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Premiere date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Airs: Wednesdays @ 8pm on Fox
In the ’90s, the local TV news scene in Pittsburgh was dominated by one team: CHUCK DARLING (Kelsey Grammer) and KELLY CARR (Patrica Heaton). They had that elusive quality all news teams need: chemistry… at least on-screen. Off-screen, Chuck was a bit of a self-centered […]
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Ask a star a leading question and you can see a whole press conference going south right before your eyes. That seemed about to happen at this summer’s press tour session for "Back To You," the new Fox sitcom that debuts Wednesday night, with Kelsey Grammer of "Frasier" and Patricia Heaton of "Everybody Loves Raymond" as bickering local news anchors.
A reporter listed shows like "Seinfeld" and "Friends" where the stars had washed their hands of sitcoms afterward, and asked, "If you could explain to us why you guys seem to have a different perspective, where you say, ‘Well, we’re happy to come back to (sitcoms) even though we’ve been on these classic shows that were so successful’?"
Grammer looked down from the stage with an expression of disdain familiar to anyone who’d ever seen him as Frasier Crane. "That’s what you’re writing?"
"That’s what I’m asking," replied the reporter. "It depends on […]

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YIKES. More talked-about new shows hit the airwaves on Wednesdays than any other night of the week, including the new "Bionic Woman" (left).
ABC unveils its critic’s pet series "Pushing Daisies" on 8 p.m. on Oct. 3, and I’m waiting to hear whether it makes a huge splash or a tiny little cult-audience plink. This is the dreamy, sweet, weird series about a guy (Lee Pace) who can revive the dead with a touch - but his second touch kills them for good. This gets a little tricky when he revives his childhood sweetheart (Anna Friel). Barry Sonnenfeld’s gentle weirdness is all over this show, but I’m not sure if audiences will go for it.
Audiences will be all over "Private Practice," the "Grey’s Anatomy" spinoff ABC debuts at 9 on Sept. 26. Kate Walsh’s Addison moves to a new clinic where her co-workers include Tim Daly, Taye Diggs, Amy Brenneman, Paul […]

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Wikipedia tells me that Kelsey Grammer has played Frasier Crane for 20 years, and been nominated for Emmys with the character for three different shows (including a guest spot on "Wings"). So viewers could have a hard time thinking of him as someone else in Fox’s new sitcom "Back To You." But maybe not.
Grammer’s new character, Chuck Darling, has borrowed a lot from Frasier, especially witty repartee and neurotic mannerisms. He’s dropped most of the intellectual pretentions, but he’s still a preening jerk, which makes for good combat with Patricia Heaton ("Everybody Loves Raymond") as co-anchor Kelly Carr.
The news show franchise still works, too. We’ve all seen videos where news anchors laugh at the wrong moment or swear when they think they’re off-air, and the  show gets plenty of laughs from the quick transitions between smiling faces on-camera and mean-spirited back-stabbing backstage. Along with snappy writing, the good cast and […]

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