Malcolm in the Middle (Reboot Series)

Malcolm in the Middle is an American reboot television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was first broadcast on October 9, 2011, and ended its six-year run on May 26, 2017, after seven seasons and 151 episodes. The series received critical acclaim and won a Peabody Award, seven Emmy Awards, one Grammy Award, and seven Golden Globe nominations.

Plot
The series is about a boy named Malcolm and his dysfunctional family. The show stars Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, the third of four and later five boys, his brothers, and their parents, Lois  and Hal. Their first child, Francis, was sent away to military school, leaving his three younger brothers at home, Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey with Malcolm being the middle child still living at home. In season four, the character Jamie was added to the show as the fifth son of Hal & Lois. The show's early seasons centered on Malcolm dealing with the rigors of being an adolescent and enduring the eccentricities of his life. Later seasons gradually explored the other members of the family and their friends in more depth, including others such as Craig Feldspar, Lois' coworker at the Lucky Aide drugstore, Malcolm's friend Stevie Kenarban, and Stevie's dad Abe.

The series was different from many others in that Malcolm broke the fourth wall by talking directly to the viewer, all scenes were shot using a single-camera setup. and the show employed neither a laugh track nor a live studio audience. Emulating the style of hour-long dramas, this half-hour show was shot on film instead of on video. Another distinctive aspect of the show is that the cold open of every episode is unrelated to the main story. Exceptions were episodes which were the conclusions of "two-parters"; each part two episode opened with a recap of its part one episode. The family's surname was never mentioned directly on the series. Linwood Boomer's script for the pilot episode originally included the surname Wilkerson, but it was later removed because he did not want to put "any specific ethnic label on the characters". The surname appeared in early drafts of promotional material and also on Francis' uniform in the pilot. A publicist for Fox said that, "officially the family's last name should be considered a mystery"

Cast

 * Rachel Harris as Lois Wilkerson
 * Crispin Glover as Hal Wilkerson
 * Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Francis Wilkerson
 * Asa Butterfield as Reese Wilkerson
 * Ty Simpkins as Dewey Wilkerson
 * Tye Sheridan as Malcolm Wilkerson
 * Owen and Connor Fielding as Jamie Wilkerson
 * Tyrel Jackson-Williams as Stevie Kenarban
 * Anthony Anderson as Abe Kenarban