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Malcolm in the Middle (commonly shortened to Malcolm) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 sitcom created by Linwood Boomer
Linwood Boomer

Linwood Boomer is a Canadian television producer, writer, actor. He is well known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie , and for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
 for the Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
. The series was first broadcast
Premiere

A premiere is generally "a first performance." This can refer to dramas, films, television programs, and so on. Premieres for theatrical, musical and other cultural presentations can become extravagant affairs, attracting large numbers of socialites and much Mass media attention....
 on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons. The series received critical acclaim and won seven Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
s, one Grammy and was nominated for seven Golden Globes.

show starred Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz

Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
 as Malcolm, the third-born of four, then five later in the series (and possibly six, in the last episode), sons of Lois (Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek

Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
) and Hal (Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston

Bryan Lee Cranston is an United States actor, voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his roles as Characters in Malcolm in the Middle#Hal in the Fox Network situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won an Emmy Award....
).






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Quotations


Spangler:

Once again I waltz with Lady Victory. And until you focus, Francis, she is never going to be your dance partner.

Reese and/or Malcolm:

Now, we're even.






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Malcolm in the Middle (commonly shortened to Malcolm) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 sitcom created by Linwood Boomer
Linwood Boomer

Linwood Boomer is a Canadian television producer, writer, actor. He is well known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie , and for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
 for the Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
. The series was first broadcast
Premiere

A premiere is generally "a first performance." This can refer to dramas, films, television programs, and so on. Premieres for theatrical, musical and other cultural presentations can become extravagant affairs, attracting large numbers of socialites and much Mass media attention....
 on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons. The series received critical acclaim and won seven Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
s, one Grammy and was nominated for seven Golden Globes.

Premise

The show starred Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz

Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
 as Malcolm, the third-born of four, then five later in the series (and possibly six, in the last episode), sons of Lois (Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek

Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
) and Hal (Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston

Bryan Lee Cranston is an United States actor, voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his roles as Characters in Malcolm in the Middle#Hal in the Fox Network situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won an Emmy Award....
). The oldest, Francis (Christopher Masterson
Christopher Masterson

Christopher Kennedy Masterson is an American actor, best known for his role as eldest brother Francis in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
), was shipped off to military school
Military academy

A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the Army, the Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard or provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned....
, leaving three brothers: Reese (Justin Berfield
Justin Berfield

Justin Tyler Berfield is a Jewish-American actor, writer and Film producer. He is best known for his portrayal of the second-oldest brother Reese Wilkerson in the Fox Network television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
), Malcolm (Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz

Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
), Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan
Erik Per Sullivan

Erik Per Sullivan is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Dewey Wilkerson, the younger brother to middle child Malcolm, on the Fox Broadcasting Company series, Malcolm in the Middle....
) and starting in season four Jamie (James and Lukas Rodriguez in the later seasons) living at home, Malcolm being the middle child still at home (hence the show's title). The show's early seasons centered on Malcolm and the rigors of being an adolescent and enduring an eccentric, although eerily normal, life. Later seasons gradually explored the other members of the family and their friends in more depth.

The series was different from many others in that Malcolm broke the fourth wall
Fourth wall

The fourth wall is an element of fiction. Originally, the term referred to the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the Play ....
 and talked directly to the viewer; it was shot using a single camera
Single-camera setup

The single-camera setup is a method of shooting films and television programs. A single camera?either film or video?is employed on the set and shots are often taken out of order....
; and it used neither a laugh track
Laugh track

A laugh track, laughter soundtrack, laughter track, LFN , canned laughter or a laughing audience is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television comedy shows and sitcoms....
 nor a live studio audience
Audience

An audience is a group of person who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature , theatre, music or academics in any Media ....
, just sound effects. Emulating the style of hour-long dramas, this half-hour show was shot on film instead of video. Another unique aspect is that the cold open
Cold open

A cold open in a television program or Film is the technique of in medias res at the beginning or opening of the show, before the title sequence or opening credits are shown....
 of every episode is unrelated to the main story. Exceptions were episodes which were the conclusions of "two-parters"; these episodes opened with a summary of part one and Bryan Cranston (Hal) saying "Previously on Malcolm in Middle" in a humorous manner.

