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Asner to play newsman on 'The Middle'

Ed Asner arrives at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 7, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen
Ed Asner arrives at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 7, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Edward Asner is to guest star as a veteran newsman on the American family sitcom "The Middle," ABC announced.

One of Asner's most famous roles is that of Lou Grant, a TV news director on the sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and a newspaper city editor on the drama "Lou Grant."

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He is to appear on the March 14 episode of "The Middle."

The show stars Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher and Atticus Shaffer as the blue-collar Heck family, living in Indiana.

Heaton's father Chuck was a longtime sportswriter for The (Cleveland) Plain-Dealer.

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