Before `Roseanne`s` revival, `The Middle` carried the torch for America`s heartland
(LA Times MLB)

After nine seasons, the saga of the Hecks of Orson, Ind., comes to an end Tuesday night. Like the Hecks themselves, `The Middle,` the ABC sitcom that contains them, has kept chugging along, doing its less-than-glamorous, seemingly old-fashioned thing for a reliable 6 million to 8 million viewers...