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Another deed sitcom is making an epic comeback. Frasier has been revived astir 2 decades aft it went disconnected the aerial aft 11 seasons for a reboot amusement connected Paramount+. Kelsey Grammer is returning arsenic divorced psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane, who was introduced arsenic a supporting quality connected Cheers before helium got his ain show.
Frasier aired from 1993 to 2004 and became one of the astir beloved sitcoms of each the time. So you tin stake that the hype for the revival bid is real. From the premiere day to the cast, here’s everything you request to cognize astir the Frasier reboot.
Kelsey Grammer successful the ‘Frasier’ reboot (Photo: CBS)
When Does The Frasier Reboot Premiere?
The archetypal 2 episodes of the Frasier reboot volition premiere connected October 12. The play volition tally for 10 episodes that driblet each Thursday, with the finale acceptable to aerial connected December 7. If the amusement is successful, Paramount could renew it for a 2nd season.
Where Will The Frasier Reboot Air?
Paramount+ volition beryllium location to the Frasier reboot. Fans tin ticker the caller episodes of the revival, arsenic good arsenic the full archetypal show, connected the CBS streaming service. As a dainty to fans, CBS is airing the archetypal 2 episodes of the reboot connected broadcast TV connected Tuesday, October 17, 5 days aft the caller bid debuts connected Paramount+.
Toks Olagundoye, Kelsey Grammer, and Nicholas Lyndhurst successful the ‘Frasier’ reboot (Photo: CBS)
Who Is In The Frasier Reboot?
Kelsey Grammer is starring the Frasier reboot with caller and aged faces. The caller formed members include Jack Cutmore-Scott arsenic Frasier’s lad Freddy, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s assemblage friend-turned-college prof Alan Cornwall, Toks Olagundoye arsenic Frasier’s enactment workfellow Olivia, Jess Salgueiro as Freddy’s roommate Eve, and Anders Keith arsenic Frasier’s nephew David Crane.
Several archetypal formed members are making impermanent appearances successful the reboot. That includes Bebe Neuwirth as Frasier’s ex-wife Dr. Lilith Sternin and Peri Gilpin as Frasier’s erstwhile vigor shaper Roz Doyle. On the flip side, David Hyde Pierce, who played Frasier’s member Niles, and Jane Leeves, who played Niles’ woman Daphne, did not motion connected to bash the reboot.
“David fundamentally decided helium wasn’t truly funny successful repeating the show of Niles,” Kelsey told PEOPLE in November 2022.
Frasier reboot (Photo: CBS)
In June 2022, David told Vulture, “I don’t person a beardown feeling that there’s thing much that I can deliberation of that I request to accidental astir the character. But I’m not a writer. And I deliberation if they came up with immoderate mode of telling the stories that intrigued me, past I mightiness think, ‘Oh, I could spell backmost and bash that.’ But successful presumption of my ain thrust and interest, no. I emotion those characters, but I don’t miss them.” He besides said astir the reboot, “I judge it tin beryllium done without me, excessively — uncovering caller stories to tell, successful the aforesaid mode that Frasier did aft Cheers.”
Another archetypal formed subordinate missing from the reboot is John Mahoney, who died successful 2018 astatine the property of 77. John played Fraiser’s father, retired constabulary detective Martin Crane.
Watch Is The Premise Of The Frasier Reboot?
Paramount said successful a property merchandise that the 2023 Frasier series “follows Frasier Crane successful the adjacent section of his beingness arsenic helium returns to Boston with caller challenges to face, caller relationships to forge and an aged imagination oregon 2 to yet fulfill.”
Kelsey teased his character’s travel successful the reboot to PEOPLE last year. “He’s our brave small worker that continues connected successful life, uncovering caller challenges and a caller emotion and caller radical and a caller metropolis and worldly similar that,” Kelsey said. “I’m truly precise excited astir it, and we’ll surely ever grant the past. We person to grant the information that John Mahoney died and that Martin is nary longer with us. We’ll beryllium dealing with that for sure.”
Kelsey besides confirmed that the reboot volition code Niles and Daphne’s absences. “We’ll surely beryllium responsive astir the information that determination was a member and such,” the histrion explained. “But the caller satellite for Frasier is 1 of caller friendships — and immoderate caller twists and turns helium didn’t cognize were inactive successful there.”
In an interrogation with TODAY in Feb. 2023, Kelsey explained that fans volition spot a full caller broadside to Frasier successful the reboot. “It’s a caller world. It’s a caller life. Frasier’s going backmost to Boston to enactment himself backmost successful a spot wherever helium didn’t consciousness similar helium rather made it. He wants to consciousness similar helium conquered it again,” helium said.
