Cheers & Jeers: Why Does not Everyone Love The Center?

Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton Cheers towards the Middle for showing it goes towards the top of the sitcom pack. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! The ABC comedy's Wednesday stablemate Modern Family won Emmys in each and every qualified category over the past weekend, while Patricia Heaton's Indiana clan did not earn just one nomination. What is? Maybe since the show happens in the center of the nation (hence the title) and focuses on a classic-fashioned nuclear family, it isn't considered edgy enough for Emmy. However The Middle is evenly as funny, well-behaved - and modern - as Family. The 3rd-season opener wittily reunited Heaton together with her Everyone Loves Raymond husband Ray Romano, who guested inside a flashback as Mike's nudnik ex-high-school classmate who nearly destroyed his honeymoon with Heaton's Frankie. In one of many clever in-jokes, Romano told Heaton, "You realize, within an alternate world, we could've been happy together." As well as in another alternate world, the Emmys could've gone mad for that Middle and Romano's Males of the Certain Age, and that i would have been happy. Would you love The Center?