Posted on 07/25/2018 4:38:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Another beloved sitcom is plotting a possible return. I have learned that Frasier star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer is fielding interest to put together a new Frasier series.
Unlike the slew of recent revivals of comedy series with the original cast and original creative auspices, including Will & Grace, Roseanne and Murphy Brown, I hear that Frasier is envisioned as a reboot, likely set in a new city, with the title character, played by Grammer, as a possible link to the Emmy-winning 1993 series.
Psychiatrist Frasier Craine already made a cross-country move once. He was introduced on the Boston-set NBC hit Cheers before getting his own spinoff series, Frasier, on which he returned to his hometown of Seattle to start a new life as a radio host and to reconnect with his father and brother.
I hear Grammer is currently meeting with writers who are pitching different concepts for the potential followup series. If the producers settle on a writer and a premise, the project could move beyond exploratory stage. Reps for Grammer and CBS TV Studios declined comment.
Frasier, created by the late David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee, is one of the most celebrated comedy series of the 1990s and 2000s. The show, produced by Grammer’s Grammnet Prods. and CBS TV Studios’ predecessor Paramount Network Television, ran on NBC for 11 seasons, from 1993 to 2004, and starred Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, and the late John Mahoney.
Frasier set a record for the most Emmy Awards won by a scripted series at the time, 37, including five consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series.
With Paramount Network TV/CBS Studios, where his Grammnet was once based, Grammer produced such successful series as Medium, Girlfriends and spinoff The Game. As an actor, following his 20-year stint as Frasier Craine on Cheers and Frasier, Grammer has largely stayed on the drama side in TV, most recently with a starring role on the upcoming Fox legal drama Proven Innocent.
Isn’t he like one hundred and eleventy billion years old now?
They have no ideas. I would probably rather watch a reboot of Frasier than any of the dreck currently on. It was pretty clever.
I can barely remember it.
200 TV channels and nothing on TV.
I imagine it would be hard to be creative enough to come up with a show of interest since everything has already been done.
But the dad died, so I would miss him.
I liked Frasier. I think it was the last sit com that I liked. Never like Friends.
I would probably rather watch a reboot of Frasier than any of the dreck currently on.
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Agree.
Frasier is superb.
Everything about it.
“He likes to show the children his little Eddie.”
I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair.
With Grammer as producer would it offer a conservative perspective in programming?
Go ahead. Since I NEVER watch anything on CBS or any of the other networks I won’t miss it either way.
What a shame. I don’t recall that, but...
Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-American actor of stage, film, and television.
Born in Blackpool, England, Mahoney emigrated to the United States aged 18 and started his acting career on the stage in 1977, and moved into film in 1980. He was best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier, which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004. In addition to his film and television work, Mahoney also worked as a voice actor and was particularly passionate about his stage work on Broadway and in Chicago theatre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mahoney
One of the best weitten sitcoms ever. And I hope Grammer has success with it. He’s one of the few conservatives in the Hollywood cesspool.
Mahoney was gay,too. Also the actors who played Niles and Bulldog. (At least that’s what I heard when I was living in CA.)
Aren't we all tired of Frazier by now? They'd have to move him to a new city and a new setting -- and deal with his dad's death. They would probably have to kill off David Hyde Pierce as well to make the show watchable. It would be better to take what Kelsey's known for and shuffle the elements around a little, though I gather he may already have tried that with his unsuccessful series that nobody remembers.
Kelsey might do well with a reality show. He is one of Hollywood's rare Republicans, and like some others he's in the patriarchal mode -- with his herds and flocks and vines and wives and children and concubines. It could make for a great series, but I don't think he'd stoop to that level or be able to get his family to do so.
Frasier was and is hilarious, Friends sucked.
It was a rip off of the British sitcom “Coupling” which was hilarious.
David Angell, killed on American Airlines flight 11
Mahoney was actually born and raised closer to Manchester England than Jane Leeves, whose character was supposed to be from there.
The other fact was that Mahoney wasn't really old enough to be Grammar's father. Hence the cane.
We might also mention David Angell, one of the show's creators, who died in 9/11. The other two producers are still around.
Ha....we’re watching a Frasier episode now. But a reboot?
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