Malcolm in the Middle, the new mid-season, live-action, single-camera family comedy on Fox TV, is already emerging as a hit, boasting more than 23 million viewers Sunday.?The show received the highest Fox Network viewership among 18-49 year-olds since 1992's In Living Color.?It breaks some of the so-called "rules" of the industry: Viewers reject single-camera comedies or shows without a laugh track; Fox can't launch a live-action comedy behind The Simpsons (the show, in fact, scored Fox's best post-Simpsons ratings ever); and how about the notion that family comedies are irrelevant? The show's creator, Linwood Boomer, calls those rules "a crutch".?Read more ...
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