drinking game without the alcohol.)

REVIEWS:

“The Middleman” is good fun for the religious among us!

iF Magazine on episode 3, “The Sino-Mexican Revelation.”

NJ.com on “Sino-Mexican.”

INTERVIEWS:

The NY Post interviews Matt Keeslar and asks why you aren’t watching ABC Family’s “The Middleman.”

Fanbolt Talks to Matt Keeslar!

IGN Talks to Javi!

The Dead Bolt talks to Natalie Morales!

Media Blvd on a press call with Natalie Morales!

Pink Raygun’s take on the Natalie Morales press call (Pretty much the same as Media Blvd, but I love their site name too much not to post!)

Fan Bolt on Natalie Morales!

iF Magazine on Matt Keeslar!

And that’s it for now - remember, keep watching this space for more Middleinfo!

Are you a Netflix member? Miss an episode? Well, then you can stream “The Middleman” at no additional cost!

Just search for it or if you’re already logged in, click here!

Though, if you happen to be a nielsen family or know a nielsen family - please please please watch the show live wherever that box is! I will love you forever!

Go watch it now! Give the “MM” site page views and more importantly, find Nielsen families and make them watch the show live!

But for now, watching JAVI-CAST will do!

It’s MONDAY NIGHT! And that means MIDDLEMAN NIGHT!

Head on over to the ABC Family blog to watch LIVE!

Oh, and as a special bonus - you know those dancing bear vids going around?  I couldn’t help myself — I just HAD to jump on the bandwagon and make my own:

Time to come up with more questions for el Javidor!

Official description added.

First, the trailer for Monday’s ep!

Second, a bit of oddness:

TaraLJC found it searching youtube for more “The Middleman” videos. Not exactly sure what it’s doing up there, but looks to be a pretty funny extra from the next ep. lmao

Enjoy!

First off — WHY HAVEN’T MORE OF YOU WATCHED JAVI-CAST 2!?

And secondly — ever wonder what’d be like to sit in on a table read of your favorite show? Well, luckily for us the good people at ABC Family saw it fit to record some of those mysterious get togethers involving the crew of “The Middleman!”

SPOILER WARNING: This video contains a table reading of the FULL script for episode 3, “The Sino-Mexican Revelation!” STAY AWAY UNTIL TUESDAY… unless you don’t mind spoilers. If you’re no spoilerphobe, then WATCH as the cast reads the episode together for the first time! MARVEL as lines are stumbled over with poise and grace! And TREMBLE in fear at the force of Matt Keeslar’s hand against the table!

(Note — if the video doesn’t load, go here.)

No water bottles were harmed during the filming of this special feature.

Marvel as the creator and executive producer of ABC Family’s “The Middleman” answers YOUR questions ON CAMERA!

Okay, I’ve gotten REALLY behind on posting articles… so it’s time for a DUMP!

First off, INTERVIEWS:

Part one of my interrogation of Brit Morgan is up on ABC Family!

ifMagazine interviews Mary Pat Gleason, Ida on ABC Family’s “The Middleman!”

There was recently a phone conference Q&A with Matt Keeslar that lots of sites participated in, but I’m linking Pink Ray Gun’s write-up — mainly because I can’t get enough of their awesome name!

Of course, if you don’t want to read it you can just listen to it over at Shaun OMac Radio!

Natalie Morales is a VIDAGIRL!

Next we have REVIEWS:

ifMagazine reviews “The Middleman” episode 2 “The Accidental Occidental Conception” and LIKES it!

The New York Times gets all positive on “The Middleman!”

Pink Ray Gun (Still love that name!) is in lurrrve with “The Accidental Occidental Conception!”

Henry Jenkins pimps “The Middleman.” Come on, you HAVE to watch now! It’s Henry Frakkin’ Jenkins!

The Denver Post is digging ABC Family’s “The Middleman!”

Nerdgasmic wants you to watch more of “The Middleman!”

Zap2It on “The Accidental Occidental Conception!”

TVSquad loves up on “The Middleman!”

And FINALLY - CHARITY!

Like “The Middleman?” How about charity? Well now you can bid on a day with Jake “Noser” Smollett and Javier Grillo-Marxuach on the set of “The Middleman!” And the proceeds all go to “Artists for a New South Africa!” You only have until July 1st to bid, so HURRY!

As The Middleblog updates, so do we!

The main page has been changed to reflect the new ABC Family’s “The Middleman” timeslot.  Next week the episodes will air at 10/9 C –  set your DVRs accordingly!

Again - that’s TWO HOURS later than normal!

Hey, I didn’t make the change… I’m just reporting it.

The Spoilers page and Episodes page have been updated.  Though, mostly with writer/director/guest cast info. Oh, and gallery links. Which brings me to –

The Gallery page has been updated as well. Mostly (okay all) behind the scenes stuff from The Middleblog and mostly by Ralph King, photographer extraoridnaire.

Enjoy!