The Family Name


The last name of the family has been revealed only once in the show, in the pilot episode, where Francis wears the name tag "Wilkerson" on his school uniform (it can be seen best in the scene where he is talking with his family on the phone). Also, though unaired, it appears in a joke from the original pilot script. In that script, Malcolm was walking to school when a neighborhood kid came running up shouting, "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm. I was talking to my parents last night - I was listening to them talk, and what's your last name?" "Wilkerson, why?" Malcolm replied. "Oh. Who are the Pariahs?" said the other kid. The joke was eventually cut. A special feature on the series 1 DVD stated also that their surname was Wilkerson. A trailer on the UK channel Sky One in Early 2006 advised you to spend time with "The Simpsons" and "The Wilkersons", advertising Sunday night new episodes of both series. Another trailer was released to advertise the last episodes, of 24 and Malcolm in the Middle, it claimed Say Goodbye to the Wilkersons. However, on Bryan Cranston's official website, Mr. Cranston says the crew regularly joked amongst themselves that their last name is actually Nolastname. During the series finale, when Malcolm is being introduced for his graduation speech, his last name is not heard due to a squeak of the microphone. Just before Malcolm gives his graduation speech, Francis drops his employee ID on the ground and it clearly shows his name as "Francis Nolastname", this may be a joke or Francis is too embarrassed of his family.

Characters


  • Malcolm, played by Frankie Muniz
    Frankie Muniz

    Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
     is the smartest member of the family. Malcolm is also the middle child and the one who is bullied the most. He usually goes against the family's plan and makes everything worse. His best friend is Stevie and he remained so for the remainder of the series. In the series finale, Malcolm got accepted to Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
    , but has to study the material he didn't want to study, politics. He is often referred to as a Kreylboyne, which in the show is a derogatory term for a nerd
    Nerd

    Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests rather than engaging in more Social relation or popular activities....
    .
  • Lois, played by Jane Kaczmarek
    Jane Kaczmarek

    Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
  • Reese, played by Justin Berfield
    Justin Berfield

    Justin Tyler Berfield is a Jewish-American actor, writer and Film producer. He is best known for his portrayal of the second-oldest brother Reese Wilkerson in the Fox Network television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
  • Hal, played by Bryan Cranston
    Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Lee Cranston is an United States actor, voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his roles as Characters in Malcolm in the Middle#Hal in the Fox Network situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won an Emmy Award....
  • Dewey, played by Erik Per Sullivan
    Erik Per Sullivan

    Erik Per Sullivan is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Dewey Wilkerson, the younger brother to middle child Malcolm, on the Fox Broadcasting Company series, Malcolm in the Middle....
  • Francis, played by Christopher Masterson
    Christopher Masterson

    Christopher Kennedy Masterson is an American actor, best known for his role as eldest brother Francis in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
  • Jamie, played by James and Lukas Rodriguez


Episodes

SeasonEp #First AirdateLast Airdate
Season 1
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 16 January 9, 2000 May 21, 2000
Season 2
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 25 November 5, 2000 May 20, 2001
Season 3
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 22 November 11, 2001 May 12, 2002
Season 4
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 22 November 3, 2002 May 18, 2003
Season 5
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 22 November 2, 2003 May 23, 2004
Season 6
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 22 November 7, 2004 May 15, 2005
Season 7
List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes

The following is an episode list for the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 in television to 2006 in television....
 22 September 30, 2005 May 14, 2006


Production


Opening titles

The opening titles feature short clips from cult films or television shows, edited together with clips from the early seasons of the TV series. These include, in order of appearance:

  • Three women fighting a giant turtle: From One Million Years BC (1966)
  • Grinning anime boy in rain: Shiogami from anime Nazca
    Nazca (anime)

    is an anime TV series. It is about a group of people who are reincarnations of ancient Incan warriors who have returned to re-enact a civil war that resulted in the fall of the Incan empire....
  • The monster rising out of the ocean is the Kraken
    Kraken

    Kraken are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the beasts have made them common ocean-dwelling monsters in various fictional works ....
    : From Clash of the Titans
    Clash of the Titans

    For the metal concert tour by the same name, see Clash of the Titans Clash of the Titans is a 1981 in film fantasy and mythology film based on the myth of Perseus....
     (1981)
  • Woman being held above a nest of hungry pterodactyl: From One Million Years BC (1966)
  • Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon

    Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian Period , living between 280?265 million years ago. It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards....
         -like lizard crawling on rocks: From Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1964)
  • Anime guy skateboarding: From the anime
    Anime

    is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
     Nazca
    Nazca (anime)

    is an anime TV series. It is about a group of people who are reincarnations of ancient Incan warriors who have returned to re-enact a civil war that resulted in the fall of the Incan empire....
  • Mud-monster grabbing a woman as she kisses a man: From Creature from the Haunted Sea
    Creature from the Haunted Sea

    Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 in film comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a parody film of spy film, gangster film and monster movies, concerning a secret agent, XK150 , who goes under the code name "Sparks Moran" in order to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Renzo Capetto , who is t...
     (1961)
  • Man ski-jumping
    Ski jumping

    Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp , attempting to go as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style....
     while ignited in flames:
  • Wrestling match: Canadian
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     Bret Hart
    Bret Hart

    Bret Sergeant Hart is a retired Canada Professional wrestling, amateur wrestling and actor, best known for his personna, "The Hitman." A son of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart, he was born into the Hart wrestling family....
     wrestling Canadian Chris Benoit
    Chris Benoit

    Christopher Michael Benoit was a Canada professional wrestling who, in 2007 received extensive media coverage as a result of being the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide in which he killed his wife and child, then himself, over the span of a weekend....
     (locking him in his finishing move, The Sharpshooter), during the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
    WCW World Heavyweight Championship

    The World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling World Heavyweight Championship in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Entertainment....
     Match at WCW Mayhem PPV
    Pay-per-view

    Pay-per-view is the system by which a television audience can purchase events to view on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes....
     in Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    , Ontario
    Ontario

    Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    .
  • Robot head being assembled: From the BBC series Out of the Unknown
    Out of the Unknown

    Out of the Unknown is a Great Britain television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Two in four series between 1965 and 1971....
     episode Liar!
    Liar!

    "Liar!" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot and The Complete Robot ....
     (1969)
  • Man attacking giant brain with an axe: From The Brain from Planet Arous
    The Brain from Planet Arous

    The Brain from Planet Arous is a 1957 science-fiction film concerning the idea of possession. It was shown as a double-feature with Monster from Green Hell from 1958 onwards....
     (1957)
  • Boxer knocking out
    Knockout

    A knockout is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving strike ....
     referee: Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    n Pedro Cardenas fighting Canadian Willie DeWitt
    Willie DeWitt

    Willie DeWitt was a Canadian boxing managed by Ben Tamney. DeWitt fought for Canada and won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics....
     but accidentally KOd referee Bert Lowes instead, during the 1982 North American Championships in Las Vegas.


Setting

The setting of the show has never been revealed, though their street address – 12334 Maple Blvd. Millbrook – was identified in episode 81 ("Reese's Party"). The house which is used for external shots is privately owned, and is situated in the Studio City
Studio City, Los Angeles, California

Studio City is a four-square-mile district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
 district of Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, at 12334 Cantura Street. Filming also took place at 20th Century Fox Studio
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 - 10201-Pico Boulevard in the Century City district of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
; at Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School

Walter Reed Middle School is located in Studio City, California in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its original name was North Hollywood Junior High School, and was later renamed in honor of U.S....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 and in Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The California Department of Finance estimated the city population as of January 1, 2008 at 177,045....
. There are several instances where California license plates are visible, including the family vehicle in "(Traffic Jam)". In "Stock Car Races", when Hal and the boys are entering a race track, the billboard behind the entrance displays the place as Irwindale Speedway
Irwindale Speedway

Toyota Speedway at Irwindale is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks....
, a real race track
Race track

A race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or sportsperson. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses....
 in Southern California. In seasons six and seven, however, the license plates on the cars are from Oklahoma ("Hal's Christmas Gift" and "Malcolm Defends Reese"). The last episode in the first season ("Waterpark") was filmed at a waterpark called "Wild Rivers" located in Irvine, California, but in the episode the waterpark was called "Wavetown USA". In the episode "Monkey" when Reese gets an honor from the police, the hat he is seen wearing has the letters MPD on it, suggesting the name of the city begins with the letter M. and in episode 107 Reese Joins the Army (2)Hal says that he is from the Millbrook bomb squad when he is trying to hide a briefcase and his identity. The baseball and softball episodes were filmed in a city park in the Sherman Oaks
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California

Sherman Oaks is an district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. In contrast to much of the Valley, the area is relatively urban area, with commercial skyscrapers along Ventura Boulevard as well as scattered throughout....
 district of Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
.

Music

The show's theme song
Theme music

The phrase theme music usually refers to that of a radio programming, television program, or movie. It is a Musical composition that is often written specifically for that show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits....
, "Boss of Me
Boss of Me

"Boss of Me" is a song and EP released by the band They Might Be Giants. The song was written as the Theme music for the television show Malcolm in the Middle....
", was written and recorded by the alternative rock group They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
. The song won the "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" award at the 2002 Grammy Awards. The band also performed nearly all of the incidental music
Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a Play , television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack."...
 for the show in its first two seasons.

