Then Los Angeles Times staff writer Martin Miller wrote about the upcoming show, "Back to You, " a multi-camera sitcom created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, and cautioned that the format could slowly sink into oblivion if the networks didn't see results.
With "Oblivion, " Universal made the increasingly rare move in Hollywood of producing a costly movie that isn't a sequel or based on a well known comic book, novel or videogame.