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HOLLYWOOD WEBSITE DEADLINE is reporting that Kelsey Grammer is in talks for a Frasier reboot, but that the new show could be in a different city with a different cast.
Grammer played Dr. Frasier Crane in the much-loved Seattle-based show that ran for 11 seasons until 2004. Frasier won a total of 37 Emmy and a legion of fans before it came to and end.
Grammer was executive producer of the show and Deadline reports that he is currently meeting with writers who are pitching different concepts for a potential follow-up series.
Unlike a number of recent comedy revivals that have returned with original cast members, it’s believed that the Fraiser reboot is more likely to return in a new city with the main character the only link to the previous show.
Actor John Mahoney, who played Marty Crane in the show, died earlier this year aged 77.
Despite its standalone popularity, Frasier itself was a spin-off show with Grammer’s character being one of the members of the ensemble cast that made up 80s sitcom Cheers.
Grammer and TV network CBS have not commented on the rumours that the character is returning.
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I love Frasier..but leave it now.It ended perfectly.
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne: Cheers was Funnier
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne: Ah nostalgia is a drug eh?
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne: They said the exact same thing when Frasier started because Wings was such a disaster. But it worked. I would love to see them give it another go.
The casting agent who put Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce as brothers. Job done perfectly!
@Ajax Penumbra: It was actually David Hyde Pierce himself.. His family when watching Frasier always used to say to him that he looked like a young Frasier in Cheers. When he heard that they were doing a spin off of Frasier his agent got in contact with the show to explain the likeness of both actors and the producers of the show ended up writing the character Niles into the show.
@Travis: well that’s pretty fantastic!
Won’t be any good without Niles!!
Glad its a different cast, Maris was a poor actor in the original.
Definitely got more in it, unfortunately no Martin or Eddie though.
Great news looking forward to it
Please please please let this happen. One of the most hilarious intelligent comedies ever! Huge fan!
@Shane Cusack: for my birthday last year my daughter got me the complete box set 1 to 11 , one of the greatest gifts I ever received . Please please let this happen. It had no comparison, I agree niles should be in it and Daphne too. I’m sure Jane leeves wouldn’t turn it down. They could start it at the funeral of Martin, a nice tribute.
They should never have cancelled BOSS. that was easily the best show he ever starred in.
@Nicky O’Donnell: you get me to it… BOSS Fantastic show… Was gutted it was dropped… Poor ratings I heard…. How that could be is beyond me…
They should do a cheers reboot
Only with the same writers not a lover of reboots, but the brain is saying did frazier marry? How will they deal with a father who is dead? I could go on and on and on
He didn’t get on with the other cast members because he was in the throws of addiction. He has had a pretty tragic up bringing too
Great, Frasier was very funny.
Comedy gold
Quality actor. One of the few with principles in La La Land.
Watch it on chanel 4 with my dad every morning…. priceless
Her lips said no, but her eyes said “read my lips”.
Never watched it,well some of us had to work to keep the Irish tax man happy,and not a fan of American comedy anyway the British comedy shows are superior
@Liam Ward: that 24 hour a day job must of been a killer. It’s a wonder you had time to set up a Facebook account.
@Mick Power: Was your average 12 hour day work mick.however came through it happily retired now
@Liam Ward: Generally agree with the superiority of British comedy vs American however Frasier was exceptionally well written and performed with great comic timing. Very intelligent compared to the normal dumb dross that passes for comedy in The US.
@Liam Ward: You don’t sound happily retired Victor..
@Liam Ward: How can you say other shows are superior if youve never watched Frasier?
Oh dear lord this has made my day. The funniest, greatest comedy show of all time. Far superior to anything that came before or after, didn’t need the stereotypical gag for rude, it was the intellectual brilliance of Grammer combined with Hyde pearse comic brilliance ,the tough yet lovable sexy airhead English leeves, the straight average joe dad who while proud of his sons hated their first wife’s and was disappointed they didn’t do normal men things.
@dec dunne: ROZ mmmm !
I can’t stand re-boots by any formers stars of any kind of soap shows – movie, TV or radio kind.
It’s like they’re saying “I’ve lost the fortune I made and now I need to make another fortune from suckers”.
No way.
@Canny Jem: at least those suckers are big-shot TV executives with more money than sense!
@Canny Jem: If its done properly, this could be a continuation of Frasier’s story rather than a re-boot of the same show. If they just try and copy the old show then that would not be good – but Grammer is clever than that (hopefully)
Was Frasier not on NBC, not CBS?
Back in the 90′s they had Frasier, Seinfeld, Friends and ER all at the same time.
Will be Frasier and his son Frederick as main cast
I loved Frasier and still think the first few seasons were terrific TV. It had gone off the boil by the end and they did the right thing by ending it.
‘m not sure they should reboot it unless they can come up with another fantastic ensemble cast. Martin, Niles, Daphne and Ros were all great characters in their own right and helped make the show the classic it is.
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