Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm column: On the cutting edge - circa 1956.(Column)

Byline: Jonathan Storm

Sep. 18--Some old sitcom pros return to TV tomorrow at 8 p.m. on -- Fox???

The supposedly young and edgy network matches a pair of leads whose collective age is 101 in a comedy that seems like it was made in 1956.

You have to admire Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton for holding up their end of the bargain, even if the material in their show, Back to You, is such a drop from Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond, where they were last regularly seen.

As if WKRP in Cincinnati and The Mary Tyler Moore Show never existed, producers have set the show in the newsroom of Pittsburgh's fictional WURG, where you've got such ...

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