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FRIDAY 8:30 PM: Fox’s 2007-2008 primetime season sitcom Back To You starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as bickering TV co-anchors has been cancelled. Veteran ‘Til Death starring Brad Garrett has been ordered by the network. I’ve just been told that the network’s comedy pilot The Inn (20th Century Fox TV/ Reveille/Principato-Young Entertainment) is officially picked up to series now. Just before this decision, the pilot was given the go-ahead by Fox to meet writers. So they can hire now. Directed by Jason Bateman, the pilot ”screened best,” I was told earlier today. The network liked it from the start, even though its initial script was deemed “unreadable” by some people whose opinions I respect. Writer/Exec Prod: Abe Higgenbotham. Stars: Niecy Nash, Jerry O’Connell, Molly Stanton, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jolene Purdy, Brando Eaton.
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This show is great! I don’t understand! ARGHHH!!!
NOOOOO! Fox, you suck. This show is good. And it was the only show I watched on your network. Now I guess I’ll go back to never watching Fox again until football season.
This is such a great show! Does FOX even have a good reason for canceling it and renewing a show that did worse in ratings? They should have kept this on AFTER American Idol so it good have those strong ratings like it did for those two episodes in February!
I’ve had no faith in FOX for such a long time because they forget that other shows than just American Idol and House have potential. This only reconfirms my belief that FOX isn’t worth my time unless Back to You is renewed! But this show would probably do better on other networks.
What is with FOX, they treat sitcoms like crap. They treated Married with Children like crap at the end (not even giving it a series finale), and now they do this. WHy did FOX even pick this show up if they were going to do this. ATTENTION NBC, PICK THIS SHOW UP NOW. You lost Scrubs, TAKE A SHOT ON THIS.
I am not happy with this decision at all. I thought this show was awesome!!!
Back To You was a brilliant show. Definatly the funnier multi-cam on TV. Since February it has gotten much better. Please reconsider, or another network pick it up, please.
BTW, apparently Back to You was going to start producion on season 2 on Tuesday. It’s probably just as unexpected for the cast/crew as it is for us.
BACK TO YOU had three things going for it – GRAMMER, FRED WILLARD & HEATON and very little else. The writer staff seemed like they went on strike in August. The other newsroom characters were pointless – the writers left them dead to serve no purpose beyond the pilot. If you’re going to need to revamp that much of the show, might as well start over.
My favorite TV show was “Back to You”!!!
It was funny I can’t believe that FOX would keep
Til Death which is NOT funny and cancel “Back to You”
It was not given a chance they started out with about two shows then repeated them over and over then no show because of the strike. It had better ratings than Til Death..I hope some other network picks it up.
Everyone I got to watch “Back to You” loved it.
Who’s bright idea was it to cancel the show.
For a network I like a lot, they sure make some dumb decisions. This is the worst thing they’ve done since cancelling Arrested Development, and I not totally over that! I invested in this show for a season, remember hearing about it in pilot season, and knew I wanted to watch it. And now all of that for nothing! When you have three sitcom vets on a decent show, that should be enough already. What does a show have to do to make it? They don’t cancel the NBC comedies and they get even less viewers! WHY? WHY do these things happen?!
NBC: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
Grab Back To You and put it on Thursdays!
Earl / Back To You / Office / 30 Rock
(Or some combination thereof…)
All about the brand for FOX at this point. Til Death, while not great, can be random enough at times, and seems more on brand.
Fringe, Dollhouse, etc plus Prison Break, 24, the harder stuff, this is what it’s about. Comedy has to be a shade of that. Arrested now might have worked with Family Guy’s lead in. This ain’t no time machine.
Who is FOX doing deals with? They worked on a certain show…
Creatively, think more like Hammer Films for a while. Hey. ABC leans into its strengths.
However. CBS and NBC do indeed suck.
According to TV Week: CBS has been given episodes to screen. CBS has been considering starting a new night of comedy in addition to it’s Monday night line-up. I think Back To You would be a great addition to the network.
CBS announces its fall line-up this Wednesday May the 14th.
I hope that another network takes advantage of Fox’s stupid treatment of Back To You. This show is really funny and Kelsey and Patricia alone make the show worth watching. I don’t get it – they leave ’til death on which is garbage and drop kick this show? Ugh!
I agree. This is a good show with a lot of potential. It started off rocky, but improved. I never cared for Heaton (and think the show would ROCK with somebody else like Debra Messing, Jennifer Aniston, or the chick who played Phoebe on Friends).
I agree that this would be a better fit on CBS or on the Thursday night NBC line-up.
Fox is not the network for this show.
Why all the ‘Til Death bashing? It is a shame that Back to You has been canceled. ‘Til Death is a very funny show and deserves some respect! It all comes down to economics, Back to You was more costly to produce. The whole industry has suffered from not giving the shows enough time to develop creatively and grow an audience. So quit bashing ‘Til Death and concentrate showing how much you think Back to You should be given a chance. Brad Garrett and the rest of the show ‘Til Death are great, have you seen the new guy J.B.? The show has gotten better and better.
The reason the ratings are poor is because they never show more than 3 episodes in a row. If they started airing the show every week, more people would watch it.
A great comedy finally shows up and no one gives it a cchance. We can keep horrible reality shows and bad ccomedys but not a top notch show like back to you. If it wasn’t for Family Guy and the Simpsons, I wouldn’t watch fox.
I feel the same way as everyone else! Back to You is one of the shows I always watch or DVR. I would love to continue to watch it on another channel!!! I actually hate that new Christina Applegate show and can’t believe that is renewed!!!
I beg to differ Anonymous(or I work somewhere for Fox or the show itself). However, you are right to point out how important it is for us to rally around the show we love. Thank-you and enjoy ‘Til death along with the other three of you.
Back To You was an insipid waste of time. Over-priced stars spouting 3rd-rate comedic dialogue. What’s frightening is not that ‘Til Death was renewed, but that some many people here making comments thought that BTY was entertaining. No wonder most of TV is crap. Well BTY fans, you always have 2-1/2 Men.
Even if Patricia Heaton showed up on BTY to just read the yellow pages she would be a million times funnier than Jennifer Aniston. Messing and Kudrow are great actresses but I would never see them fit to play Kelly Carr! Patty is just perfect for the role and has incredible chemistry with Grammer.
renew “Back to you”. You didn’t give it a chance. I recorded this show every week on my DVR. I really love watching Kelsey Grammer. It was the writers strike that really hurt the show. The story was just starting to get good.
Damn you fools. Bring “Back to You” back on…
Maybe the show would have done better if they hadn’t spent so much time focusing on the daughter issue. When the show was in the newsroom, it was hilarious. When it focused on the daughter issue, it wasn’t worth watching. As much as I liked the cast, the writers were more intent on shoving the daughter issue down our throats (especialy in the past few episodes) than taking advantage of that cast, so quite frankly this cancellation doesn’t bother me nearly as much as I would have thought.
Back to You is one of two sitcoms my wife and I watch this season (Ugle Betty being the other). It has a great cast, good writers, great storylines and is well done. With all those things going for it, it’s no wonder Fox is taking it off the air. Another network should pick up the series – it’s quality entertainment.
I akways liked Fox but they really,really,really screwed up here. One it is a digrace to let them be told the way they did. Two, with all the real crap on TV, reruns everynight from years ago (Like we didn’t notice) and they cancell one of the very best shows, ever…..Wake up Fox…..Another network needs to step up to the plate and do themselves some good.