Ratings: ABC Line-Up Enjoys a Big Night Due to Rainout

The Middle Wednesday was a good night for ABC, as comedies The Middle, Suburgatoryand Happy Endings all hit series highs in total viewers and in the 18-49 demo by which broadcasters measure their success. To boot, freshman series Revenge posted its second-highest numbers with viewers and young adults. Weather postpones Game 6 of the World Series There's an old baseball adage, "Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain ..." Answered prayers or not, ABC particularly benefited from the rainout of World Series Game 6 between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers since it was the only network that didn't treat Wednesday night as a 9-0 forfeit. Unlike the other networks, it ran mostly fresh episodes. Fox's rain check to viewers - back-to-back encores of Glee - notched 2.48 million (0.7 demo rating) and 2.3 million (0.7), respectively. Check out the rest of the day's news At 8/7, The Middle grabbed 10.19 million (up from 9.03 million last week) and tied its series high with a 3.1 demo rating, though it still finished second to CBS' Survivor: South Pacific, which pulled in 11.57 million viewers (3,4 demo rating. A repeat of NBC's Up All Night managed 3.81 million (1.1). In the next half-hour, Suburgatory lured 9.83 million (up from 8.79 million a week ago) with a 3.4 rating. A Whitney rerun totaled 4.11 million (1.2). Yet another repeat of The CW's Ringer got 1.29 million. America's Next Top Model, which followed, got 2.23 million (and a 1.0 demo rating that was a season high). Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows Criminal Minds, typically Wednesday night's most-watched show, was a rerun and entertained nearly 11.357 million people in prime time's middle hour - a mere 4,000 behind the Modern Family Halloween episode repeat, which took the demo competition, 4.4 to 2.8. A rerun of NBC's Harry's Law enticed 4.42 million (compared last week's first-run 8.18 million). Happy Endings had 8.34 million people tuning in at 9:30/8:30c - way up from last week's 6.89 million. Its demo rating was 3.5. In the final prime-time hour, ABC's Revenge scored 8.71 million (after two weeks of 7.94 million) and 2.8 demo rating vs. repeats of CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (9.01 million/2.0) and NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (3.51 million/0.8).

Matt's Guide to Wednesday TV: Halloween Hilarity and Horror, South Park and More!

