‘Frasier’ Reboot Being Explored By Kelsey Grammer & CBS TV Studios

Deadline ^ | July 25, 2018 | Nellie Andreeva

[Blue Highway]

I know he was going bald in the 80s on Cheers and that was 30+ years ago.

[Blue Highway]

So both Leeves and Mahoney had English accents in real life? I never heard a hint of it at all on the show. Pretty impressive.

[Blue Highway]

I figured he was late 70s on the show. Wow.

[Blue Highway]

Who is this bulldog you speak of? Frasier’s father’s dog was a terrier.

[warsaw44]

He was a bald headed character who had his own radio program at the same station Frasier broadcast from.

I think he was introduced fairly late in the series but really, the acting and shtick was so bad I am surprised you don’t remember him.

I’ve had to deal with a person professionally who I’d swear was the Bulldog character was based on.

Unpleasant.

[Maris Crane]

OMG...this is the best news I have read in a long time!!!

Now, I’ll read the article and hope there is a chance that Fras will return...…

I only read the headline.

[Blue Highway]

I think I only watched Frasier until the mid 90s. so I never saw the series in its entirety.

[MarkL]

WHY?!?!?!?!?!

More dollars, of course. The networks don’t make as much money on syndicated re-runs.

Just about the funniest TV episode of any show I ever saw was an episode of Frasier, where there’s a new radio station program manager, and Frasier wants to set him up with his father’s caretaker. It turns out that the new PM is homosexual, and thinks that Frasier is hitting on him.

Mark

[MarkL]

Adored David Hyde Pierce as Niles Frasier’s brother.

DHP's character had a comedy style reminiscent of Jack Benny's. Impeccable timing, he was incredibly funny NOT saying anything, just using his face and body to tell the story.

Mark

[MarkL]

So both Leeves and Mahoney had English accents in real life? I never heard a hint of it at all on the show. Pretty impressive.

Another impressive example is Hugh Laurie of "House." Check out an interview with him some time.

And then there the cute zombie/coroner from iZombie. She's a Kiwi, but you'd never know it. I only brought her up because she's gorgeous, and I have a huge crush. ;-)

Mark

[Political Junkie Too]

No, not really.

I read that Mahoney lost his accent years ago; he trained himself to lose it.

It's kind of the opposite of Jonathan Harris, who was raised with a New York Bronx accent, but trained himself to adopt a British-style accent in later life.

-PJ

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.)

The actors who played Niles and Bulldog were out of the closet and pretty open about it. Not sure to what degree Mahoney was. He did serve in the military though, he said he thought it was the right thing to do for his adopted country.