Back to You (TV series)
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by |
Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan |
| Directed by | James Burrows |
| Starring |
Kelsey Grammer Patricia Heaton Ayda Field Laura Marano Lily Jackson Josh Gad Ty Burrell Fred Willard |
| Theme music composer | Adam Anders |
| Composer(s) | Paul Buckley |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (3 unaired) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan James Burrows Kelsey Grammer |
| Producer(s) | Maggie Randell-Blanc |
| Location(s) |
Pittsburgh, 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles, CA |
| Editor(s) | Ron Volk |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Picture Day Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
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| Original network | Fox |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | September 19, 2007 – May 14, 2008 |
Back to You is an American sitcom which aired on Fox from September 19, 2007 to May 14, 2008. The creators and executive producers were Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, and the director was James Burrows. The series starred Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as squabbling anchors of a news program.
Chuck Darling (Grammer) and Kelly Carr (Heaton) were co-anchors of Pittsburgh news program WURG News 9 that had great on-screen chemistry, despite constant quarreling off-screen. However, Chuck left to take a job elsewhere. After an embarrassing comment he makes results in his dismissal from a large market LA newscast, Chuck returns to Pittsburgh after 10 years to become anchor on the newscast he originally left. Chuck also learns that he is the father of Carr's 10-year-old daughter. Their daughter, Gracie, turns 11 years old in the episode, "Something's Up There".
It was reported in January 2007 that Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton were in talks to lead the cast of the series, originally titled Action News, which only had a script commitment with 20th Century Fox Television at the time. The script was reportedly a hot commodity with numerous networks interested before Fox outbid the competition and gave it a blind thirteen-episode commitment in February 2007. Upon its pick-up, it also became Levitan and Lloyd's first project under their production banner, Levitan-Lloyd Productions. Grammer and Heaton were also confirmed to star in the series in the same month. It was renamed Back to You in April 2007 because Pittsburgh has a real life Channel 4 Action News. (The show was originally to be set in Buffalo, New York, which, at least in name, did not have an Action News station, but Lloyd felt that having a major-market news personality fall from Los Angeles (market #2) to Buffalo (market #49) was implausible. This was despite the fact that several prominent Los Angeles news anchors, including John Beard, Nick Clooney, Maria Genero, Kevin O'Connell, Brian Kahle, and John Stehlin have all moved from the Los Angeles to the Buffalo markets; all but Clooney and Stehlin remain there to this day, though Kahle has since died, and Stehlin has moved to an even smaller market in neighboring Erie, Pennsylvania.) The series was officially greenlit on May 11, 2007.James Burrows, who had directed all the episodes of the show joined the staff as an executive producer in June 2007.
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