Frasier reboot hears the blues a-calling, announces production of season two
Peri Gilpin and James Burrows will return for more Fraiser
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A good radio therapist’s work is never done. To that end, Frasier is again accepting calls.
As announced earlier today, the second season of the Frasier reboot has begun production, and the old boy is bringing some old friends (no, not Niles). Peri Gilpin will return as Roz Doyle, and beefing up her role from last season, she will be a recurring character this season. Also rejoining the show is legendary Frasier director James Burrows, who filmed every episode of Cheers and Will & Grace. Burrows won’t take such a strong hand this time around, choosing to helm two episodes. In his words, he didn’t have “the energy to do them all… or the hair.”
Returning is the cast of Frasier’s current life in Boston. Jack Cutmore-Scott returns as his son, Freddy, and Nicholas Lyndhurst will again play Alan, Frasier’s old Harvard chum. However, there is no word as to whether fellow original cast member Bebe Neuwirth will bring the cold chill of Lilith back to set.
As for the quality of the reboot, the A.V. Club’s resident Frasier-cologist William Hughes thought it was “actually really funny.” He continues:
When it hits—when Grammer and Lyndhurst are firing zingers back and forth at each other, or Frasier and Freddy are taking serious swings at a lifetime of familial resentments, occasionally involving an air-hockey table—it really, truly hits. Having watched nine episodes of it so far, I’ll be happily tuning in for the tenth. And if we hear those renewal blues a-callin’, I’ll be tuning in for a second season, too.
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I find it odd that theyâre treating this as a separate show from the original Frasier considering that it not only has the same name and main character, it has the same intro(with the Boston skyline swapped for Seattle), the same end credits with the theme song playing over a dialogue-free scene, the act title cards, even the canned laughter.
Did you watch it? Itâs a different show.Yeah, itâs got the trappings. But itâs like eight notches less clever in the writing, the plotting, etc., and while Fraiser is the main character and God knows Kelsey Grammer is very good at being Frasier, it was the other characters that made that show what it was.This is nice for the echoes and the nostalgia. Itâs fun! But itâs a different show. Thereâs no âSki Lodgeâ here.That said, I am still hoping that in the series finale theyâll reference the Cheers gag of Samâs sperm count test getting mixed up with Frasierâs will.
I watched it and liked it, although not as much as the original.
Ok we but we all want Niles
We call ourselves Nile-ists.