Malcolm in the Middle revival four episodes hint at 20-year jump

Frankie Muniz said he loved filming the Malcolm in the Middle reboot and warned fans they may be surprised by where the Wilkerson family ends up after 20 years. The four-episode revival, titled Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair, finished production in May and is scheduled to premiere in December on Disney, producers and cast members said.

Muniz, who played the gifted teen Malcolm in the original series, told the Lightweights podcast that shooting the limited return was "the best time of my entire life" and that viewers should temper expectations about how much of two decades of change could be shown in four half-hour episodes. "I think people will be surprised, in a sense, where everybody is and the story," he said. "It is hard to fit in 20 years of stuff into four 30-minute episodes, right? But I think people are going to be very happy with what they came up with."

The revival reunites Muniz with Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek, who return as Hal and Lois Wilkerson, and brings back Christopher Masterson and Justin Berfield as Malcolm's older brothers. Erik Per Sullivan, who originally played youngest brother Dewey, declined to return; the role has been recast with...