Oh baby, we hear Paramount Plus has officially picked up that Frasier reboot
Frasier reboot and scrambled eggs all over Paramount Plus’ face. What is a boy to do?
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It’s happening, Crane-heads and Frasier-fanatics! Deadline says Paramount+ has officially picked up the long-in-the-works Frasier reboot, which apparently hadn’t been a sure-thing up until now despite the fact that Paramount+ has been talking about it for over a year. We know the show will be about Kelsey Grammer’s Frasier living in a different city and working with a new cast of characters, but that’s about all we know.
And if it feels like we’ve been hearing about a potential Frasier reboot for a decade, that’s only partially because the pandemic has made time into less of a flat circle and more of a gelatinous pile. It really has been a few years since everybody started talking about this, going back to 2018 when Grammer essentially started yelling “Frasier reboot” out into the void in hopes of someone hearing him. Paramount+ eventually heard him, years later, and now here we are: The Frasier reboot (where he’ll be “rich beyond his dreams”) is coming to Paramount+.
One arguable hiccup in all of this is that it seems pretty definitive that the old Frasier crew won’t be joining the man himself in the reboot. Deadline says that nobody else from the original cast is expected to be a series regular, but they might “make guest appearances”—like what the old Cheers gang did on the original show. David Hyde Pierce said something similar earlier this year, suggesting that his character wasn’t really so integral to the show that they can’t do it without him and that he’s not so desperate to do more Frasier that he needs to be a part of it. Still, it sounds like he’d be more than happy to stop by if the people making the new show need him for whatever reason.
The new Frasier—Frasier 2.0, Super Frasier, whatever you want to call it—doesn’t have a premiere date yet, but they just now got the green light to start making it, so it might be a bit still.
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This is still his best work
Bebe Glazer or we riot.And, of course, Niles or we riot.And, yes, Roz or we riot.
Honestly not sure who watched the original Fraiser and thought “This would be great if it was just Kelsey”. He was the least interesting part of the show, despite his name being the title. The fact that no one else was game for anything other than a guest appearance speaks volumes for the quality. Or maybe they all think Grammar is an asshole
Yeah, he was very much the straigh(-ish) man in a cast full of bananas. At least straight man compared to Niles, Bebe, Roz, Eddie, et al. Even Maris, a character we never saw (and could possibly never see, even if she were in front of the camera).
I saw Fraiser less as a straight man trope, and more like the ‘insufferable genius’ archetype. Where the humor comes from taking him down a peg. This snobby know-it-all being put upon by his family, his colleagues, his listeners, until he snaps! Or majorly embarrasses himself. The whole city of Seattle seemed to spite his ego, and that was the fun of it.
I expect that the producers will look to create the same sort of dynamic, Frazier as the pompous character that gets deflated by the rest of the cast. It’s entirely possible to find new actors that can fill those roles. The real test will be creating those roles on paper in a way that works as well as the original.
Maybe this show will feature Maris on-camera, but all the other characters will always remain just out of view.
Oh, I pretty much lived for Fraiser’s bombastic overreactions, so he was the most interesting to me. But I definitely have my suspicions about the revival’s quality.
It’s the ski lodge episode all over again!
Agree to disagree – he’s incredible in the role. Simpsons said it best – “the pie gag is only funny when the sap’s got dignity”
I’d rather see a live-action Sideshow Bob series. Can we have that instead?
Oh cousin Merle REALLY!
Now now. You know HappyInParaguay “ain’t been quite right” lately.
Tell them they’ll live to regret this.
YOU’LL LIVE TO REGRET THIS- oh, thanks a lot, now I look crazy.
I hope in this series Frasier owns a giant mech which he pilots to defend the Earth from aliens and comets and shit. And in the season finale, Niles reappears and he and Frasier must save humanity by joining their mechs together and learning to cooperate.
Both he and Niles mechs were made by their father as the ultimate police robots and the AI assistant for them was created using the brain wave patterns of Eddie the Dog. Roz also gets a mech that has boob missiles. I think we should call it Fraiszinger Z
And a weird half ‘n half hermaphrodite villain?
“Frasier, couldn’t you have thought of a more civilized, age-appropriate docking mechanic when you commissioned these metallic montrosities?”
Title card:GUNDAMMERUNG
Don’t do it if you can’t get both Crane boys back
Can’t believe we had two awesome Nileses in 90s sitcoms. We were truly blessed.
The Niles Supremacy
Certifiable. And no matter what his credentials I don’t care for him wearing the uniform…
Fuck I love that movie.I rewatched it recently on a wet Sunday afternoon and damn it holds up.
What was the other one?
Not really surprised that David Hyde Pierce isn’t interested since, from my understanding, he does not care for Kelsey Grammar.
Kelsey Grammer undeniably sucks, but they’re magic on screen together as the Crane boys.
The new Frasier—Frasier 2.0, Super Frasier, whatever you want to call it—I’d like to nominate Frasiest.
I feel like this is really funny, but I just don’t understand it.
It’s the passing resemblance between this guy and a younger Kelsey Grammer that makes it funny.
Thanks. Makes sense now.
At last, we’ll get the run-up to that scene from Cheers where Lilith and Franklin open up Frasier’s will only to find the results of Sam’s sperm count test!
Maris is hot!
So…the other (living) original cast members won’t be back except for maybe a special appearance? Pass.
I loved Frasier, but who watched it for just Fraiser Crane? Niles, Martin, Daphne, and Ros made the show
Yeah but who watched Cheers for Frasier Crane?
As long as people are giving him headaches and driving him nuts, Fraiser the character can work anywhere… However Fraiser the show, only works because of a specific cast chemistry that is not so easily replicated.
Frasier rich beyond his wildest dreams?Wouldn’t it make better comedic sense to have him losing most of whatever fortune he had (to something like a crypto scam) and now he’s having to adjust to living in a normal two bedroom apartment, shopping for his own groceries, dealing with public transport, etc.? Encounters with apartment neighbors or “regular people” could result in lines like “Frasier Crane? I heard about you. Heard you were dead.” or “You were on the radio? Wow, you must be really old!” would easily inflame his Jack Benny-esque ego.
Of course, all the women Fraiser date’s will be at least 25 years younger than him. It would be disgusting to watch him date women his own age, right?
The only reason to watch the original Frasier was the Frasier/Niles interplay. Everything else was largely insufferable, almost entirely because of Kelsey Grammer who, by the end of the series’ run, had gotten so into his own head that it was almost painful to watch him. The series finale, in particular, is such an egregious ego-stroke (watch that final soliloquy again, if you dare) that I’m amazed that the rest of the cast agreed to be in it.It’s a shame, because the first couple of seasons of Frasier were simply magnificent (“Oh, that’s just what we need, Niles – a fourth language!”). But if nuFrasier is centered around Grammer and a bunch of extras with some desultory cameos thrown in, this is going to be exactly as bad as we all expect it would be.
I hear the Blues are calling.
A very special episode with Bob ‘Bulldog’ Briscoe finally getting #metoo’d. God, I hated that character… except the one episode where he realized he was in love with Roz and she let him down while keeping his stupid masculinity in tact. That was oddly touching.
“One arguable hiccup in all of this is that it seems pretty definitive that the old Frasier crew won’t be joining the man himself in the reboot.”Ah, okay then, moving on, nothing to see here…
Hard to imagine doing this without Mahoney or Moose
I would watch this if it’s Grammer dressed up in his Beast costume, but still being a radio doctor or whatever he was. [Might be obvious that I’m not a real Frasier fanatic.]
This feels like a really dumb idea
I bet this reboot does a face plant just like Candace Bergen’s old fart Murphy Brown.