Conception
It was reported in January 2007 that Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton were in talks to lead the cast of the series, originally titled Action News, which only had a script commitment with 20th Century Fox Television at the time. The script was reportedly a hot commodity with numerous networks interested before Fox outbid the competition and gave it a blind thirteen-episode commitment in February 2007. Upon its pick-up, it also became Levitan and Lloyd's first project under their production banner, Levitan-Lloyd Productions. Grammer and Heaton were also confirmed to star in the series in the same month. It was renamed Back to You in April 2007 because Pittsburgh has a real life Channel 4 Action News. (The show was originally to be set in Buffalo, New York, which, at least in name, did not have an Action News station, but Lloyd felt that having a major-market news personality fall from Los Angeles (market #2) to Buffalo (market #49) was implausible. This was despite the fact that several prominent Los Angeles news anchors, including John Beard, Nick Clooney, Maria Genero, Kevin O'Connell, and John Stehlin have all moved from the Los Angeles to the Buffalo markets, and all but Clooney remain there to this day.) The series was officially greenlit on May 11, 2007. James Burrows, who had directed all the episodes of the show joined the staff as an executive producer in June 2007.
Produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Levitan-Lloyd Productions, the series premiered on September 19, 2007. The show aired on Wednesday nights at 8:00/7:00c on Fox, leading out 'Til Death, which features Heaton's former Everybody Loves Raymond co-star, Brad Garrett. The first episode rated a promising 9.44 million viewers for Fox.
On October 24, 2007 the show was picked up for an additional 11 episodes, bringing the total number of episodes to 24.
Also, despite the show's cancellation, and no guarantee of its renewal, Channel 4 in the United Kingdom picked up the show. The series premiered in the UK on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 on More4 at 9.30pm. It then moved onto Channel 4 on early morning weekdays comedy slot at 8:30.
Read more about this topic: Back To You, Production History
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