Mood setting music is sprinkled throughout the series, in replacement of the laugh track, in a way that resembles feature film more than other TV sitcoms. Some examples of this highly varied music include ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
, Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx are a critically acclaimed United Kingdom House music duo, comprising Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, that rose to popularity in the late 1990s....
, Sum 41
Sum 41

Sum 41 is a Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble from Ajax, Ontario. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Cone McCaslin , and Steve Jocz ....
, Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
, Lords Of Acid
Lords of Acid

Lords of Acid is a Belgium acid house band from the 1990s that started as a spinoff of Praga Khan with the controversial New Beat single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988....
, The Getaway People
The Getaway People

The Getaway People is a Norway musical group. A modified version of their song "Six Pacs" from the album Turnpike Diaries was used as the theme song for the TV-series Young Americans ....
, En Vogue
En Vogue

En Vogue is a Grammy nominated United States female Contemporary R&B vocal quartet assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy....
, Phil Collins
Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
, Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot was an United States Heavy metal music band whose 1983 US Festival appearance helped to solidify metal's image. They are best known for their hit singles "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health ." They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the name Mach 1....
, Queen
Queen (band)

Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
, Titán
Titan

Titan most often refers to:*Titan , a class of deities who preceded the Olympians in Greek mythology*Titan , the largest satellite of the planet Saturn...
 and Citizen King
Citizen King

Citizen King was a music group from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose style was a mix of Hip hop music, Soul music and punk music. They are best known for their top 40 hit "Better Days ", which peaked at #10 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart....
 whose song "Better Days" is played at the end of both the pilot episode and the series finale. The Southern California pop-punk band Lit have many of their songs featured in several episodes. Lit songs that were never released as singles were also used.

A soundtrack, Music from Malcolm in the Middle
Music from Malcolm in the Middle

Music from Malcolm in the Middle is the soundtrack to the television series, Malcolm in the Middle released on November 21, 2000....
, was released on November 21, 2000.

Main crew

  • Linwood Boomer
    Linwood Boomer

    Linwood Boomer is a Canadian television producer, writer, actor. He is well known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie , and for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
     - Creator, Executive Producer (seasons 1-6), Creative Consultant (season 7)
  • Todd Holland
    Todd Holland

    Todd Holland is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award - winning United States Television director and film director and Television producer. He grew up in Meadville, PA, and was an honor student, graduating from ....
     - Co-Executive Producer (season 1, subsequent episodes he directs)
  • David Richardson
    David Richardson

    David John Richardson in Johannesburg played 42 Test cricket and 122 One Day Internationals for South Africa cricket team. He also represented Eastern Province in the SuperSport Series....
     - Co-Executive Producer (season 1)
  • Alan J. Higgins
    Alan J. Higgins

    Former Des Moines, Iowa resident, brother of actor David Anthony Higgins and Saturday Night Live Assistant Producer Steve Higgns, Alan is best known as Associate Producer of the television series Malcom in the Middle for the seasons 1 through 3 and came back as a creative consultant for season seven....
     - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 1-3), Consultant (season 7)
  • Michael Glouberman - Supervising Producer (season 1), Co-Executive Producer (seasons 1-7)
  • Andrew Orenstein - Supervising Producer (season 1), Co-Executive Producer (seasons 1-5)
  • Alex Reid
    Alex Reid (screenwriter)

    Alex Reid is an American television producer, and screenwriter who won the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series....
     - Creative Consultant (season 1), Producer (seasons 1 and 2), Supervising Producer (season 3), Co-Executive Producer (seasons 4-7), Executive Producer (season 7)
  • Don Voorhees - Associate Producer (seasons 1 and 2), Co-Producer (seasons 3-7)
  • Bob Stevens - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 1-3)
  • Gary Murphy
    Gary Murphy

    Gary Murphy is an Republic of Ireland golfer....
     - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 2-7)
  • Neil Thompson - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 2-5), Consulting Producer (seasons 6 and 7)
  • Michael Borkow - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 3 and 4)
  • Maggie Bandur
    Maggie Bandur

    Maggie Bandur is an United States television writer and TV series film producer. ...
     - Executive Story Editor (seasons 2 and 3), Co-Producer (season 3), Producer (season 4), Supervising Producer (season 5)
  • Pang-Ni Landrum - Executive Story Editor (seasons 2 and 3), Co-Producer (season 3)
  • Dan Kopelman - Executive Story Editor (seasons 2 and 3), Co-Producer (season 3), Producer (season 4), Supervising Producer (season 5)
  • Matthew Carlson - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 4-6), Executive Producer (season 7)
  • Rob Hanning
    Rob Hanning