James Roday, Dule Hill If you can spot the vampire reference in the line "Let the right ones in, buddy" - from tonight's enjoyably spoofy episode of USA Network's Psych (10/9c) - then you're in for a real treat, as Halloween is played for laughs (more often than not on purpose) on a variety of tonight's shows.The cleverest might be Psych's guest star-studded comic mystery (titled "This Episode Sucks"), in which a body drained of blood leads Shawn and Gus to deduce a vampire is on the loose. Could said fiend be the new mystery lady in Lassiter's life? She's played by original-movie Buffy Kristy Swanson, so anything's possible. Also making cameos: TV-Buffy alum Tom Lenk and eternal where-are-they-now curiosity Corey Feldman. But the real pleasure here is in watching James Roday (who co-wrote and directed the episode) and Dulé Hill work their way through a midnight movie marathon's worth of horror references, none funnier than when Gus is repeatedly mistaken as Count Chocula when it's so obvious (to him and Shawn, anyway) that he's dressed as the "iconic" Blacula. There's a pretty good Carrie joke as well. (Which reminds me: With Saturday Night Live in repeats this weekend, I sense a DVD horror-movie-a-thon in my immediate future.)Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!ABC's sitcom lineup also goes wall-to-wall Hallo-wacky, with Modern Family (9/8c) repeating last year's memorable episode in which Claire's haunted-house preparations go terribly awry. The rest of the shows are new. On The Middle (8/7c), Poor Sue Heck endures another costume fiasco and turns to her dad for advice on getting noticed - the right way - by boys, while Frankie is stuck taking Brick and his socially challenged "skills group" trick or treating. ... Jay Mohr guests on Suburgatory (8:30/7:30c) as Dallas' often-absent husband, while Tessa's suburban-chic costume freaks out her new classmates when it reminds them too much of a recently passed neighbor. ... There's a costume party on Happy Endings (9:31/8:31c), and as usual, Max and Penny (the show's funniest characters) kill it, as he plays "wing baby" strapped on to her new-mom ensemble, which makes things awkward when both find new friends to flirt with. As a reminder of all the failed relationship comedies of last season, David Walton of NBC's short-lived Perfect Couples guests as a partygoer who misinterprets an ailing Alex's Marilyn Monroe get-up. As for Jane and Brad, running afoul of trick-or-treaters as they housesit in the suburbs, they could just stay there for as much as they add to this show.Taking the holiday a tad more seriously, although with such a high camp threshold it tends to inspire giggles more than shrieks (especially whenever the rubber-suited ghoul appears), FX's American Horror Story (10/9c) kicks off an above-par two-parter featuring a very lively Zachary Quinto as the bitchier half of the ill-fated gay couple who lived in the "Murder House" just prior to the unhappy Harmons. The show is still an undisciplined hodgepodge that tends to stall whenever it focuses on the mopey core family, but it comes alive in spooky flashbacks - especially those involving the house's first tenants, a drug-addled "doctor to the stars" secret abortionist (Big Love's Matt Ross) and his unhappy wife (Broadway star Lily Rabe). As usual, the highlight is any scene involving Jessica Lange as flamboyant neighbor Constance, who this week channels Carrie's Piper Laurie in her overwrought scenes with her daughter Addie. And there's a nifty cliffhanger to boot. This is never as scary as AMC's The Walking Dead, but it's miles more nutty.Also hoping to evoke goosebumps, BBC America launches the evocative six-part crime thriller Whitechapel (10/9c) as part of its "Dramaville" franchise. The first three episodes form a mini-arc, as an ambitious and well-connected but woefully inexperienced London copper (Rupert Penry-Jones) is given a trial by fire as he's put on the trail of a killer replicating the savage 19th century murders of Jack the Ripper. The mystery is perhaps a too time-honored classic, and there's little subtlety to the shock-cut gruesomeness: "Welcome to hell, gentlemen," the coroner cheerfully announces during a grisly autopsy. But there is potent workplace tension, as the fastidious young boss tries to win over his resentful and unruly seen-it-all colleagues. They're skeptical of the Ripper connection, but the new guy consults an avid Ripper-ologist anyway. When the expert expresses his enthusiasm for "the irresistible siren call of a mystery, the delectable twists of a conundrum ... that delicious eureka moment when the scales fall away and everything is laid bare," we can almost believe Whitechapel is in that grand tradition.On a lighter note, if you're not already Broadway'd out by this week's Dancing With the Stars extravaganza, Comedy Central's South Park, which has been pretty spotty so far this fall, takes on the Great White Way. Tonight's episode (10/9c) is a much-anticipated collaboration/reunion between Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone and their Book of Mormon co-creator Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), who all made Tony magic together with the mega-hit Mormon musical. The focus is on Randy and Sharon, Stan's parents, who head to Broadway to see all the shows after Randy catches the musical-theatre bug. Could this be the episode that earns South Park a Standing O this season?So what else is on? ... The World Series moves back to St. Louis for Game 6 (Fox, starts at 7:30/ET). If the home team wins, the series goes to a climactic Game 7 on Thursday. If the Texas Rangers win, it's all over until next year. ... While every other show celebrates Halloween, it's the Fourth of July on ABC's Revenge (10/9c), and the Graysons once again are throwing a party that's bound to be disrupted. The culprit this time is a scandalous surveillance video - of Lydia's violent fall from grace, perhaps? - that drives a wedge between the Graysons and their sinister head of security, Frank (Max Martini). ... CBS' Survivor (8/7c) is touting a risky move by one of the tribes' players that "will go down in Survivor history." The episode is titled "Trojan Horse," which could be a clue to what goes down. ... If Maks thought he had it rough in the judging on Dancing With the Stars, wait until the America's Next Top Model All-Stars (The CW, 9/8c) get a load of their guest judge this week: the hilariously outspoken Kathy Griffin. ... How sweet it is: One of the final three chef-testants will be named the winner in the season finale of Bravo's Top Chef: Just Desserts (10/9c).Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Kim Kardashian To Co-Star In Tyler Perrys Next Movie The Marriage Counselor

EXCLUSIVE: Using what comes lower to her most substantial acting role up to now, Kim Kardashian has signed onto costar inside the Counselor, the Lionsgate film Tyler Perry will next direct, based on his stage play. Shooting begins October 26 in Atlanta. The film notifies the story of Judith, an Ivy League-educated relationship expert who makes her living meting out marital advice, but is actually fed up with her own marriage they breaks her professional code and cheats getting an even speaking client only to realize she's developed a huge mistake. Jurnee Smollett plays the marriage counselor and Kardashian may have Ava, a co-worker who gives Judith a sizable city transformation and new confidence as she struggles along with her personal issues. Kardashian formerly carried out roles inside the films Deep inside the Valley and Disaster Movie.

'Anonymous' Scaly To Limited Release finally Minute

'Anonymous' -- the film that posits someone apart from William Shakespeare authored the truly amazing bard's plays -- was set to spread out countrywide on March. 28 on 1000's of screens. Now, The new sony Pictures has made the decision release a the film on only 250 screens. The studio transformed its plans after pre-release surveys established that the drama wasn't monitoring well, based on the L.A. Occasions. The Roland Emmerich-directed film will open wider in November, after -- the studio hopes -- reviews that are positive from audiences and experts. "We like the image and think it is going to get great person to person," stated Rory Bruer, Sony's distribution leader. "We are devoted to growing it until it plays wide." This is actually the first "indie" movie and first period drama from director Roland Emmerich, who's also known for epic-scale disaster movies '2012' and 'The Next Day Of Tomorrow.' 'Anonymous' stars Rhys Ifans because the Earl of Oxford (the alleged real author of Shakespeare's works) and Rafe Spall (boy of 'Harry Potter' actor Timothy Spall) as Shakespeare. Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and David Thewlis co-star. [via LAT] [Photo: The new sony Pictures] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Why Disney's Muppets Movie Has turned into a Risk for your Studio

