Kelsey Grammer returns to tv with Patricia Heaton in Back to You
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 on SpoilerBuzz.comKelsey Grammer, who will be forever known as Frasier Crane, will be back on the small screen with a new FOX television series starring himself and Patricia Heaton.
With the new Fox series “Back to You,” Grammer’s got a brand-new bag as the blusterous Chuck Darling, an anchorman whose big-market career and over-inflated ego take a hit when he winds up back at the struggling station in Pittsburgh where he started.
Of course, there’s one thing about Darling that’s remotely reminiscent of that other baritone-voiced guy — the man who plays him.
“We quite often, on a daily basis, we say, ‘OK, what would Frasier do here, and let’s do the opposite,’ ” says Steven Levitan, series co-creator with fellow “Frasier” alum Christopher Lloyd. “Even though there are going to be a lot of people who still think of him as Frasier, we hope in time that they will see him as Chuck Darling. I know we have.”
Explains Grammer: “Frasier was so complicated, so messed up, whereas Chuck is really a simpleton. He’s not the smartest guy in the world, smart enough to get by, not a bad storyteller, but he’s an egomaniac where Frasier was not.”
The series premieres tonight on FOX at 8pm. I am looking forward to seeing the chemistry between Kelsey Grammer and “Everybody Loves Raymond” alum Patricia Heaton.
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