This might be the saddest news of the day – Eden Sher‘s Sue Heck spinoff from The Middle isn’t going forward at ABC.
Deadline reports that the show, which would follow eternal optimist Sue Heck 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, is being shopped around though by producing studio Warner Bros. TV.
The show would also starChris Diamantopoulos, Brock Ciarlelli, Kimberley Crossman, Finesse Mitchell and Aaron Branch.
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This is probably the greatest news of the week – The Middle spinoff with Eden Sher is officially moving forward with a pilot commitment!
Deadline reports that the new series would follow eternal optimist Sue Heck, the middle child from The Middle, 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.
The Middle creators Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline will serve as writers and executive producers on the new show.
No premiere date, or official title, has been set just yet, however, if the series was to be fully greenlit, it could be a mid-season series.
Eden recently spoke about the upcoming show during her appearance at Comic-Con. Check it out here!
Earlier this year, we were so stoked to hear about a possible The Middle spin-off, centered on Sue Heck, and it looks like it’s moving forward!
Eden Sher, who played Sue in the long running ABC series, opened up to TVLine about the spin-off show.
“We are shooting a pilot,” Eden shared. “I hope it gets picked up. I think it’s going to be great.”
She adds that it would take place “somewhere in between the end of the show and that future. It would not be in the flash-forward, I can tell you that. I don’t think she’d be married. That would take place like 10 years in the future, so I know it’s not going to be like that. She’s not going to be married.”
In The Middle series finale there was a flash forward and we saw Sue marry her on-and-off-again love Sean.
The possible Sue spin-off would be right after college.
“I think it would be a little [farther] but not in the future enough to be married,” Eden added. “I think that was a happily ever after thing for really far [away]. That’s not Sue being Sue as a young adult.”
Meanwhile, Sue finds herself being mocked after posting a sign in the dorm laundry room to help find one of her lost socks, and after Brick turns in an “I Can’t” project at school and indicates that he can’t do sports, Coach Babbitt makes it her mission to turn him into an athlete.
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