Linwood Boomer And Frankie Muniz Appear Content With What They Achieved With The ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Revival

While big viewership goes a long way when an additional season is being considered by any studio, the talent obviously needs to be on board for more, too.

So, while Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair attracted a big audience, the series’ creator, Linwood Boomer, appears to be content with the series ending with Life’s Still Unfair, even though the door is open for more.

Asked whether Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair was a “one-and-done” event, Boomer told TV Line in an April 12 article, "For now, it is. I'm an old man. I'm very tired, but it was such a great experience, and I think creatively, it really worked. So, you never know. I don't think it would have happened the way it happened if the idea was to do an entire series again."

While Muniz told TV Line that he “would love to be Malcolm again,” but the intention of coming back to the series for a revival was just to tell the story at hand and nothing beyond that. Like Boomer, though, Muniz seems to be open to other possibilities.

“The intention of this was just these four episodes, Muniz told TV Line. “I don’t think it was made with the intention of being a test or that more could come from it, but you never know what will happen. If people love it, maybe.”

Originally, Muniz said, Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair was a movie, but eventually it morphed into an episodic format.

“It would start and an hour-and-a-half later it would end and that would be it,” Muniz told TV Line. “But we're calling it four episodes. It's one storyline that goes over those four episodes. That was the [only] intention of filming this."

Original Malcolm in the Middle cast members Chris Kennedy Masterson (Francis), Justin Berfield (Reese) and Emy Coligado (Piama) returned for Life’s Still Unfair, but Erik Per Sullivan, who played Dewey in the series from 2000 to 2006, opted not to return for the series revival. Sullivan was replaced by Caleb Ellsworth-Clark.

In addition to Keely Karsten playing Malcolm’s daughter, new cast members for the revival include Vaughan Murrae, who plays Malcolm’s youngest sibling, Kelly, and Kiana Madeira as Malcolm’s girlfriend, Tristan.

Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’s four episodes and all 151 episodes of the original Malcolm in the Middle series are streaming on Hulu on Disney+.

April 14: The network for the original “Malcolm in the Middle” series was mistakenly referred to as ABC, when the show actually aired on Fox. The mistake has been corrected.