
In an announcement detailing its Summer and Fall schedule, ABC Family has released the first images from the new series based on the Viper Comics title 'The Middleman'
Paul Lee, president, ABC Family, outlined ABC Family's plans for Summer and Fall of 2008. Scheduled to debut this summer are new original series including 'The Middleman' and 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'.
"ABC Family has just grown and grown and we're thrilled this summer to be adding two great new original series targeted at our Millennial audience," said Mr. Lee. "We think 'The Middleman' written by Javier Grillo-Marxauch [the comic's creator] and 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager' written by Brenda Hampton are going to be great additions to our defining original series. And then we're going to finish out the summer with our six part premiere television event 'Samurai Girl.'"
'The Middleman,' a new one hour series based on the popular graphic novels by writer/producer Javier Grillo-Marxauch ("Lost," "Medium"), premieres Monday, June 16, (Time TBD). 'The Middleman' follows the surreal life of twenty-something year-old Wendy Watson as she gets recruited by a top secret agency to fight comic book-esque criminals under the guidance of her straight-laced boss, The Middleman. The thirteen episode order stars Matt Keeslar, Natalie Morales, Mary Pat Gleason, Brit Morgan and Jake Smollett.