This informative article first came out inside the March. 28 problem in the Hollywood Reporter.our editor recommends'Muppets': Full Trailer in the Jason Segel-Could Be Film Surfaces (Video)'The Muppets' at D23: Jason Segel Talks about Their Comedy Influence (Video)'The Muppets' Trailer Showcases Hollywood Cameos (Video)'Green Lantern's' Ryan Reynolds Can get Punked With the Muppets (Video)'Muppets' Movie Soundtrack Features Feist, Flight in the Conchords, Andrew BirdMuppets Creator Jim Henson Honored on 75th BirthdayOK Go Party While using Muppets (Video) Adams, Cooper and Manley joining Muppets movie (exclusive) We're searching to obtain the old gang back together again again!" states a voice that unmistakably would go to Kermit the Frog, inside the many Muppets trailers the Disney marketing machine has lobbed online in recent days. "We haven't transported this out in the very very long time," states another, somewhat anxious voice, identifiable having a as Fozzie Bear's. Plus it's true -- they haven't attempted it in the very very long time. A whole generation might not recognize Fozzie Bear in addition to Kermit inside the fur, a more compact amount the appear from the voices. Which's the job as Disney prepares to create the Muppets into theaters the first time in more than ten years. VIDEO: 'The Muppets' Trailer Showcases Hollywood Cameos The stakes are high, while not because the film's budget, inside the $40 million range, signifies an enormous financial gamble or because the hit-hungry Wealthy Ross regime may use victory. Once The Muppets scores, Disney finally might have determined the best way to relaunch an abandoned franchise that was probably the most storied on television world, fixing a puzzle that has baffled the business since it acquired the legendary figures in 2004. Disney has labored getting a vengeance waiting for the film's November. 23 release to trend within the figures online, including amusing spoofs of those films since the Hangover Part II as well as the Girl While using Dragon Tattoo. A sound lesson sang by stars Jason Segel and may Be opened up on Ryan Seacrest's radio show March. 12. The studio remains buoyed by strong test tests, and based on Internet chatter, anticipation for your film is high. Nevertheless the Muppets haven't experienced theaters since Muppets From Space tanked for that new the new sony in 1999. With different Muppets veteran, toward the conclusion of his existence, Muppets creator Jim Henson was finding it challenging to keep his creatures inside the public eye. He was operating individually inside an era of media concentration, which supports explain his decision to promote to Disney. "It absolutely was difficult before Jim died [in 1990], plus it increased being very, very difficult after Jim died," states this insider ruefully. "We'd the figures still doing things however with no constant, in-your-face exposure that something such as The Simpsons has. ... They lost a period.In . VIDEO: 'The Muppets' at D23: Jason Segel Talks about Their Comedy Influence Causeing this to be the Muppets' large chance. "A component film may be an extremely effective approach to relaunch a brand name,In . states kids TV veteran Toper Taylor, leader of Cookie Jar Entertainment. "Hopefully they'll be capable of bottle lightning once again.Inch Certainly it labored for that new the new sony while using Smurfs. It had been a couple of decades since the blue creatures had their heyday, as well as the studio introduced them roaring back getting an international gross more than $540 million. (Getting a $110 million budget, the wager was far more than Disney's round the Muppets.) In relaunching brands, Taylor states, it's essential to make sure you "don't disenchant their core audience." That's where the path for your Muppets is challenging. The old Muppets guard -- several authors and artists associated with creating the franchise -- is searching toward the neglected troupe to shine again, almost desperate inside their desiring the film to use. But though they haven't seen it, some wonder if film author and star Segel -- an obsessed Muppets fan -- features a true grasp in the figures they aided create. Related Subjects Jason Segel Wealthy Ross The Wally Disney Company The Muppets The Jim Henson Company 1 2 3 4 next last

Lindsay Lohan's Probation Suspended

Lindsay Lohan was removed in handcuffs today following a judge suspended her probation status pending a hearing. She published her $100,000 bail and can go back to court on November 2 to discover if she'll be coming back to jail. Judge Stephanie Saunter stated that Lohan had neglected the 360 hrs of community service in a women's shelter -- in addition to another 120 in the coroner's office -- she was needed to accomplish after being sentenced for any driving under the influence conviction in 2007 and shoplifting conviction earlier this May. Based on the LA Occasions, the actress "rarely made an appearance in a women's shelter" turning up for just 21 from the 360 hrs. The final movie Lohan is at Robert Rodriguez's 2010 film, 'Machete.' [via LA Occasions] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Fox Adapting Zombieland for TV

Jamie Bamber Jamie Bamber has been cast for a multi-episode arc on Body of Proof, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The Battlestar Galactica alum will play Scott Decker, a potential love interest for medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany). TVLine.com first reported the news. Check out the rest of today's news Post-BSG, Bamber made an appearance on Dollhouse and starred in Law & Order: UK. He also landed the lead role in Ron Moore's fantasy drama pilot 17th Precinct, which failed to get a pickup at NBC. Body of Proof airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on ABC.