    Rob Hanning is an American television writer and producer.Writing Credits*Courting Alex*8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter...
     - Co-Executive Producer (season 4)
  • Bob Kushell
    Bob Kushell

    Bob Kushell is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. As of December 2008, Kushell began hosting his own talk show, Anytime with Bob Kushell, on Crackle....
     - Consulting Producer (season 4)
  • Janice Carr - Associate Producer (seasons 4 and 5), Co-Producer (seasons 6 and 7)
  • Rob Ulin - Co-Executive Producer (seasons 5-7)
  • Eric Kaplan
    Eric Kaplan

    Eric Kaplan is a Jewish American television screenwriting, television producer, and story editor. His work has included such shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Malcolm in the Middle, and most notably Futurama....
     - Supervising Producer (season 5), Co-Executive Producer (seasons 5-7)
  • Jennifer Celotta
    Jennifer Celotta

    Jennifer Ann Celotta is a United States television producer and writer.Among her credits are: Home Improvement, Malcolm in the Middle, Greg the Bunny, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, and The Office ....
     - Supervising Producer (season 6), Co-Executive Producer (season 6)
  • Jay Kogen
    Jay Kogen

    Jay Steven Kogen is an United States Humour writer. He has co-written several episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons along with former writing partner Wallace Wolodarsky....
     - Consulting Producer (season 6), Co-Executive Producer (season 7)
  • David Sacks
    David Sacks

    David Sacks is a television writer and producer. His writing and producing credits include The Simpsons, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, The Tick and Murphy Brown....
     - Consulting Producer (season 6)
  • Steve Welch - Supervising Producer (season 7)


DVD release

Only the first season of Malcolm in the Middle has been released on DVD. Season 2 was going to be released in Fall 2003 but was cancelled due to high costs of music clearances.

DVD NameRelease dateEp #Additional information
The Complete First SeasonOctober 29, 200216 Extended pilot episode, A Stroke of Genius featurette, Commentary on select episodes, Gag reel, Deleted scenes, Alternate show openings, bloopers, Dewey's Day Job featurette.


Reception


Ratings

As a midseason replacement
Midseason replacement

In North American television a midseason replacement is a television show that premieres in the second half of the traditional television season, usually between January and May....
 for Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
, the show quickly gained a large viewer base, starting off with ratings of 23 million for the debut episode and 26 million for the second episode.

Fox shuffled the show's air time repeatedly to make room for other shows, eventually giving it a free pass in its seventh and last season. After moving to Fridays at 8:30 p.m. next to The Bernie Mac Show
The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show is a half-hour United States situation comedy featuring the antics of comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana and Vanessa....
, Malcolm in the Middle averaged fewer than 3.5 million viewers a week, making it Fox's lowest-rated show. On January 13, 2006, Fox announced that the show would be moving to 7:00 on Sundays effective January 29, 2006. On January 17, 2006, Fox announced the cancellation of the series, with the 151st and final episode
Series finale

A series finale is the very last installment of a television series, usually a sitcom or drama. The term is typically used to refer to a planned ending, as opposed to an unplanned one when a series is suddenly cancelled by its television network....
 airing at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT (the show's original timeslot) on May 14, 2006. The finale was watched by 7.4 million viewers.

Season Premiere Final U.S. ratings
1 2000 January 9, 2000 May 21, 2000 20.0 million
2 2000-2001 November 5, 2000 May 20, 2001 18.0 million
3 2001-2002 November 11, 2001 May 12, 2002 15.0 million
4 2002-2003 November 3, 2002 May 18, 2003 9.1 million
5 2003-2004 November 2, 2003 May 23, 2004 8.7 million
6 2004-2005 November 7, 2004 May 15, 2005 5.8 million
7 2005-2006 September 30, 2005 May 14, 2006 3.5 million


In Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, in 2002 Malcolm in the Middle premiered on Channel Nine
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
, Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. It rated strongly, with the help from its lead in Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
, which at the time rated 2,279,000, 2,031,000 and 2,410,000 as the night's most watched show, and year's 2nd most watched TV program. Malcolm in the Middles ratings included 1,952,000, 1,925,000, 1,712,000, 1,644,000, and sometimes rating over the 2 million mark: 2,002,000, 2,008,000. Currently, it now airs from 3.00pm to 3.30pm on Channel Nine as part of its summer airing program.

