New images from the Frasier revival are here, along with a premiere date
Get a first look at the Frasier revival, premiering October 12 on Paramount+
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Ladies and gentlemen, Frasier “has reentered the building.” The long-awaited revival of Kelsey Grammer’s beloved sitcom is finally on the horizon, premiering October 12 on Paramount+. For some real nostalgia, you can also watch the first two episodes live on broadcast television on October 17 on CBS. (That counts as both corporate synergy and a way to bulk up a strike-anemic fall schedule, for those of you playing along at home.)
The new series “follows Frasier Crane in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge and an old dream or two to finally fulfill” (per The Hollywood Reporter). Boston was, of course, the character’s city of origin, as he was first introduced on Cheers before moving to Seattle for his own spin-off.
The entire revival is a mixture of the fresh and the familiar: at the center of it is Grammer as ol’ Dr. Crane, who will be joined in guest appearances by Bebe Neuwirth (as his ex-wife Dr. Lilith Sternin) and Peri Gilpin (as his former radio producer Roz). Neither David Hyde Pierce (Frasier’s brother Niles) nor Jane Levees (Daphne) will return for the show.
Meanwhile, there’s a host of new faces, including Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier’s firefighter son Freddy; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s “old friend” turned university professor Alan; Toks Olagundoye as Olivia, Alan’s colleague and head of the university’s psychology department; Jess Salgueiro as Freddy’s roommate Eve; and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew David, per THR.
Click on to see some first-look images from the upcoming series.
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I’m just here for the salad tossing, thanks!
Im here for the eggs
With jelly or syrup?
For once, you’re telling us about salad tossing when it’s apropos.
I knew my time would come!
Came for the tossed salad and fertilized eggs. Am not disappointed.
Frasier isn’t what I think of when I think tossed salad. Freddy Crane, though? Well he can scramble MY eggs. (Sorry, Murry. I know you made a tossed salad joke first)
I know Kelsey is problematic and honestly so are parts of both Frasier and Cheers but for the most part they are quite comforting and wonderful (as far as laugh track sitcoms go). That said, no Niles? Have they lost their MINDS?!
His chuckle after “I’ve got you pegged” in the new theme is certainly making me worried for Freddy’s character arc.
There’s a new Fraiser?
“Neither David Hyde Pierce (Frasier’s brother Niles) nor Jane Levees (Daphne) will return for the show”Oh. Carry on.
John Mahoney (Martin) and Moose/Enzo (Eddie) also not returning.
Death will do that to you.
The show isn’t called Niles or Daphne.
“Toks Olagundoye as”Stop right there; I’m in.
I can close my eyes and pretend I’m watching a talky DuckTales episode.
For me, it’s the dream that The Neighbors got more than 2 seasons.
Oh shit, I had assumed this was quietly cancelled.
I was hoping this had quietly died.This is the exact face I made when I saw this article:
There will be no blaming mother today!
Well the first still looks like “Frasier” back at “Cheers” while the rest look like “Frasier” meets “Friends” as envisioned by a kid who never saw an episode of “Friends” but watched “The New Girl” and “How I Met Your Mother” and heard they were “Friends” ripoffs. Those young white bros look as generic as white bros get in 2023. As a big “Frasier” fan who owns the entire series on DVD and binged it all again during the lockdown I have to say, haaard pass.
Inter-title Card: A SIGN OF ALCOHOLISMFADE-IN:David: Hey Uncle Frasier, where can I put my beer sign?Frasier looks visibly annoyed, audience laughs uproariously.
Looking FanTAStic! Tan, rested, and ready. Tally-ho!
I was a huge Frasier and Cheers fan so I’m looking forward to this, no matter how it turns out.
You say that now but I was a Murphy Brown fan once too.
Yeah that had so much potential.
Wait this hasn’t come out yet. I figured it came and went like most of the other terrible revivals.
This does indeed have the stench of cancelled-halfway-through-first-season about it.
Good God, Kelsey.
Frazier was about as good as a laugh track comedy gets, which ain’t saying much, but I couldn’t care less about this reboot, so I’m jus there to ask, is there anyone who doesn’t know the bonkers crazy violent shit that happened in Kelsey Grammer’s real life before he was a star? It’s absolutely awful.
Death rattle for network TV as it strip mines some of its worst “successful” sitcoms. Now that Kelsey is older than Mr. Mahoney was (RIP, he was great), we’ll pepper the show with young and “relatable” characters. Here’s the problem, the IP was flawed to begin with. The character of Frasier on Cheers was fascinating – a messed up intellectual know it all in a sea of people who would have been impressed as hell with him if they cared to, which they didn’t. How could we not be curious about the damage to ostensibly the most “together” character on the show, that he felt the need to hang out hours on end with a bar full of barely functional alcoholics? There was Bebe Neuwirth’s Lility, arguably more of a smarty pants than even Frasier, whose monotone was pitch perfect for the ability to humanize Dr. Crane… “Frasier, I am not a robot.” (!!!) On his own show, they threw it all out, sent him packing to the other side of the country, gave him a brother we’d never heard of (Niles, who was not only a better actor but who played it straighter than Frasier), a Cheers surrogate cast of sassy lovable less educated people (pop & Roz and a failed will they/won’t they Daphne) who could teach the titular character a Lesson A Week.
Changing Frasier from a mysterious, mostly lovable, damaged intellectual to a dandified belligerent snobby Get Off My Lawner may have been more in line with Kelsey’s politics, but the entire Frasier series was merely tired and self indulgent sitcom tropes disguised as Highbrow Entertainment.
I won’t be watching (or listening).