"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and laugh, then you’re going to like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody […]

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"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and laugh, then you’re going to like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody […]

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