Patricia Heaton

Emmy winner Patricia Heaton is best known for her roles on long-running comedy Everybody Loves Raymond and on the popular sitcom The Middle. She now returns to television as the lead in Carol's Second Act, playing divorced fifty-year-old Carol Kenney who after raising two children and retiring as a teacher decides to finally pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Just like Carol, when Heaton's children left the nest, she found herself in a new and...

A collection of simple, budget-friendly recipes from the popular television actress features such dishes as blackberry cream scones, spinach and cheese strata, eggplant parmigiana, apricot-glazed pork chops, and lemon-orange curd tartlets.

Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter who deals with his brother and parents, who happen to live across the street from him and his family.

The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.

As middle-agged, middle-class, middle-of-the-country mom Frankie Heck tackles the mundane chaos of everyday life her kids manufacture drama, and her husband offers his support while sitting on the living room couch.

Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter and devoted husband and father. Unfortunately, he must deal with his bickering parents, as well as his dopey brother, who all live close by and are constantly dropping in.

In the ninth and final season, Frankie and Mike had hoped to find themselves with an emptier nest, but with Axl now back at home, they find that hope quickly fading. Meanwhile, Sue and Sean Donahue will have to work out their unrequited feelings. And Brick makes a play to be more popular in high school.

It never stops for successful sports writer Ray Barone, whose oddball family life consists of a fed up wife, overbearing parents, and an older brother with lifelong jealousy.

Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.

The seventh season sees each member of the Heck family breaking out of their comfort zones. Oldest son Axl begins his junior year, and the business major starts thinking seriously about his future. Daughter Sue starts her first year of college at the same campus that Axl attends -- much to his disgust -- with a new haircut and an even more optimistic outlook. Quirky youngest son Brick begins his final year of middle school, and his equally quirky...