ABC to End Long-Running Comedy

Source: ABC
ABC has announced they will be saying goodbye to the Heck family.
The Middle, which helped launch ABC’s Wednesday evening sitcom line-up back in 2009, will be going off air at the end of season nine.
The show focused on the Heck family with Everyone Loves Raymond’s Patricia Heaton as the sometimes scatterbrained mom-of-three. The show was a breath of fresh air showing a family living life on a budget, in a home with a hodge-podge mix of furnishings – and doing it with a down to earth sense of humor.
ABC Entertainment president, Channing Dungey, released a statement saying, “The Heck family has been part of the ABC family for almost a decade. It’s rare for a series to have this type of longevity, and we are proud to have been its home…Last year we sat down with our cast and made the bittersweet decision together that in this ninth season it is time to bring the Hecks’ story to a close.”
The ninth and final season of The Middle will kick off on ABC October 3rd.