First up, this week’s Middlecast features Andy Reaser - writer of “Flying Fish” and tonight’s “Vampiric Puppet.” If you’d like to submit questions for the podcast, do so here. (It’s LJ, but anon comments are turned ON - if you want credit for your question and are posting anonymously, please sign your comment!)

If you’d like to listen or call in live, then Tuesday the 19th go here at 9/8c 6 pacific.

It’s episode night! Tonight’s Reaseriffic episode involves Vlad the Impaler and Ventriloquist dummies - you can’t get any better than that!

To see an exclusive clip with a special guest star, go here!

And don’t forget to watch ABC Family at 10/9c!

We’re still kicking butt at Hey Nielsen, but we have dropped a little. Don’t forget it!

And lastly, it appears someone at Middleman HQ knows how to cook!

HAVE A GREAT MIDDLEWEEK!

ART CRAWL!

We have a new admin - TaraLJC!  She’s been a Middlefan for as long as I have and actually I’m pretty sure she was a Javi fan before I was! (I know, blasphemy! j/k!)

Anyway, I found this clip on her journal which she might have posted later, but I decided to go ahead and put it up to get it out there before the ep tonight.

Anyway, for the clip just click here! (Clip by Brian Ashcraft)

Also io9 (which pimps “Middleman” a LOT!) has a clip as well as IGN!

And don’t forget tonight is the SORBO EP!

There are plenty of campaigns and petitions online, but here are a few other ways to help out:

Go to http://abcfamily.go.com/middleman and give them page views or better yet — comments!

Watch the vids, comment to the blogs, and (when it’s working again) post in the forum!

Watch the viewing parties - http://themiddleman.lycos.com

You can go alone and start them anytime - over the next few days just set them up and let the episodes run while you clean up or something. It gives them advertising dollars and numbers.

No Nielsen box? Well, now Nielsen lets you vote on shows:

http://www.heynielsen.com/view/the-middleman/

I don’t know how much it counts towards ratings, but It’s SOMETHING.

And on Tuesday 8/12/08, The Middlecast will be talking to Javi and perhaps more ways of saving the show will come up!

WE CAN SAVE THE MIDDLEMAN SO HE AND WENDY DON’T HAVE TO!

I know, I know - I suck!

It was a LONG week preceding Comic-Con and an even LONER one after it.

ANYWAY - how much I do or don’t suck is beside the point - TONIGHT IS  A NEW EP! And it’s by Sarah Watson who is awesome.

So, WATCH IT at 10/9c!

Sorry I’ve been so behind lately - it’s just been CRAZY insane preparing for Comic-Con!

First, check out the podcast thingy to the right of the marxwatch.com mainpage - we interviewed Andy Reaser, writer of last week’s Middleman episode!

Also, you BETTER watch tonight’s! It’s by my friend, Jordan Rosenberg, and it. is. AWESOME!

So, watch ABC Family at 10/9c for the best episode yet of “The Middleman!”

Off to do more work!

It’s Monday night and that means SHOW NIGHT!

For info on tonight’s show head on over to the episodes page on Middlefan and scroll down to today’s date!

For the trailer, click here!

And for a tiny bit of a spoilery preview, click here!

ART CRAWL!

This here’s the official-type press release from ABC Family on their Comic-Con activities!

ABC FAMILY HEADS TO COMIC-CON

WITH STARS, SHWAG AND SCI-FI FUN

Network to feature “The Middleman,” “Samurai Girl” and “Kyle XY”

Burbank, CA (June 30, 2008) – For the third consecutive year ABC Family will have a presence at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego to promote three projects, “The Middleman,” “Samurai Girl” and “Kyle XY.” From July 23^rd – 27^th, ABC Family will be in the thick of things at booth #3913 with premium give-aways, Q&A panel sessions with talent and producers, and autograph sessions after each panel.

Here is a run-down of ABC Family’s panel schedules:

Thursday, July 24^th

2:00 – 3:00 PM The Middleman Q&A panel with star Matt Keeslar and show creator and executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach in room 5AB.

3:30 – 4:30 PM The Middleman autograph session in booth 3913.

Friday, July 25^th

12:00 – 1:00 PM Samurai Girl Q&A panel with stars Jamie Chung, Brendan Fehr, Stacy Keibler, executive producers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, and co-executive producer Luke McMullen.

1:30 – 2:30 PM Samurai Girl autograph session in booth 3913.

Saturday, July 26^th

12:30 – 1:30 PM Kyle XY Q&A panel with stars Matt Dallas, Jaimie Alexander and co-executive producer Julie Plec in room 5AB.

2:00 – 3:00 PM Kyle XY autograph session in booth 3913.

ABC Family will be giving away a series of “The Middleman” collector pins and “Samurai Girl” themed temporary tattoo sheets, as well as allowing visitors to the booth a chance to navigate features on ABCFamily.com for the whole duration of the convention.

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I, myself, will be at the ABC Family table on and off throughout the weekend!  If you’re at the con, stop by and say, “Hi!”

Tuesday nights have recently brought this odd convergence of minds at or around 9/8c  (sometimes the minds are lazy and forgather 15 or so minutes late). Those minds tend to discuss ABC Family’s “The Middleman” and go over the little extra bits people might have missed upon first viewing.  Feel free to join those minds live on TalkShoe as they discuss last night’s episode of The Middleman. Once the podcast is done it will appear in that little feed thingy on the right side of the MarxWatch main page.

Enjoy the melding of minds…. IF YOU CAN!

Tonight’s episode at 10/9c is written by Tracey Stern and directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It’s called “The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum” and is the fourth episode aired, but was the second produced. So those wondering why certain threads are finally being dealt with while other more recent threads are only just barely mentioned - that’s why.

So far, the remainder of the episodes are to air in production order.

I don’t have a trailer but here’s a nifty featurette.

And here’s a fun way to watch the episode. But keep in mind that it spoils the reference theme for tonight, so if you don’t wanna know what that is then check it out AFTER you watch to see if you caught the refs!

For the official ABC Family description of the episode, click “more” or keep reading!

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