How Frankie Muniz’s NASCAR Schedule Affected the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Reboot

People all over the world have experience juggling week days to fit everything going on in their lives. For Frankie Muniz, in particular, this meant balancing his two different jobs on opposite ends of the United States.

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Muniz is an actor, but he is also a full-time driver in the Craftsman Truck Series. This meant that he had to alter his schedule a tad while filming the Malcolm in the Middle reboot, which will debut on Hulu and Disney+ on April 10.

Executive Producer Linwood Boomer spoke with Entertainment Weekly for a longform story about the returning sitcom and revealed that they had some difficulties finding six weeks to shoot due to Muniz’s racing schedule.

Instead of doing the standard Monday through Friday shoot, they switched to a Sunday through Thursday schedule. The 25 Craftsman Truck Series races primarily take place on Friday evenings as the drivers compete on the eastern side of the United States.

The teams occasionally race on Saturday afternoons. The fall race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee takes place on a Thursday night in mid-September.

Last season’s schedule also only included two trips to out West. The Truck Series teams raced outside of Las Vegas in March 2025. They raced outside of Phoenix in October 2025.

“I would film Sunday through Wednesday, fly Thursday, race Friday, and fly back Saturday,” Muniz told Entertainment Weekly.

“It was exhausting, but I also know how cool it is to have the opportunity to get to do this again, so I wasn’t going to complain at all. I am so thankful to everybody on the production for working around my NASCAR schedule.”

Muniz had dabbled in open wheel racing earlier in his acting life, but he didn’t take on a full-time stock car racing schedule until 2023 when he drove full-time in the ARCA Menards Series and finished fourth in the championship standings.

The Arizona native only competed part-time in 2024, but he moved up to the Truck Series in 2025 with Team Reaume. He competed full-time while driving the No. 33 Ford F-150. Although he missed four races due to an injury sustained falling from a ladder.

Muniz is back full time with Team Reaume, and he continues to drive a Ford F-150. He has completed four races this season so far and has finished a season-best 16th at Daytona International Speedway. He will continue the season on April 3 at Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina.