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Kelsey Grammer Wants to Give Sitcom Girlfriends A Proper Send-Off
Goodnight, Seattle... and hello, Boston.
While Paramount+ hasn't booked a premiere day conscionable yet for its highly anticipated Frasier revival, the streamer did corroborate accumulation is officially underway for the Kelsey Grammer vehicle.
"Shooting successful beforehand of a unrecorded workplace assemblage successful Los Angeles," a Feb. 1 announcement read, "the caller bid follows Frasier Crane successful the adjacent section of his beingness arsenic helium returns to Boston, Mass., with caller challenges to face, caller relationships to forge and an aged imagination oregon 2 to yet fulfill. Frasier has re-entered the building!"
The announcement besides featured an representation of Frasier's level summons revealing the caller setting. It marks a acquainted instrumentality for the character, who got his commencement successful the aforesaid metropolis successful Cheers' 3rd play premiere backmost successful 1984. Grammer past went connected to prima successful his ain titular spinoff pursuing the archetypal show's decision successful 1993.
Frasier ran for 11 seasons done 2004 and starred Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, John Mahoney and Dan Butler. Throughout its Seattle-set run, the NBC sitcom received a record-breaking 37 Emmys—including 5 back-to-back Outstanding Comedy Series wins and 4 for Grammer, himself.
While nary 1 other from Cheers starred successful the archetypal Frasier, astir of the main formed members did popular up arsenic impermanent stars (aside from Kirstie Alley's Rebecca Howe), with Bebe Neuwirth's Lilith Sternin adjacent becoming a recurring character. While specified speculation, possibly the aforesaid could beryllium existent for the update owed to the Boston connection.
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The 2023 revival, which was officially picked up successful October, volition besides prima Nicholas Lyndhurst, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Anders Keith, Jess Salgueiro and Toks Olagundoye arsenic a caller acceptable of characters, with Hollywood seasoned James Burrows directing the archetypal 2 episodes.
Grammer antecedently revealed his reaction to the caller series' archetypal episode, telling The Talk successful July, "We're successful the last stages of the last publication for the archetypal occurrence of Frasier, and it looks beauteous good. I've had a mates of runs done it, and I cried. So, you know, I'm happy."
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