In France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, the show first aired daily at 8 p.m. in December 2001, on M6, but didn't find its public and was quickly off schedule. Then, when the show made its comeback in the summer of 2003 at noon, it had a big success. The last seasons had over 1.5 million viewers and a share sometimes over 30 %. Nowadays, the channel is still programming reruns of the show because of its good performances.

Notable awards and nominations

Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek

Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
 and Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
 gained the highest honors in the cast for being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award every year they appeared on Malcolm in the Middle. Cloris Leachman succeeded in winning 2002 and 2006. The show won a total of 7 Emmys during its seven year run.

Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
  • 2000 - Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series - Todd Holland
    Todd Holland

    Todd Holland is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award - winning United States Television director and film director and Television producer. He grew up in Meadville, PA, and was an honor student, graduating from ....
     for the Pilot Episode
  • 2000 - Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

    Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material....
     - Linwood Boomer
    Linwood Boomer

    Linwood Boomer is a Canadian television producer, writer, actor. He is well known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie , and for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
     for the Pilot Episode
  • 2001 - Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series - Todd Hollad for the Episode Bowling
  • 2001 - Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

    Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material....
     - Alex Reid
    Alex Reid

    'Alex Reid' is a British actress, born and raised in Cornwall, England and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She is probably best known for her roles as Captain Caroline Walshe in Seasons 1 and 2 of ITV's Special Air Service TV series Ultimate Force and as Beth O'Brien in 2005's The Descent....
     for the Episode     Bowling
  • 2002 - Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series....
     - Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     as Ida
  • 2003 - Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing in a Comedy Series - Mark Scheib and Steve Welch for the Episode If Boys Were Girls
  • 2006 - Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series....
     - Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     as Ida


Peabody Awards
  • 2001 - Peabody Award


Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
  • Outstanding Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

    Award winners and nomineesThis is a list of winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series....
     (2001) 1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.Award winners and nominations1950s...
     - Jane Kaczmarek
    Jane Kaczmarek

    Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
     as Lois (2000-2006) 7 nominations
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series

    This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winners1990s2000s...
     - Frankie Muniz
    Frankie Muniz

    Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
     as Malcolm (2001) 1 nomination
  • Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

    This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series....
     - Bryan Cranston
    Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Lee Cranston is an United States actor, voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his roles as Characters in Malcolm in the Middle#Hal in the Fox Network situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won an Emmy Award....
     as Hal (2002-2003, 2006) 3 nominations
  • Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series....
     - Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     as Ida (2001, 2003-2005) 4 nominations
  • Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series....
     - Bea Arthur as Mrs. White (2000) 1 nomination
  • Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series....
     - Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
     as Meg (2002) 1 nomination
  • Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series

    This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series....
     - Robert Loggia
    Robert Loggia

    Robert Loggia is an United States film and television actor who specializes in Character actor....
     as Grandpa Victor (2001) 1 nomination


Golden Globe Awards
  • Best TV Series - Musical or Comedy (2001) 1 nomination
  • Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy - Jane Kaczmarek
    Jane Kaczmarek

    Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
     (2001-2003) 3 nominations
  • Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy - Frankie Muniz
    Frankie Muniz

    Francisco "Frankie" M??iz IV is an Emmy Award nominated United States actor and racing driver. He is best known as the star of the Fox Network television family situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle....
     (2001-2002) 2 nominations
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Bryan Cranston
    Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Lee Cranston is an United States actor, voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his roles as Characters in Malcolm in the Middle#Hal in the Fox Network situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won an Emmy Award....
     (2003) 1 nomination


Screen Actors Guild Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild to recognize outstanding performances by members.SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995....
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Jane Kaczmarek
    Jane Kaczmarek

    Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
     (2000,2002) 2 nominations


International broadcasts

Country TV network(s) Year/Date
Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 		 FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, Canal 13
Canal 13 (Argentina)

Canal 13 is an Argentina television network.LS85 TV, Canal 13 Buenos Aires began its transmissions in 1960. The station was licensed to Proartel S.A., owned by Cuban Goar Mestre, the United States network CBS and the Time Life company....
, I-Sat 		2000
Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 		 Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
, 111 Hits
111 Hits

111 Hits is an Australian cable and satellite television channel which is currently available on the Foxtel and Optus Television subscription platform....
  		2002
Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 		 ORF1
ORF1

ORF1 is an Austrian television channel. It was the first television station in Austria, beginning in 1955.ORF1 is one of the three public TV channels in Austria....
  		2002
Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 		 2BE (TV channel) 2006
Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
 		 Rede Record
Rede Record

