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I'd rather just watch Grammer and Heaton trade barbs in the newsroom. [21 Sep 2007, p.71]
80
There's no such thing as a sure thing when it comes to new TV series, but Back to You is as close as it gets.
80
Fox's Back to You is back to TV comedy basics: multiple cameras, live audiences but, mostly, laughs.
80
Grammer and Heaton slip easily into characters who won't be easily mistaken for Frasier Crane or Debra Barone, the writing's professional, the supporting cast dependable (and in the case of Fred Willard, another "Raymond" veteran, dependably hilarious).
80
This is one of those comedies in which the actors’ and writers’ skills are so sharp that the whole enterprise feels effortless.
80
You just can't get through two minutes of Back to You without a belly laugh.
80
Back to You doesn't have a mandate to be inventive--to try new comedic beats or to attempt daring flights of absurdity. It just needs to be uninventive in a snappy way, a feat readily accomplished.
75
Still, even when Back is faltering, you flash back to the skill of its stars and to moments when the show succeeds in making you laugh out loud.
75
The snap, crackle and pop of witty dialogue well delivered. That is the consistently amusing, escapist pleasure of Back to You.
75
What really makes the opening episode work, though, is the chemistry between Grammer--as Chuck Darling, an egotistical newsman who has returned to Pittsburgh after his career stalled--and Heaton as his uptight longtime co-anchor, Kelly Carr, who isn't thrilled by his return.
