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UPDATED: Below are photos of an unscheduled upfront week event. Early this morning, because the sitcom Back to You had been cancelled, upset fans made a "memorial" in front of the gates at Fox studios. And the star of the sitcom Kelsey Grammar even posed for a picture beside it. (I just heard that Kelsey found out from my website Friday night that the show was cancelled!) I can confirm that "CBS has shown interest in Back To You.") There were candles, balloons, floral bouquets, over 30 sympathy cards, neckties in honor of "Chuck", and American flags. I was initially told that Fox security removed the memorial, but now fans are telling me it's still there and even being expanded. But everyone connected to the show, especially showrunner Steve Levitan, knew about it and appreciated it.
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So tipical of Fox. Let’s hope CBS gives the show a second chance. The writing had greatly improved lately and the show had finally hit its stride.Kelsey and Patricia never disappointed throughout the show’s short run. Their chemistry was terrific and timing impeccable.
it’s not Kelsey’s fault Kevin Reilly got slapped with the stupid stick!
bring back BACK TO YOU!
Back to You should have never been on Fox. Any chance another network could pick it up?
What a tragedy!!! That is seriously the best show in air. We let Arrested Development go, I can’t believe we didn’t learn from our mistakes. (sigh)
for the record the memorial still stands, and people have been adding to it throughout the day.
Hello! I think this was absolutely great that fans of the show in the LA area put this together. It just shows more that there is great support for this show. I hope CBS caught eye of this!
Also, I just wanted to let people here know that we are beginning a “Save Back to You” compaign. All you have to do is send bottled water to:
CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler
7800 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
I would love to see CBS pick up “Back to You” and it is so sad the treatment FOX gives its talent.
I never knew if it was going to be on week to week.
Fox programers should lose their jobs not the cast of “Back to You”.
It was good show that never really got a chance. I hope CBS gives it a second shot.
Brilliant idea for fans to show their support!!!! I can’t wait to get off work and add to the “memorial”. I hope Fox will take their viewers seriously. If not…… CBS help viewers out, we love the cast and the writing, PLEASE save this show!!!!
Don’t send bottled water. That is not environmental – waste of bottled water, waste of fuel to send it, etc.
Check out the “Save Back to You” Campaign & please join our efforts!!
Kelsey Grammar is a very talented man.
this would be a coup for CBS. like the golden calf just arrives on your doorstep. lucky lucky les.
les?…………….do the smart thing les.
BRING THIS SHOW BACK TO ME (YOU)!
This is one of the FEW shows I have consistently DVR’d this season….how ridiculously shortsighted of Fox to terminate it so soon, and if the rumor is true that CBS is considering picking it up, high kudos to them…I’m already DVR’ing much of their Monday night lineup, “Back to You” would make a FINE addition somewhere during the week!
How could anyone really gage a show’ potential in a writer’s strike? Stop/go. Network notes that spoiled a storyline that should have taken much more time to develop. Casting changes. And at very last minute, the Friday before upfronts begin on Monday, a dismissal notice. Classy, Fox, classy.
But class has never been your style. That’s for the other networks. Where hopefully this show will land and be appreciated. This is an Emmy caliber show and cast, if developed and protected. Why it ever landed on Fox to begin with is a mystery to me.
Peggy Lane O’Rourke
I really enjoyed this show and was always amazed it was on Fox. Hope it finds a home on a real network.
Such a shame. It’s so sad to see that Kelsey found out for himself online here and then to see him stand outside in front of the memorial.
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SIGN THE PETITION TO BRING IT TO CBS –
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We loved that show. I hope CBS picks it up. It had great laughs, esp. for a show that only was on a handful of times (first seasons are always a work in progress.) I was in awe of the supporting cast. They were perfect, I could forsee awards for them, they were just that strong. As strong as Kelsey and Patricia. Keeping my fingers crossed for another network to pick them up.
I am very saddened to hear that Kelsey Grammar heard of his show’s cancellation through Nikki Finke and not from his former network. My condolences on both the bad news and the tactless way in which it was handled.
Not that I am surprised because this is the same network that made one of its employees so stressed out / mad during the writers strike that the employee used his big black SUV to physically assault my show’s creator and former showrunner (Rene Balcer) around while legitimately picketing. Fox also covered for the employee, letting him hide behind the studio gates while the police were called.
Classy network, huh?
I am also seeing in the fan created memorial more evidence that network executives in fact do not know or appreciate what the heck they have or should do with it. Clearly there’s a demand for Back To You…why the execs can’t figure out how to make that pay is apparently beyond them.
The sooner these money-grubbing idiotic dinosaurs who run broadcast networks get ‘disintermediated’ from between the talent making shows and the viewers and fans who watch them, the better.
Wishing ‘Back To You’ fans all the best in their fight to get their show back.