Rede Record is a Brazilian television network. Owned by Bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, it currently is Brazil's second largest television network....
, SBT, FOX 		2004
Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 		 bTV, Fox Life
Fox Life

Fox Life is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan . Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, which includes some original programming in certain regions....
  		2001
Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 		 YTV, Global
Global Television Network

Global Television Network is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. It is owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest which is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
, Télé-Québec
Télé-Québec

T?l?-Qu?bec is a French language public television educational television network in the Canada province of Quebec. It is a provincial crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec....
  		2000
Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 		 FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, Televisión Nacional de Chile, I-Sat 		2000
Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 		 RCN Televisión 2006
Costa Rica
Costa Rica

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
 		 Repretel 11
Repretel 11

Canal 11 is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Repretel since 1996.External links ...
  		2007
Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
 		 Nova TV
Nova TV

Nova TV is a Croatian commercial television network launched in November 2000. It was the first commercial television network with national concession in this country and since 2004 it is fully owned by the Central European Media Enterprises....
, RTL Televizija
RTL Televizija

RTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial television network that was launched on April 30, 2004 and is 65.5% owned by the RTL Group. It was launched as the second commercial television network with national concession in Croatia, the first being Nova TV....
  		2002
Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 		 TV 2 Zulu
TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu is a Denmark television station, which started broadcasting on October 15 2000. It is aimed at viewers between 15 and 40 years of age....
, TV3+ 		2003
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
 		 Telesistema Canal 11 2008
Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 		 Teleamazonas
Teleamazonas

Teleamazonas is an television channel in Ecuador. It broadcasts on channel 4 to Quito channel 5 to Guayaquil.Also on EchoStar's Dish Network DishLATINO programming package in the United States....
  		2004
Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 		 TV3
TV3 (Estonia)

TV3 is a private television channel in Estonia.Acquired programming on TV3 include The Simpsons, CSI Crime Scene Investigation, CSI Miami, CSI New York, 7th Heaven, House and several other shows....
  		2006
Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....
 		 Sjónvarp Føroya
Sjónvarp Føroya

Sj?nvarp F?roya means Television of the Faroe Islands. It is the only public TV station of the small country with its 48,000 inhabitants, speaking their own Faroese language....
  		2008
Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 		 MTV3
MTV3

MTV3 is a Finland Commercial broadcasting television station owned by Bonnier Group. Until recently it had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels when Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE1 took the lead....
  		2005
France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 		 M6, Paris Première
Paris Première

Paris Premi?re is a France television channel, available on cable television, satellite television and the Digital terrestrial television service, T?l?vision Num?rique Terrestre....
  		2001
Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 		 ProSieben 2001
Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 		 Macedonia TV
Macedonia TV

Macedonia TV is a Greece national television network, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. TV Macedonia has transmitters throughout northern Greece especially in the Macedonia region of Greece and large cities including Athens, Larissa, Kalamata, and Patras....
  		2008
Honduras
Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
 		 Canal 5 de Televicentro 2008
Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 		 TVB
TVB Pearl

TVB Pearl is one of the two Free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being Asia Television Ltd....
  		2001
Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
 		 SkjárEinn 2006
India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 		 STAR World
STAR World

STAR World is an Asian English language cable television and satellite television owned by STAR TV. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, which is now an Indian Hindi language entertainment channel....
  		2005
Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 		 STAR World
STAR World

STAR World is an Asian English language cable television and satellite television owned by STAR TV. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, which is now an Indian Hindi language entertainment channel....
  		2005
Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 		 Sky1, TV3
TV3 Ireland

TV3 Ireland is a television channel in Republic of Ireland, and was the country's first commercial broadcaster. TV3, along with other properties are a part of the TV3 Group - which also owns TV3's sister channel 3e....
  		2002
Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 		 Bip
Bip (channel)

Bip is a comedy channel which was founded in 2001 and is currently included on the channel pack of the Israel digital system Hot . It goes under the tagline Bip - Arutz HaTzhok ....
  		2002
Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 		 Italia 1
Italia 1

Italia 1 is an Italy commercial television station on the Mediaset network.It is oriented especially at young people....
  		2004
Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
  		NTV 2005
Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
 		 TV3
TV3 Lithuania

TV3 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group and targeted at a Lithuanian language-speaking audience. It was founded on May 7, 1992 and launched on April 11, 1993 as "Tele-3" before being renamed "TV3" in 1996....
  		2008
Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
 		 ntv7
Ntv7