S.E. Olson
Moderator & Law & Order: Criminal Intent Fan Liason
Fans For The WGA
http://community.livejournal.com/wga_supporters
I really hope CBS gives “Back to You” a chance. This show never had the chance to grow an audience at all, thanks to the writers strike interruptions and then FOX moving it all over the schedule so erratically. I think FOX was the wrong network from the beginning anyway. The show is funny and was just getting really good when FOX pulled the plug. I just don’t think FOX is a network that really cares about quality. They have American Idol, right? Who needs quality?
Awful show due to awful execution. A true waste of talent and time. Good riddance, stay gone.
I agree with Kev. This show was stale from the start. The tired newsroom set and hack joke writing is exactly why comedy is struggling today.
Wow, a memorial. I might of done that for the Ben Stiller show. Wait, how many years ago was that?
Kelsey’s show may have been canceled… But now he’s running for president!
Kelsey’s show may have been canceled… But now he’s running for president!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvLrRC567zQ
i didnt know the show was on fox until after i saw the first few episodes (i unbox and itunes everything) but i was SHOCKED that it would be on fox in the first place. it was much more CBS, or maybe NBC before they became (for the most part) the 99 cent store of networks.
yes cbs should save this show and let the creative talent behind it work their magic. fox isnt about great shows. its about crappy fast food and pushing the corporate/fascist agenday while pretending to be patriotic/religious. hardly the proper venue for such a great cast.
no way CBS picks the show up, they let jericho go away, and it was a lot better show then this
meh, it was only an all right show to begin with.
the writing was very very very hit and miss, most given eps it was really only cause of the performers that made it worth watching, but i do get the feeling they’d all be better served in other vehicles.
Felt like Spring training in baseball had just finished and the team was told to go home.So much
talent. The strike interruption,corporate dictates on changes,time slot,and still the cast was able to
capture the audience and hold them.Cancellation? I don’t get it but I’m just a viewer.The premiss worked,acting flawless.Funny with a nice feel to the overall flow.Someone will see the light and it will continue somewhere.And in five years this interrup-
tion will be a footnote on a suuccessful creation.
Hey guys! Thanks for the support! You can still sign the petition and go to our webisite (links are posted in my post above).
If you don’t want to send bottled water (I get the fact that it’s not environmentally friendly), you can always send your empty water bottles, or even the labels of the water bottles, with a little note on the back that says “Save Back to You!” Or, you can donate $1 to FOX – since the main reason FOX cancelled is the high budget costs, we can help them pay by donating $1. Now, we won’t really be helping to pay the costs of the show, but it’s a great way to show support for the show!!!!
Please, just $1 from every person is all it takes! You can easily send it through the mail, maybe with a letter to FOX. Please, continue to sign the petition, send water (or empties), send $1 to FOX, write a letter, make a phone call, whatever it takes to save this show, every bit of it counts. If you are interested, you can get an address to send to at the website: http://savebacktoyou.webs.com/
Anyone who says this show was stale hasn’t seen the last few episodes. They were brilliant! It was laugh out loud funny. It was really coming into its own. If CBS is smart they take it and laugh all the way to the bank! This WILL be the next great sitcom if they let it be.
i think back to you has alot more to offer than ’til death, which is given another season by FOX. I wouldn’t be suprised if CBS picks them up, they have a keen eye for good sitcoms (big bang theory, how i met your mother etc).
Watching this on the net in england – brilliant – i cannot help wondering what fox are playing at this was excellent. Sexy Patricia was fab , Kelsey hilarious a very sad situation.
I think will stick to cbs shows now, at least they give them a chance.
Fox is bent – all their good for is trash like Idol!
I pray Kelsey recovers in hospital very quick and I hope CBS takes up this great show.
Why is it that the good sitcoms are canceled…?
Excellent show. Even some of the side-storylines were funny (i.e. the raccoon in Kelly’s attic, the news reporter getting roughed up by animal mascots at a convention, etc). Kelsey has always been a great actor and Patricia really looks great, especially in a suit.
This is the first show in such a long time that I loved. It was never given a proper chance in lieu of the writer’s strike. I hope CBS picks up the show. It is sure to be a winner!
I am still so upset over the cancelling of Back To You. I hope so very badly that CBS will pick up this gem of a show. The entire cast was so great, always a funny storyline on every episode. There wasn’t an episode that wasn’t funny. PLEASE KEEP THIS WONDERFUL SHOW ON THE AIR !!!
any thing with kelsey grammer is awsome BRING BACK BACK TO YOU!!!!!!
I just came online to see when the new fall shows of “Back To You” would be airing and couldn’t believe it had been canceled! What was FOX thinking?! Well, they lost me as a viewer because this was the ONLY show I watched on FOX. I hope one of the other major networks picks it up. Back To You was the only sitcom and actually the only show I even watched last season, except for some reality shows. In my opinion, there was nothing else worth watching. I hope another network is smart enough to pick up this great show.
“Bring It Back!!!!!!!!!”