Natseven TV Sdn Bhd or better known as ntv7 is a terrestrial television channel in Malaysia. It was launched nationwide on April 7 1998. Its mission is to promote a happier and more enlightened Malaysia....
, STAR World
STAR World

STAR World is an Asian English language cable television and satellite television owned by STAR TV. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, which is now an Indian Hindi language entertainment channel....
 		 2008
Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 		 Televisa
Televisa

Televisa is a Mexico multimedia company, the largest Mass media company in the Spanish language-speaking world. It is a major nternational entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract....
  		2004
Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
 		 MBC 4
MBC 4

MBC 4 is the first free-to-air channel in the Middle East aired specifically for American programs. It is one of the many spun-off channels from the Middle East Broadcasting Center ....
, MBC 2
MBC 2

MBC 2 is the first free-to-air channel to show non-stop Hollywood movies 24/7. Movies are subtitled in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa....
, Paramount Comedy
Paramount Comedy

Paramount Comedy can refer to a number of different comedy television channels operated by Viacom under the Paramount Pictures brand:...
  		2002
Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 		 Veronica Network, Comedy Central
Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an United States cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and broadcast syndication....
  		2003
New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 		 c4
C4 (New Zealand)

C4 is a television station operating in New Zealand and owned by MediaWorks NZ.The station was originally named TV4, and was launched in mid-1997 as a station for an 18-30 year-old audience featuring a mix of programmes, with the Holyfield-Tyson II as its very first broadcast....
  		2008
Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 		 TV2
TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....
  		2002
Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 		 Polsat
Polsat

Polsat is Poland's third biggest television channel, founded in 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Zak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group, which also owns other channels:...
  		2006
Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 		 SIC Radical
SIC Radical

SIC Radical is a cable television channel in Portugal owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunica??o , which also owns SIC Com?dia , SIC Not?cias and SIC Mulher....
 and FOX Portugal 		2009
Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
 		 RTV BK Telecom
RTV BK Telecom

Radio-televizija Braca Karic Telekom was a privately-owned radio-television company based in Belgrade, Serbia. It functioned as a privately-owned, revenue generating media outlet with a "G" rating and without editorial or content restrictions....
 2001
Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
 		 MediaCorp TV Channel 5
MediaCorp TV Channel 5

File:SBC5_logo.gifMediaCorp Channel 5 is a 24-hour, English language television channel based in Singapore. Programmes on Channel 5 normally include English dramas, variety shows, news, current affairs, game programmes, and general adaption of overseas productions, such as Singapore Idol and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?....
  		2007
Slovenia
Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
 		 Kanal A
Kanal A

Kanal A is Slovenia first private television network, commencing broadcasts in November 1991.A third of Kanal A's shares were bought by the SBS Broadcasting Group in 1997....
  		2005
South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
 		 M-Net
M-Net

Similar to Canal+ in France, the channel offers a mix of general entertainment, children's programmes, sports and movies, most of which are acquired from overseas but some are also locally produced....
  		2005
Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 		 Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)

Antena 3 de Television, S.A., is a Spain television station and media company, present in the television, radio and movie theater industries. It was the first private station in Spain, commencing broadcasts in 1990....
 		 2000
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
 		 MTV Television 2008
Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 		 TV6, TV3
TV3 (Sweden)

TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Modern Times Group . It was founded on December 31, 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3....
, TV4 		2006
Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 		 SF zwei 2000
Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
 		 True Series
True Series

True Series is a Thailand television channel owned and produced by TrueVisions. It features series, lifestyle programs and reality shows from around the world....
, STAR World
STAR World

STAR World is an Asian English language cable television and satellite television owned by STAR TV. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, which is now an Indian Hindi language entertainment channel....
  		2005
Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 		 CNBC-e
CNBC-e

CNBC-e is a hybrid business and financial/entertainment channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV Turkey.The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e....
, TNT
Turner Network Television

TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....
  		2003
Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
 		 NTV 2008
Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 		 Novyi Kanal
Novyi Kanal

Novyi Kanal is a Ukrainian tv-channel....
  		2004
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 		 Sky1, BBC2 Sepember 3 2000
United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 		 FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, FX, The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network

The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-07 United States network television schedule....
  		2000
Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
 		 Televen
Televen

Televen is a private Venezuelan national television network.Televen was created as an alternative for the traditional private television networks ....
  		2002
Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
 		 Vietnam Multimedia Corporation
Vietnam Multimedia Corporation

Vietnam Multimedia Corporation or Vietnam Television Corporation is a large multimedia corporation in Vietnam. It was founded on February, 1988 by Vietnam Television with the main purpose to construct television stations....
  		2005


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